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At a December 22 meeting of the Small Group of principals, FBI Director Louis Freeh briefed officials from the NSC staff, CIA, and Justice on wiretaps and investigations inside the United States, including a Brooklyn entity tied to the Ressam arrest, a seemingly unreliable foreign report of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell.
Jeanne A. Butterfield, executive director of AILA, says it hasn't tried to organize pro bono lawyers for those detained
The Washington Post shows it knows its way beyond the Beltway, putting Clinton/grand jury as the off-lead and going instead with the news that a suspect has been detained in the Kenya embassy bombing, a story that makes everybody's front page.
The FBI may soon get its hands on a suspect in the Saudi air-base bombing . Canadian authorities have detained a Saudi citizen suspected of driving either the truck or the getaway car used in the bombing, which killed 19 American soldiers and wounded 500 others.
And the LAT also offers more specific details of the protests: 10,000 demonstrators assembled; 15 injured and 20 detained by police.