Despite claims that the recent terror alert effecting Washington and New York was released for political purposes, new information reveals chilling details of al-Qaeda’s plans to attack financial and political targets in the U.S. On July 24 Pakistani authorities stormed the house of an al-Qaeda leader and captured three laptop computers and 51 data-rich discs. TIME reports that “stored on the computers were 500 photographs of potential targets inside the U.S., minutely detailed analyses of the vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack of several of them and communications among some of the most wanted terrorists in the world.” A top Homeland...