FBI fails to find terror trail
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- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:28:20 +0100
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FBI has issued several alerts after the 11 September attacks
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By Katty Kay
BBC Washington correspondent
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US intelligence officials have admitted they failed to unearth any sort
of paper trail leading to the 11 September attacks.
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The hijackers did not use laptops and stored nothing on computer hard
drives. They dressed and acted like Americans
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In the most detailed account so far of the investigation, the head of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that after seven months
of relentless work America had found no hard evidence mentioning any
aspect to the attacks on New York and Washington.
FBI Director Robert Mueller said his agents had chased literally
hundreds of thousands of leads and checked every record they could lay
their hands on, from flight reservations to car rentals to bank
accounts.
They have hunted through caves in Afghanistan and credit card bills in
America but so far the very best of US intelligence has been thwarted by
19 al-Qaeda hijackers, revealing just how little America knows about the
11 September attacks.
New warning
Mr Mueller said the hijackers hid communications by using hundreds of
different pay phones and cell phones, along with hard to trace pre-paid
phone cards.
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FBI officials say a similar attack may be plotted now
They did not use laptops and stored nothing on computer hard drives.
They made sure that all money sent to fund the operation was wired in
small amounts to avoid detection.
They also dressed and acted like Americans and when four of them were
stopped for speeding in the days before the 11 September, they kept
calm, avoiding suspicion.
What investigators do know is that the attacks on Washington and New
York were in the pipeline for as long as five years and so officials
said, it was very very possible that a similar attack was being plotted
right now.
Source: BBC online
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