- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among
almost 1,000 people being held in the United States in connection with
the hijacked-airliner attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
are people who made congratulatory telephone calls minutes later, The New
York Times reported in Sunday editions.
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- Although transcripts of the phone calls have not been
made available, the Times reports that officials have said some of the
calls were ``congratulatory, even gloating.''
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- These suspected associates of Saudi-born militant Osama
bin Laden's al Qaeda organization are among 977 people held on various
charges related to the Sept. 11 attacks, which killed almost 5,000 people
in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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- FBI agents intercepted telephone calls, moved in and
made arrests, holding the bulk of those arrested on immigration or criminal
violations and a smaller group on material witness warrants, the newspaper
reported.
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- Their identities and those of most of the people being
held have not been released by the Justice Department.
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- The paper said it had been unable to determine whether
those who made the jubilant calls were participants in the hijack plot
or merely rejoicing over the attacks.
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- It said officials would not say how many people were
detained through the telephone intercepts, nor would they discuss evidence
that any of them proved to be members of the group organized by bin Laden,
Washington's prime suspect in the attacks.
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