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...rosters, pay ledgers, letters from home and other paperwork in bombed-out al-Qaeda training camps. From these and other sources, counterterror specialists are racing to assemble a master list of thousands of radical jihadists who studied and bonded at the camps, then scattered around the globe to form "sleeper cells." "A lot of documents have been left behind, and we've got to get our hands on that stuff," says an official. To that end, orders have gone out to military and CIA personnel on the ground to preserve every scrap found, down to notes from wives and scribbles...
...terrorism investigation. One hundred and four of them have been charged with federal crimes, according to the Justice Department - which leaves 499 people being held on relatively minor charges, including immigration violations. The detentions are necessary, the Attorney General insists, in light of the country?s battle against lingering "sleeper" terror cells and networks...
Cornell will lose only nine starters to graduation and could be a sleeper team in the league next year if they can replace Rahne’s production...
...older man of shifting and suspect identity, and study sessions with her uncle, a history professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages he had trained himself not to think in anymore," a man once--and perhaps still--intent on disrupting what he calls "the American conspiracy." He probably seemed merely unsettling...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Six members of an alleged sleeper cell picked up across the country since Sept...