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Source: http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/18385.htm
Terror Tradecraft
(New York Post) Peter Brookes- Al-Qaeda's information on targets in New York City and Washington, D.C., indicates a high-quality covert intelligence-collection capability. The FBI estimates that there are several hundred al-Qaeda-associated extremists in the U.S. It could be a deadly mistake not to take recent terrorist threats seriously. Al-Qaeda operatives collected more than 500 digital photos, documents, and drawings. They detailed building layouts, security and construction, and pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow. They noted employee routines and watering holes. And they mapped the location of the first responders such as hospitals, police, and fire departments - all with an eye to killing as many people as possible. The writer is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a CIA veteran.