Posted by Orin Kerr:
Although It's Difficult
to know what to make of all the recent stories about ongoing terrorism
investigations, [1]this story from the NY Times suggests that there is
a lot of important stuff going on right now. Some excerpts:
A Pakistani man whose arrest provided information about the
reconnaissance of financial institutions in New York, Newark and
Washington was also communicating with Qaeda operatives who the
authorities say are plotting to carry out an attack intended to
disrupt the fall elections, a senior intelligence official said
Saturday.
. . .
Now the authorities say Mr. Khan's arrest is also helping them
unravel a threat to carry out an attack this year inside the United
States. . . . [H]e is emerging as a central figure in an expanding
web of connections that, the authorities say, indicates that they
may have penetrated an operational Qaeda group whose intentions
were previously unknown.
. . .
One senior counterterrorism official said the outpouring of leads
had mushroomed into a sprawling investigation in which agencies in
the United States and overseas were struggling to coordinate and
share the enormous volume of information.
References
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/politics/08plot.html
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