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Al Jazeera EnglishA White House spokesman says that Barack Obama, the US president, has been following the security threat in Europe and that in issuing its warning to Americans travelling to Europe, the state department has been "responsive to the president's direction that we spare no effort".
"From the day we became aware of this latest plot, the president made clear we need to do everything possible to disrupt this plot and protect the American people," Nick Shapiro, the White House assistant press secretary, told Al Jazeera.
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Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan, reporting from London, said: "The US state department has been aware of the growing concerns of the intelligence that has been growing pace over the past couple of days about the prospect of terrorist attacks.
"What is interesting is the backdrop of this statement. It is clear that European intelligence agencies are still very concerned about details that have been coming out from Bagram air base (in Afghanistan), where it is known they have been interrogating who they call a high value suspect: A man called Ahmed Siddiqui. He is a German man of Pakistani origin who is said to have had details of plans by al-Qaeda to launch Mumbai style attacks. That is small cells of highly mobile and armed people in European cities."
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