washington as much as terroria the air waves. when you ve got a situation like this, we re told that the french definitely have a threat from northern africa, that there were also pakistani based threats, a german threat. this is sort of a multiple coming together. and then in the middle of all this, you get two audio messages from osama bin laden. i m told by senior officials that it s very clear that he would be aware of the threats, but he is so under deep cover that he s not really operational. can you sort that out for us? there are these reports coming in. i would again argue to you, andrea, if you went back three months ago you could probably piece together similar type of events. i think it s this guy sad dickey that triggered this. the fact bin laden s tape has