American and British investigators have strong evidence that terror suspects recently collared in Pakistan and England, linked to the latest terror alert, were preparing to attack Britain.
But they have little proof that the suspects were preparing to hit targets in the US, Newsweek reports in its upcoming issue.
Intelligence reports, it says, allege that Dhiren Barot, a suspected British Al Qaeda operative also known as Esa Al-Hindi, visited Pakistan last winter and may have met with other Qaeda operatives.
During such meetings, investigators fear, Barot, one of the eight men charged in London last week with terrorist conspiracy, may have shared information from surveillances of financial buildings in New York, New Jersey and Washington, DC, which authorities believe Barot and two associates cased before 9/11.
But most of the evidence so far, Newsweek says, indicates that Barot and his alleged cohorts were actively
preparing to attack only British targets. US security officials say they must assume that plotting could be underway by Qaeda sleepers in the US -- perhaps using the surveillance reports written by the Barot group.
But if terrorists connected to the accused British conspirators are preparing an attack in the US, authorities have no idea who -- or where -- they are, it adds.
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