U.S. authorities plan a law enforcement surge on Friday along Amtrak routes, an exercise called RailSafe, in which uniformed officers will be a visible presence on national transit routes. RailSafe will include all the local police agencies along the Amtrak routes involved in the exercise.
The stepped-up security comes as the French arrested 12 terror suspects in Bordeaux and Marseilles, and as the U.S. used CIA drones to attack a suspected center of the plot in Pakistan. The target hit Monday was one of the terror training camps
| Hurrah -- finally we're going after the training camps, not just personal compounds. The ISI are no doubt seriously displeased; if they're smart they're becoming nervous, too, because this is a sign that President Obama is no longer framing his thoughts about Pakistan in the rosy memory of that quail-hunting Christmas holiday with his college roommate's family. |
in the Waziristan region where U.S. officials say a contingent of German citizens of Afghan and Turkish descent have been preparing for jihad against Europe. U.S. officials say some have already been dispatched, likely those with their faces obscured in a recently released propaganda tape.
U.S. authorities say they have tracked one of the suspected German terror cells to the German city of Hamburg. Some of the suspects worked as cleaners at the Hamburg airport,
and many also attended the same mosque in Hamburg where the 9/11 hijackers gathered.
To the amazement of US officials, it turns out the imam of the mosque is the same man accused by the U.S. nine years ago of helping finance the 9/11 plot, Mamoun Darkazanli. "The mosque went back to being a very radical place where people are recruited for attacks where attacks are discussed," said former White House national security official Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant, "and German intelligence apparently stopped looking closely at the mosque where a lot of 9/11 was planned."
| Or not. Were I a German intelligence official, Mr. Clarke is the person I'd be least likely to share work secrets with. |
Darkazanli, who was never charged by the Germans, declined to comment about the latest plot when approached by ABC News. |