Adding on to post no. 13798...
http://www.pjstar.com/news/luciano/b1mnkauh054.html "Peoria part of terrorist 'circuit'"
"Peoria County sheriff says Champaign also among 7 stopovers"
December 28, 2003
Phil Luciano
pluciano@pjstar.com ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Former West Peorian Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri has been locked up as an enemy combatant, but his terrorist comrades continue to work in central Illinois.
Peoria and Champaign are part of a seven-city "circuit" that moves and disperses terrorists to specific sites across the nation, says Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy.
McCoy got that information at a recent FBI conference in Springfield. He shares that snippet of intelligence not to panic central Illinois, but to stress what the FBI told police at the conference: America, including much of its law-enforcement community, has not taken seriously enough the threat of al-Qaida in this country.
"Police and Americans don't understand," McCoy says. "...
They hate you. ... They are so focused on what they're doing, time is no object. They're patient."
The speaker at the police seminar was an FBI interrogator who served in the Lebanese military and speaks several dialects of Arabic. Those qualifications helped him to question 150 terrorism-related detainees at Guantanamo Bay."