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Democratic congressman adam sheriff who was a member of the house intelligence committee and getting some of these briefings. congressman, what can you tell us publicly about what you know and what you understand about this plot? >> what i understand is there's a high level of confidence in the sources of information on it. we get chatter all the time. it's often very nonspecific. sometimes it's from less than credible sources. to take this kind of a broad action, to shut down this many embassies over this broad terrain, to have multiple briefings to the president in the course sometimes of a ...

Penn station to toronto every year. and the service crosses one of the most spectacular bridges in north america. sources tell abc news the plan involved planting bombs to blow up tracks and derail the trains. >> by derailing a train they were actually -- we were looking at a real threat to kill people, hurt people. >> reporter: the two arrested suspects had allegedly begun surveillance of trains in the toronto area, but authorities had been watching them since august of last year and the plot was disrupted before it became operational. here is one of the suspects in handcuffs, escorted by pol...

Sources tell abc news the plan involved planting bombs to blow up tracks and derail the trains. >> by derailing a train they were actually -- we were looking at a real threat to kill people, hurt people. >> reporter: the two arrested suspects had allegedly begun surveillance of trains in the toronto area, but authorities had been watching them since august of last year and the plot was disrupted before it became operational. here is one of the suspects in handcuffs, escorted by police. and an unexpected twist. canadian authorities claim there is a link to al qaeda and iran. >> the significance...

We'll find out. >> sure does. canadian authorities say they have prevented a deadly terror attack in the making. two men are akigsed of plotting to blow up tracks and derail a passenger train from new york to toronto. police say the suspects had trains under surveillance. they were allegedly aiming to kill hundreds of people. it appears they weren't acting alone. >> the significance of this investigation was that it involved domestic attack planning being supported by al qaeda. >> now those al qaeda ties were traced to iran. authorities had been watching those men since last summer. they say...

Diplomatic sources say the courier was a kuwaiti named abi ahmad. cbs reports that ahmad would are you teenly turn his cell phone off when he was close to the abbottabad compound, which is why it took them so close to find it. >> i can tell you that the intelligence was acquired over the last nine years or so, and there was some painstaking work done by some very, very dedicated analysts who were putting together the pieces of information. >> officials are now giving specifics on information recovered from the compound, as well. ten hard drives they say, five computers, and over 100 disks, dvd...