WASHINGTON: The entire U.S. intelligence community is busy pursuing
leads from files recovered from Osama bin Laden’’’’s Abbottobad,
Pakistan, compound to determine whether bin Laden’’’’s plots had gone
beyond the discussion and planning phase to concrete threats,
US
government sources told ABC News.
Sources familiar with bin
Laden’’’’s handwritten journal and computer files told ABC News that
names of suspected al Qaeda operatives had been found in the files, and
that an intense effort was under way to find the individuals attached
to those names.
A special Media Exploitation Task Force
"working 24/7" in shifts has been set up on the grounds of CIA
headquarters to exploit the bin Laden files.
U.S. intelligence
has been trying to determine if the names in the files are real or
aliases, and has called on Great Britain and Canada to help it nail the
identifications.
"The names that they are finding are extremely
important. I believe that they’’’’re under a lot of pressure to resolve
and identify these people as quickly as possible," former FBI Agent
Brad Garret said in an interview with ABC News. Online
