The terrorists were still training and plotting in other nations, and drawing up more ambitious plans.
There have been reports that federal authorities were investigating the possibility that terrorists might have plotted to commandeer two more commercial flights on Sept. 11.
In cells and camps, terrorists are plotting further destruction and building new bases for their war against civilization.
In November, he said there was a dramatic increase in intelligence reports indicating that terrorists were plotting a spectacular attack.
Since Christmas Eve about a dozen flights have been grounded or delayed over fears that terrorists had plotted to commandeer jetliners.
The other component is emergency measures linked to intelligence that terrorists had plotted to commandeer planes.
But some Internet specialists wonder whether such projects fail to acknowledge the many other ways that terrorists can plot and communicate online.
Today, in well over 30 or 40 countries terrorists are plotting action loosely linked with this ideology.
"Right now, terrorists are plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate," Kiefer Sutherland would intone at the start of each episode.