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09-15-2009, 08:55 PM
NYDN: Suspect cell in Denver plotting 9/11-scale attack in NYC?
Queens terror raids part of FBI probe into Denver-based cell plotting
attack on 9/11 scale
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington
AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND LARRY McSHANE in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 12:49 PM
http://snipr.com/rvl00
The massive FBI probe that triggered raids in Queens is focused on a
Denver-based terror cell plotting another attack on the scale of 9/11,
the Daily News learned Tuesday.
Hundreds of FBI agents are on the ground in Colorado, conducting
round-the-clock surveillance on five suspects - including a man who
recently visited Queens, sources told The News.
New York authorities searched three Flushing apartments and detained
several men - later released - after getting a warrant to look for
bomb-making components, explosive powders and fuses.
"The FBI is seriously spooked about these guys planning another
9/11," a former senior counterterrorism official told the News. "This is
not some ... FBI informant-driven case. This is the real thing."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters it's an ongoing
investigation with plenty of "substance."
The 24-7 counterterror operation included Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrants used to intercept calls and e-mails, as well
as overseas-linked wiretaps to eavesdrop on Arabic and Pashto-speaking
targets.
Sources said the investigation's targets are Afghans - an unusual
development. Al Qaeda prefers Arabs and Pakistanis as there overseas
operatives.
FBI officials are furious at Kelly over Monday's raids because the
NYPD seemed intent on scaring off the cell - which is believed to be
plotting a New York attack.
The FBI hoped to wait and determine what the Colorado cell was
planning.
Two other sources confirmed the FBI-NYPD rift. An investigator
involved in the case said Kelly prefers to "act too soon rather than act
too late."
Queens terror raids part of FBI probe into Denver-based cell plotting
attack on 9/11 scale
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK in Washington
AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND LARRY McSHANE in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 12:49 PM
http://snipr.com/rvl00
The massive FBI probe that triggered raids in Queens is focused on a
Denver-based terror cell plotting another attack on the scale of 9/11,
the Daily News learned Tuesday.
Hundreds of FBI agents are on the ground in Colorado, conducting
round-the-clock surveillance on five suspects - including a man who
recently visited Queens, sources told The News.
New York authorities searched three Flushing apartments and detained
several men - later released - after getting a warrant to look for
bomb-making components, explosive powders and fuses.
"The FBI is seriously spooked about these guys planning another
9/11," a former senior counterterrorism official told the News. "This is
not some ... FBI informant-driven case. This is the real thing."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters it's an ongoing
investigation with plenty of "substance."
The 24-7 counterterror operation included Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act warrants used to intercept calls and e-mails, as well
as overseas-linked wiretaps to eavesdrop on Arabic and Pashto-speaking
targets.
Sources said the investigation's targets are Afghans - an unusual
development. Al Qaeda prefers Arabs and Pakistanis as there overseas
operatives.
FBI officials are furious at Kelly over Monday's raids because the
NYPD seemed intent on scaring off the cell - which is believed to be
plotting a New York attack.
The FBI hoped to wait and determine what the Colorado cell was
planning.
Two other sources confirmed the FBI-NYPD rift. An investigator
involved in the case said Kelly prefers to "act too soon rather than act
too late."