Word: tipoffs
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...London. The paintings, worth more than $80 million, were recovered in 2002 after the Tate paid more than $5 million to people having "information" about their whereabouts. Though ransom is illegal in Britain, money for leads in an investigation is not, provided that police agree the source of the tipoff is unconnected to the crime. All the same, where information money ends and ransom begins is often a gray area...
...analysts detailed to the CIA ask the INS for information on al-Midhar and al-Hazmi. On Aug. 22, the INS tells them al-Midhar returned to the U.S. in July. The CIA puts al-Midhar and al-Hazmi on the TIPOFF watch list and asks the FBI to look for them. The FBI assigns one agent, with no counterterrorism experience, to track down al-Midhar. Only on 9/11, in the hours before the attacks, does he ask the Los Angeles field office for help. Earlier, a New York FBI agent involved in the Cole criminal investigation asks colleagues...
...several points the CIA could have asked the FBI to trace the two hijackers' activities in the U.S., which would have led to 9/11 pilot Hani Hanjour, who was training with al-Hazmi. The State Department could have put them on the TIPOFF list much earlier. The FAA could have put them on its no-fly list, keeping them off domestic flights...
...specific identifying information are being fed into the NCIC and the U.S. Customs Service's Interagency Border Inspection System (IBIS), which is run at border crossing points. A greater number of names, including aliases, partial names and sound-alike names are being put into the Department of State's TIPOFF system, used to check foreigners seeking visas. Unlike a trooper making a traffic stop, Justice officials say, a consular officer has considerable time to investigate whether the applicant is, in fact, the same person who's referred to on the terrorist suspect list...
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