Dang...did you just hear on CNN..that they had talked to some people in Chicago but none of them have been arrested..yet.
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Breaking news - Feds: Terror suspects targeted Sears Tower
By Michael Tackett - Tribune senior correspondent Published June 22, 2006, 8:50 PM CDT
WASHINGTON -- Federal agents in Miami, in an effort to crack down on an alleged terrorist ring, arrested seven men Thursday who had "aspirations" but "no means" to attack the Sears Tower in Chicago, a senior federal law enforcement source said.
The men had been plotting for an undetermined amount of time but their scheme was thwarted well before there was any threat that could be carried out.
"There was no threat at all," the senior law enforcement source said, referring to the Sears Tower.
FBI agents, along with state and local law enforcement officials, cordoned off an area of Liberty City, a Miami neighborhood, Thursday evening in raids that officials described as a significant terror-related investigation.
FBI Director Robert Mueller, speaking on CNN, said, "I can tell you that we do have an ongoing operation in Miami. We are conducting a number of arrests and searches and we'll have more about that when the operation is concluded, probably tomorrow morning."
Mueller added that "whenever we undertake an operation like this, we would not do it without the approval of a judge. We've got search warrants and arrest warrants and the like."
The agents were conducting an operation at the Scott Housing projects in the area of 15th Avenue and Northwest 62nd Street. Several streets were cordoned off. A Miami police department SWAT team assisted federal agents in the search.
Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales and top FBI officials are to discuss the case in more detail at a news conference Friday in Washington, D.C.
"They had aspirations...a lot of talking," said the senior federal law enforcement source. "But they had no means."
A Chicago Police official said authorities had been notified by federal officials of the plot.