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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (456)	3/10/2003 12:35:07 AM
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Feds watch 3 city sites on terror list By MICHELE McPHEE and PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Three New York City locations are under surveillance by federal agents and police after their addresses turned up in the arrest of Al Qaeda operational commander Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, law enforcement sources told the Daily News. Investigators from the Joint Terrorist Task Force are watching the Manhattan and Brooklyn spots, the sources said, in hopes they will find Al Qaeda associates. The addresses were obtained immediately after Mohammed, the reputed No. 3 man in Osama Bin Laden's terror group, was captured last Saturday in Pakistan, a source said. Mohammed has been "loose-lipped" during interrogations, one source said, and "reams and reams" of his papers and gigabytes of computer data from his laptop and hand-held computers also are providing investigators here and around the world with potential leads to Al Qaeda members and possible terror plans. "He is giving up so much that we can't scramble fast enough," another source said. Mohammed is known to communicate mostly by computer. He was described as one of Bin Laden's most senior and significant lieutenants, who was plotting further attacks in the United States when he was seized. A U.S. intelligence report warned recently that "he has directed operatives to target bridges, gas stations and power plants in a number of locations, including New York City." Pakistani intelligence agents and CIA operatives captured Mohammed in a raid on a political leader's home in Rawalpindi, outside Islamabad. CIA and FBI translators in Washington continue to pore over the mother lode of documents and computer data as Mohammed is being interrogated by U.S. agents at an undisclosed location outside the United States. Mohammed, 37, who studied engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro in the 1980s, was cracking under long questioning and sleep deprivation. "He has provided a lot already," a source said. Mohammed is believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as well as the 2000 bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole in a Yemeni port and 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Mohammed has not been charged in the Sept. 11 attacks but was indicted in New York for his alleged involvement in the failed 1995 plot to blow up 11 U.S. jets flying from Asia. nydailynews.com