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...outweighed by the advantages. The white, sugarlike powder is lightweight and nearly odorless (the better to evade bomb-sniffing dogs) and contains no nitrogen (foiling scanners that detect nitrogenous bombs). Its basic ingredients - acetone, hydrogen peroxide and acid - are readily available in beauty supplies and home-improvement products. Al-Qaeda operatives have been using the stuff for years...
...Pakistani authorities to keep an eye on Zazi, and what they saw was unsettling. "There was reason to believe that Zazi met with terrorists in Pakistan," a U.S. counterterrorism official tells TIME. The FBI confirms this, saying that since his arrest, Zazi has admitted to attending an al-Qaeda training camp, where he received instruction in weapons and explosives. "The nature of terrorist-training camps in Pakistan varies considerably," the counterterrorism official explains. "Some are fixed locations, while others are mobile. Some have better infrastructure and support than others. But they all have one thing in common - they're dangerous...
...sometimes difficult to determine exactly at what point it was that somebody becomes radicalized and then decides to become a terrorist," a senior Obama Administration official tells TIME. "Usually it's an evolutionary process." And what does it mean to have an Afghan immigrant take up al-Qaeda's cause? The worst-case scenario, according to experts, is that Zazi may represent an effort by the Taliban to expand its attacks on U.S. interests. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, believes the Taliban's worldview has changed since the U.S.-led invasion ousted it from power...
...nothing about him except for his shuttle van. "We have people of all walks here," says Mike Callender, a warehouse manager who lives in Building B. "And everyone gets along." The perfect cover, in effect, was no cover at all. "We've known for a long time that al-Qaeda's ideal recruit is someone who is legally in the U.S., has no criminal record," says Rosenau, "someone completely invisible to authorities...
...Needles in Haystacks If Zazi represents a new kind of menace for the U.S., his arrest could be a double blessing, a counterterrorism official offers. Not only did it thwart a plot but it could also lead to a mother lode of information on al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the state of the global jihad. But there are other, less reassuring lessons from Zazi and from the alleged lone-wolf wannabe terrorists snared by the FBI in Texas and Illinois. For starters: hatred is patient. The American struggle against Islamic terrorism, already one of the longest wars in the nation...