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Myers: Intelligence Might Have Thwarted Attacks
Tuesday, January 8, 2002
(5:28 AM ET) (10:28 GMT)
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The 14 suspected al Qaeda fighters "were senior enough that we thought they might have information we wanted," Gen. Myers said, and two have been transferred to the U.S. base at Kandahar.

WASHINGTON -- CNN
U.S. officials believe they have thwarted some terrorist attacks with intelligence gathered during the military campaign in Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.

Air Force Gen. Richard Myers would not give specifics, but he said U.S. authorities were working to gather information on al Qaeda and Taliban operations from recovered laptop computers and cellular phones, as well as from captured fighters.

U.S. investigators also said Tuesday a captured al Qaeda leader who helped run Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan has been "most cooperative."

Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi is being interrogated by U.S. officials aboard the USS Bataan, the amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea where American Taliban John Walker and eight other detainees are being held.
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