As far as the cnn news, it will be interesting to see what they come up with and how it relates to all of this.
Perhaps the true threat involves multiple plans.
I also worry that when info such as this is released it may cause the thugs to speed up their plans.
Excerpt from the article you posted:
"The FBI is monitoring suspected Al Qaeda operatives and members of two allied terror groups in the New York City area, the top-ranking FBI official in New York said Tuesday.
Pasquale D'Amuro, head New York office and a veteran terrorism investigator, said the individuals under scrutiny include people linked to al-Qaida as well as Ansar al Islam and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the New York Daily News reported.
He said the monitoring began long before last weekend's heightened alert was announced. While officials have said in the past that they were watching a handful of al-Qaida suspects in the country, they have not said they were in the New York metropolitan area.
The people under FBI surveillance inside the United States include financiers for Ansar al-Islam, the senior Justice Department official said. These people and others described as operatives of al Qaida and Egyptian Islamic Jihad have not been directly linked to any specific threat against U.S. financial buildings."