Well, we’ve known that for a while, but according to ABC’s Brian (got my ear on the wall) Ross, it’s gotten a bit more dire:

” Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here.

The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat.

Top intelligence and law enforcement officials have been told to assemble in the Situation Room to report on:

–what steps can be taken to minimize or counter the threat,

–and what steps are being taken to harden security for government buildings and personnel.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune editorial board on Tuesday he had “a gut feeling” that an attack was coming.

“We do worry about whether they are rebuilding their capabilities,” Chertoff said. “We strike at them; we degrade them; but they rebuild.”

“It suggests they have information that the cell or cells coming this direction want to attack a government facility,” Brad Garrett, a former FBI agent and ABC News consultant, said.

Law enforcement officials say the recent failed attacks in London have provided important new clues about possible tactics.”

Nothing like good intel, although this is really sketchy, and it’s hard to pin down the exact stream of chatter. ¬† Chertoff brings up one important point and that is that we can never let up on hammering Al Qaeda around the world for just as any other enemy, if you do they can and most often do rebuild.

Of course this doesn’t faze “got me fingers in me ears” types like Larry Johnson, who after all told us in 2001 we had nothing to worry about Al Qaeda just months before 9/11.

Or this idiot who thinks the only enemy America has is homophobes.