From PRNewswire:

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A U.S.-based cell of the Al Qaeda terror network nearly launched an attack on a major target in Washington, D.C. after September 11, Newsweek has learned.



Intelligence sources say a Qaeda "sleeper cell" in the U.S. was poised to launch the attack -- perhaps against the Capitol Building. The sources believe that the FBI, in its sweep against visa violators and other illegals of Mideast backgrounds, picked up members of a
"support cell" tasked with providing logistics help to the people actually carrying out the mission. Intelligence sources say the would-be terrorists then went underground or fled the country.

Investigators have not yet been able to identify the plotters from among the hundreds of people caught in the FBI dragnet; they're not even sure they are still in custody, according to a Newsweek Special Report in the December 17 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands
Monday, December 10), written by Senior Writer Jeffrey Bartholet and reported by Newsweek Correspondents in Afghanistan, Washington and the Middle East.



Maybe this will shut up a few of those squawking about how we're ruining the nation by rounding up some non-citizens and illegals. And this is just one incident they know about. Nobody knows how many other such actions may have been aborted by this sweep.

Hey, you Democrats sitting in the CAPITOL BUILDING. Yeah, the building that may have been a target of this attack? Any more to say about these anti-terrorist policies?

It really galls me to see some Democrats wrapping themselves up in the Constitution. Some of them seem to believe the Bill of Rights has only a First Amendment, and the rest are highly selective about what the other ones say. The Tenth Amendment alone has been used as toilet paper for decades. And let's not even talk about the Second Amendment.