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I'm a lawyer here in Las Vegas and to answer your question there were no arrests or detentions (to my knowledge) here relating to terrorism in 2001 or 2002. There was, however, information that an alleged Al Queda cel that was broken up by the feds last year in the Detroit area had apparently scoped out Las Vegas hotels (including the largest, the MGM Grand) and that information had been provided to the feds that Las Vegas may indeed have been an Al Queda target - information which was NOT shared at the time with local authorities, causing some friction between our local police department and the F.B.I.

Further, what is really bizarre is that despite all of the references to Las Vegas now as a potential terrorist target (as many of us have read here on F.R., MSNBC, and various other sources) that appear to have come via leaks from the feds, the local authorites (including the Governor and Clark County Sheriff) all say to a man that they are still unaware of any specific threats and have not been told of any by the Department of Homeland Security.

In today's Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sheriff Bill Young was quoted as saying that he himself has read about these rumors, but that when he himself contacted Tom Ridge's office he was basically given the brush off.

I'm honestly not sure what to make of all of this but it is quite concerning...

"the local authorites (including the Governor and Clark County Sheriff) all say to a man that they are still unaware of any specific threats "

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They don't want to scare away all the holiday visitors, that's all.

It should be because although DHS alleges locals have to be responsible for their own, mayhaps they are intentionally keeping them in the dark or the locals are 'told' to say they are not aware of any specific threat...look at that poor little town in VA