US, NATO Forces Knew Of Bombing Threat During Cheney Visit

The New York Times ABDUL WAHEED WAFA and CARLOTTA GALL February 28, 2007 09:37 PM

NATO and American forces knew that a suicide bomber was at large in the Bagram area before the suicide bomb attack on Tuesday that killed 23 people at the main gate of the United States air base where Vice President Dick Cheney was staying, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday.

But despite the vice president's presence, the Afghan police chief in the area said he had not been informed of the possible threat.

"We know for a fact that there has been recent intelligence to suggest that there was the threat of a bombing in the Bagram area," the spokesman, Col. Tom Collins, said at a news briefing in Kabul.

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