Report: Al Qaeda Could Soon Attack U.S. Targets

By Madeleine Brand

Published May 27, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Bruce Hoffman, terrorism specialist and acting director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy, about the latest reports that al Qaeda has recruited thousands of new members and is planning attacks in the United States in the near future.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).