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Al Quaeda Operatives Captured by CIA Provided Intelligence Behind New Orange Heightened Terrorist Threat Alert

Homeland Security Today Magazine Briefed That Three Al Qaeda Cells Appeared to Coordinate Bomb Plots in US.

WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) August 7, 2004 -- Senior US counterterrorist and intelligence officials in Washington told Homeland Security Today Magazine in recent days intelligence gleaned as a consequence of the arrest in Texas of alleged Al Qaeda courier Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed, and the subsequent unreported capture by the CIA of two operatives of an Al Qaeda cell operating in Mexico for which she was ferrying “instructions” to suspected Al Qaeda members in New York, contributed significantly to the nation’s capital, New York City and New Jersey being put on high alert Sunday.

Washington-based counter terror intelligence sources told HSToday Ahmed was on her way to New York to deliver what were described as “instructions” from an Al Qaeda cell. The officials said intelligence provided by Ahmed – who authorities believe was operating as a “mule;” a conduit for passing plot instructions - during interrogations led agents of the CIA’s top secret operation to secretly capture Al Qaeda operatives to an undisclosed location where at least two members of the cell were taken into custody and transferred to one of the CIA’s clandestine terrorist detention facilities.

I wonder if John Kerry is up to speed on this one.