AMERICAN MILITARY GOES ON FULL ALERT

AMERICAN MILITARY GOES ON FULL ALERT
Defcon-Two Order Acts On New Intelligence

WASHINGTON, D.C.(DeutscheWelle) The Department of Defense announced today that the nation's military alert readiness level had been raised to Defense Condition (Defcon) Two -- one stage below a declaration of war -- as new intelligence indicated an imminent attack against the United States.

The Pentagon would not reveal details about the intelligence, but specifically alerted U.S. commands in Korea, Singapore, the Phillipines, and Hawaii. Similarly, new curfew orders in cities along the West Coast of the United States were about to be enacted.

Police in seven western states have been sent preliminary instructions to bring under surveillance a large number of people of an unspecified racial or ethnic group -- a move which has brought strident criticisim from civil libertarians and legal advocates.

Sources at the Pentagon indicated that the intelligence information, originating in the Pacific Rim, pointed to a likely attack against U.S. naval assets in Hawaii.

The President noted that 'these are dark days for our country. We must stand together against the possibility of a new threat, unseen in the darkness around us.'

In a related story, the Japanese ambassador was abruptly called to the White House for a forty-minute interview with President Bush. Ambassador Tokyama commented after that he had been asked to 'provide certain assurances' to the administration, and help 'answer certain inquiries'.

Tokyama denied rumors that the intelligence gathered poiinted to an attack by Japan against the U.S. at the end of the year. 'That is very old history. Why would America depend on intelligence over sixty years old?' he added.
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