I don't think we just so happened to capture someone in Iraq who knew about upcoming bombing plot. The information on NYC was culled from Joel Hinrich's computer... the timing matches perfectly with the seizure of his computer/documents... however, if the media wants me to believe we found a needle in a haystack in iraq who knew something about a bomb plot, I guess I will fall in line.
The more likely train of events would be that the emails on Hinrich's computer were back-traced to Iraq, where a special FBI-CIA team lead a raid...said raid captured the right computer there, which had emails going to NYC...hence, the terror alert there.
The OU bomber was too low on the food chain to have the NYC emails...but his computer would have yielded the necessary clues (presuming that the press didn't blow the case too soon) to get to the Zarqawi communicator in Iraq.
NYC Update:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/53446.htm
The tip that triggered the massive security sweep came from two al Qaeda militants arrested this week in a joint FBI-CIA-U.S. military raid outside Baghdad, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The terrorists were described as unemployed chemists who had recently taken a six-week explosive training course in Afghanistan.
The al Qaeda snitches also told U.S. officials that they planned to travel to New York, by way of Syria, with bogus passports.
Once here, they would meet up with 19 operatives who had already been sent to New York to help set off the bombs, the sources said.
The bombs would either be hidden in baby carriages or planted in briefcases similar to those used in this summer's London bus and train bombings.
USC/Notre Dame game coming in a week at South Bend. What Satan-worshipping Islamist wouldn't want to cause panic in a packed stadium under the image of Touchdown Jesus? I would consider it a crackpot theory unti last week. Disaffected white men are probably most accessible on college campuses...