http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...58E7RV20090915
U.S. police alerted about bomb makers after NY raids
Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:50pm EDT
By Edith Honan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal anti-terrorism officials alerted local police departments around the United States about how to track evidence of bomb-making after authorities raided New York homes on Monday in an apparent search for homemade explosives.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security advised the police to look for burn marks typically found on suspects of a particular kind of bomb-making. The note was issued following searches of at least three apartments where a man suspected of sympathizing with al Qaeda had visited.
A U.S. Justice Department spokesman said on Tuesday the advisory was a direct result of Monday's raids, carried out by a joint anti-terrorism task force that included New York police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Authorities declined to say whether anyone was arrested….
"We believe it is prudent to share information with our state and local partners about the variety of domestically available materials that could be used to create homemade explosives," the federal agencies said in a statement.
New York police and the FBI have provided few details about the raids. Witnesses described an operation in which dozens of heavily armed FBI agents arrived in a phalanx of unmarked vehicles and stormed the building in the early morning….
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/terror.raid/
Afghans were targets of New York terror raid, source says
updated 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The targets of a federal anti-terror raid were Afghan nationals who all attended or circulated at a New York-area mosque, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation said Tuesday.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force raided several locations Monday, searching for explosive devices or components intended to be used on targets in the New York area, the source said.
None were found, according to the source. Publicity and the searches themselves may have "spooked" the people in the alleged cell or those connected to it, the source said.
It's the first time anyone can recall that Afghan nationals were suspected of involvement in a plot to attack the United States, the source said....