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The War on Terror, 2004

COLLINS: For this week's "On Terror's Trail," we go to Washington where the FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a new intelligence bulletin this week to the nation's police agencies. It outlined new details about al Qaeda surveillance inside the United States.

An al Qaeda operative, known as Al-Britani, is believed to have cased particular U.S. financial institutions for 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. When we looked back on the year in the global war on terror Monday, CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen called the Britani capture the most significant terrorist arrest of 2004.

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Militants give Abbas enthusiastic greeting
By Steven Erlanger The New York Times
Friday, December 31, 2004

Show of unity masks internal disputes

TEL AVIV Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian presidency, campaigned Thursday in a Jenin refugee camp, where he was lifted on the shoulders of gunmen and made welcome by a militant leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Zakariya Zubeidi, one of Israel's most wanted men.

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