Leads From a Laptop

August 15, 2004

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As frightening as the recent terror warnings about attacks on the homeland have been, U.S. intelligence officials are still stumped by one key question: did any of the plots represent live threats or had Al Qaeda shelved the plans long ago? Raids in Pakistan and Britain over the past few weeks led to a windfall of intelligence about terrorist cells, operations and tradecraft. The major bonanza was a computer and related gear seized from captured Qaeda fixer Muhammed Neem Noor Khan—who, U.S. officials say, was in at least indirect contact with Osama bin Laden. It was from Khan’s computer disks that the Feds learned about plans to attack major financial targets in New York and Washington.

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