Travelers Interviewed in 9/11 Terror Probe

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After warnings of a possible 9/11 anniversary terror plot, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force officials athwart the country are now conducting interviews to drive out hundreds of people who could competition travel patterns of terrorists.

Intelligence collected from overseas indicates a in posse threat involving car bombs, as well threats to bridges and tunnels, according to a shelter official. The information indicated that three men would pass from Pakistan to the U.S. to accomplish out an attack.

A ruling power official stresses security officials do not understand if any terror suspect entered the United States at every part of, and the questioning of travelers from one side of to the other the country is precautionary and is meant to govern people out.

Several intelligence, formula enforcement and Homeland Security officials before-mentioned Saturday that after intensive checking of records and sources, there’s still nothing to confirm the admonition of a vehicle bomb plot in a circle 9/11, which came from a Pakistani intelligence source.

Airline passenger arrival records are life checked against the few vague particulars the source offered, including age scope, approximate heights, fragments of names, and make an excursion patterns.

That chore is complicated ~ dint of. the possibility that the men may be under the necessity been smuggled into and out of Pakistan, leaving ~t any record they were ever there.

Law sanction officials say hundreds of recent arrivals bring forth already been checked and ruled away. Some of that can be translated merely by reference to the records, no more than in other cases, in-person interviews are reality conducted.

And around New York and Washington, officials declare the FBI has found no sign of curious purchases of chemicals needed to force car bombs.

A joint FBI-Department of Homeland Security bulletin from Thursday uttered al-Qaida may be considering attacks that practice improvised explosives packed in vehicles, like to the "attempted attack on Times square" by Faisal Shahzad in May 2010.

Al-Qaida may have existence aiming to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden and other key extreme dread figures, the bulletin said.

Also Saturday, officials were investigating accusation about two construction vans stolen forward roads in Queens on Sept. 1 or 2. A commonwealth official says the theft may be under the necessity been from somebody working with the van, theorizing that it may be one inside job.

Along with the vans, $70,000 in explanation equipment was reported stolen.

The alleged consternation threat by al-Qaida against New York City and Washington D.C has brought superadded police officers, vehicle checkpoints, and subway sack checks.

The NYPD has increased before that time-tight security because of the spiritual being, which indicates a possible car bomb project, officials said.

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