The Insider: Daily Terrorism Report
August 2 -- Financial institutions identified as targets of a terrorist plot in three cities opened for business Monday under stepped-up security, news wires report. Police sealed off some streets in New York, put international-finance employees in Washington D.C. through extra security checks, and added barricades and a heavy armed presence in Newark, N.J., in response to a heightened terrorism alert aimed specifically at titans of the financial sector. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge raised the terror threat level for the financial institutions to orange after Pakistani intelligence agents found plans for new attacks against the United States and Britain on a computer seized during the arrest of a senior al Qaeda suspect, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, wanted for the 1998 twin U.S. embassy bombings, Pakistan's information minister said.
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U.S. Warns of Threat To Financial Icons
Federal authorities had prominent financial institutions in New York, Washington and Newark, N.J., under heavy scrutiny Monday after unusually detailed information on a purported al Qaeda plot prompted them to raise the government's terror alert. (AP)
Pakistani-U.S. Raid Uncovered Terrorist Cell's Surveillance Data
The fresh intelligence that led to Sunday's extraordinary terror alert comes from documents discovered after Pakistani and U.S. forces broke up an al Qaeda cell in Gujrat, Pakistan, eight days ago, U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday. (Washington Post)
Americans Urged To Stick To Routines Despite Terror Alert
Officials in New York, New Jersey and Washington urged people today to go about their normal activities, but to be vigilant in the face of new terror warnings from the Department of Homeland Security. (NY Times)
Metro: Terror Alert and Commuter IssuesThe federal government has raised the terror alert level to orange for the financial services sectors in New York City, Washington and Newark, citing the discovery of remarkably detailed intelligence showing that al Qaeda operatives have been plotting for years to blow up specific buildings with car or truck bombs. (Washington Post)
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