Nothing new, but additional confirmation, from the New York Times via the [1] Barre Montpelier Times Argus, :

BERLIN — The leader of Germany's foreign intelligence agency warned Tuesday night of an increased likelihood of a major terror attack by al-Qaida in the weeks before the American presidential election.

"There is fear of a big attack on America by the terror organization al-Qaida before the presidential elections in November," August Hanning, director of the Federal Intelligence Service, said in a speech in Heidelberg, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported.

Hanning said that in the last few months al-Qaida had realigned its organizational structure and personnel resources and that the likelihood of terror attacks was "bigger than ever before, " the news agency reported.