Trail Plot News Today

Night, and the potential terror alerts already, and you are looking at one at the trains. jeanne meserve with us. i know you have new information on the al qaeda plans and tell me how far along was the plan and what did it involve? >> well, first, discussing the rail plot specifically, we are told that the information about this came from a hand-written document and the u.s. official says that there is reason to believe that the information from the writings of osama bin laden, himself. as to ho...

That review, first and foremost, looking for actional intelligence, this is intelligence that you can act on and do something with. the second is that they were looking for new leads on al-qaeda operatives and new leads on bin ladens support network within pakistan. what weve seen in the last 24 hours is that some of this actional intelligence has now been shared with other members of intelligence community, specifically this information that bin ladens idea, back in february 2010, to launch a r...

In addition to evidence al qaeda is planning new attacks, administration and other intelligence forces tell us tonight there are clues to al qaeda operations around the world and perhaps clues to where top bin laden deputies are hiding. finding them is urgent anyway. all the more so tonight as al qaeda acknowledges bin laden is dead and begins its process of naming a successor. lets begin with tonights biggest breaking news. more clues of potential al qaeda attacks and new clues of a far more ac...

On the u.s. rail system. how far along were those kind of plans do you think? >> not very. remember that the intelligence about this rail plot actually goes back to february 2010, so its more than a year old, and from everything were told, this never really got beyond the planning stage, never became operational in any way or at least u.s. intelligence doesnt have evidence of that at this point. but that being said, because some of the initial data gleaned from the compound did indicate that thi...

The anniversary of 9/11 in september in new york, washington, chicago, los angeles. what do we know about that. >> well the rail information as im told did not mention any specific city. but there was other material found and in that other material there are indications that al qaeda still wanted to hit one of those big cities that you mentioned, those big four. in addition that they were interested in hitting on highly symbolic dates. some of the things that were mentioned to me are the 9/11 an...

Relationship. nic, thank you. we also learned today about videotapes seized from bin ladens compound. this could be another key discovery after the united states finds evidence of a terror plot targeting trains, railroads, and metro systems in our country. jeanne meserve is following this. >> reporter: on this rail plot, weve now been told this was a handwritten document that was found in that compound over in pakistan, and u.s. official tells us there is reason to believe that this came from th...