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Monday, January 14, 2002
lleeing terrorists leave information
WASHINGTON (AP) — From
fgnanistan to Europe to the U.S. Midwest,
spected terrorists, often beating a hasty re-
at from their homes, camps and caves, have
1 behind a mountain of suspicious items that
S. investigators are combing for clues.
Information in some discovered documents
slxl to arrests, thwarted attacks and a “peel-
g back of the onion of al-Qaida,” says one
iefJigence expert.
Ai a makeshift laboratory in Kabul, there
;re smelly liquids and charred papers cov-
;d with chemical formulas; in Minnesota, a
mj uter disk about crop dusting.
In caves outside Kandahar, Arabic-lan-
age exams were found that quiz terrorists-
tfiining on the best way to shoot down a
uu or kill a man.
Tlic paper trail alone is like a confetti
D\*er in a Manhattan parade. But there
ve also been videos, artifacts and digital
:ojds most foul.
What they all amount to is still being sort-
out. Some may not qualify as much more
in terrorist curios.
But officials believe documents and a
leotape found in Afghanistan and passed to
[hot ities in Singapore foiled a planned ter-
ist attack and resulted in the breakup of an
Qaida cell there.
Such discoveries have exposed similar cells
in other countries, officials said, without
giving details.
Altogether, there is a lot to sort through.
An English-language book with instruc
tions on how to survive a nuclear explosion
was found at a compound in eastern
Afghanistan where one of Osama bin Laden's
wives lived. An issue of Chemical Weekly ad
dressed to a public library in Kansas City,
Mo., was discovered at an al-Qaida camp.
During raids and arrests around the world,
U.S.-led forces and law enforcement officers
have collected gas masks, homemade videos
— some famously starring Osama bin Laden
— and American military reports on immu
nizing soldiers against anthrax.
On a board inside a house in Kabul, some
one sketched a plane with the caption: “Your
days are limited. Bang.”
The materials have been shipped back to
the Washington area for translation and shar
ing among the CIA, the Defense Intelligence
Agency and the FBI, said Vince Cannistraro,
a former CIA counterterrorism chief.
“They’ve found evidence in documents of
culpability for specific terrorist operations that
have taken place in the past,” he said, declin
ing to be more specific. “They have found
names of people in terrorist cells abroad who
are in place to conduct another operation.”
All this has caused a “peeling back of the
onion of al-Qaida” in some parts of the
world, he said.
Some of the items at al-Qaida safe houses
in Afghanistan were taken by journalists or
thrown out by northern alliance troops before
U.S. officials arrived. But the materials found
have revealed new details about bin Laden’s
terrorist network — clues that could help
prosecutors build cases against suspected ter
rorists, or help investigators interrogating Tal
iban and al-Qaida members held captive by
the United States.
An interrogation of a detainee might stall,
said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld,
but information in a laptop or an address book
in a house in Kabul might advance the case.
“You might arrest somebody with pocket
litter that connects that person to one of the
people you're interrogating,” he said.
Bruce Yannette, who formerly directed the
terrorism unit of the U.S. attorney’s office in
Washington, said the “scope of this operation
is absolutely remarkable” considering what
has been found so far.
“Hopefully, what these documents and
these materials will do is help convince world
opinion that what we’re doing is appropriate
and that this really was a murderous and crim
inal organization.”
Gas prices increasing
across the nation
■CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) - Gas prices
rept up 3 cents in the past three weeks,
mding a 15-week price crash that began
vith the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, accord-
ig to a newly released industry analysis.
Gas prices Friday at about 8,000 gas
tations nationwide averaged Si. 12 a
;allon for self-serve regular, analyst Tril-
NEWS IN BRIEF
by Lundberg said Sunday.
The weighted price per gallon for all
grades and taxes was Si.15, up 3.27
cents from Dec. 21, the date of the last
Lundberg Survey.
The weeks to come could see addi
tional moderate, but not extreme, price
increases, Lundberg said.
"The turnaround had to happen
sometime after a glut of gasoline relative
to demand developed due to post-nine-
eleven weak demand, and from season
al and economic conditions," she said.
"A slight increase in crude oil prices in
the past three weeks supported the
gasoline price turnaround."
Prices dropped nearly 45 cents a gal
lon from Sept. 7 — the last Lundberg Sur
vey before the attacks — to Dec. 21. Just
over a year ago, on Jan. 5, 2001, a gallon
of gas cost about 34 cents more than it
does now.
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