This article which effectively counters the first objection
to the al-Qaeda connection:
A U.S.-Based Al Qaeda 'Sleeper Cell' Was Poised to Launch a
Post-Sept. 11 Attack on a Major Washington Target; Would-Be
Terrorists Went Underground or Fled U.S.
Evidence Indicates Al Qaeda Had Russian Help Developing
Anthrax; Al-Zawahiri Believed Involved in Bin Laden's
Biological Weapons Program
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A U.S.-based cell of
the Al Qaeda terror network nearly launched an attack on a
major target in Washington, D.C. after September 11,
*Newsweek* has learned. Intelligence sources say a Qaeda
"sleeper cell" in the U.S. was poised to launch the attack
-- perhaps against the Capitol Building. The sources
believe that the FBI, in its sweep against visa violators
and other illegals of Mideast backgrounds, picked up members
of a "support cell" tasked with providing logistics help to
the people actually carrying out the mission. Intelligence
sources say the would-be terrorists then went underground or
fled the country. Investigators have not yet been able to
identify the plotters from among the hundreds of people
caught in the FBI dragnet; they're not even sure they are
still in custody, according to a Newsweek Special Report in
the December 17 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday,
December 10), written by Senior Writer Jeffrey Bartholet and
reported by Newsweek Correspondents in Afghanistan,
Washington and the Middle East.
online at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=617800&TICK=NEWS&STORY=/www/story/12-09-2001/0001630088&EDATE=Dec+9,+2001
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