Does anyone have a link to this article.. I cannot find it anywhere.. Jon Beets
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Cordian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: Gloat on the Phone - Go to Jail > Here's an intersting Reuters blurb on arrests made because people failed > to grieve properly on their phone lines. > > It doesn't say how many of these intercepts were with warrants, how many > were secret court/national security intercepts, how many were illegal, and > how many were routed offshore to be sniffed by our allies. > > Interesting times. > > ----- > > NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Among almost 1,000 people being held in the United > States in connection with the hijacked-airliner attacks on the World Trade > Center and the Pentagon are people who made congratulatory telephone calls > minutes later, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions. > > Although transcripts of the phone calls have not been made available, the > Times reports that officials have said some of the calls were > "congratulatory, even gloating." > > These suspected associates of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden's al > Qaeda organization are among 977 people held on various charges related to > the September 11 attacks, which killed almost 5,000 people in New York, > Washington and Pennsylvania. > > The paper said it had been unable to determine whether those who made the > jubilant calls were participants in the hijack plot or merely rejoicing > over the attacks. > > FBI agents intercepted telephone calls, moved in and made arrests, holding > the bulk of those arrested on immigration or criminal violations and a > smaller group on material witness warrants, the newspaper reported. > > Their identities and those of most of the people being held have not been > released by the Justice Department. > > The newspaper said officials would not say how many people were detained > through the telephone intercepts, nor would they discuss evidence that any > of them proved to be members of the group organized by bin Laden, > Washington's prime suspect in the attacks. > > -- > Eric Michael Cordian 0+ > O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division > "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"