‘An enemy that is patient’
Trio charged in terror plot against finance buildings
MSNBC..........Comey said the case demonstrates that the United States is pitted against "an enemy that is patient and ... is bent on killing Americans in a very spectacular way."
U.S. officials allege that Barot is a senior al-Qaida figure — known variously as Abu Eisa al-Hindi, Abu Musa al-Hindi and Issa al-Britani — who was an instructor at a terrorism camp in Afghanistan and scouted the targets at the behest of fugitive al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. But Comey indicated that the investigation has not uncovered any evidence connecting the men to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks blamed on al-Qaida.
Prosecutors say the men conducted surveillance on the buildings between August 2000 and April 2001, including video surveillance in Manhattan around April 2001.
In August 2004, the government raised the risk of a terrorist attack to "high" for those specific financial institutions. The color-coded threat level for the rest of the nation remained at yellow, or elevated, the middle of a five-point scale.
Federal authorities, who acknowledged the threat was based mainly on years-old intelligence, said the decision to raise the threat level was based on an abundance of caution and because of the lengthy planning and plotting record of the terrorist network known as al-Qaida....................
MSNBC..........Comey said the case demonstrates that the United States is pitted against "an enemy that is patient and ... is bent on killing Americans in a very spectacular way."
U.S. officials allege that Barot is a senior al-Qaida figure — known variously as Abu Eisa al-Hindi, Abu Musa al-Hindi and Issa al-Britani — who was an instructor at a terrorism camp in Afghanistan and scouted the targets at the behest of fugitive al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. But Comey indicated that the investigation has not uncovered any evidence connecting the men to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks blamed on al-Qaida.
Prosecutors say the men conducted surveillance on the buildings between August 2000 and April 2001, including video surveillance in Manhattan around April 2001.
In August 2004, the government raised the risk of a terrorist attack to "high" for those specific financial institutions. The color-coded threat level for the rest of the nation remained at yellow, or elevated, the middle of a five-point scale.
Federal authorities, who acknowledged the threat was based mainly on years-old intelligence, said the decision to raise the threat level was based on an abundance of caution and because of the lengthy planning and plotting record of the terrorist network known as al-Qaida....................
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