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Terror raids in three states resulting in three arrests as the fbi traces the money trail in the times square bomb plot. a source close to the investigation tells cnn the focus is on so-called cash couriers, funneling money from overseas to finance terrorist operations here in the united states. we're covering all angles of the story this hour. our national correspondent, susan candiotti, cnn's jim acosta, homeland security correspondent, jeanne meserve, cnn's deborah feyerick, all of them are watching what's going on. let's begin with susan candiotti, first. what do we know about these arre...

Approaches, including the possibility of designating suspects as enemy combatants to allow for lengthier intertkpwaeugs who could thwart terrorist operations and future attacks. it's not a good day at the white house when the "work ton post" criticize criticizes you. >> reporter: maybe they are not as hreurl as conservatives always say they are. gregg: come on. do you read their editorial page. >> reporter: yes, you just lead from the editorial page. gregg: and it dropped my jaw when i read it. i fell to the floor. >> maybe we ought to stop calling them liberal. that is not a procivil libertie...

Conduct some high-profile attacks. but it no longer in any way reflects the broad-based insurgency that it did in 2006. today, i consider it to be a covert terrorist organization, only capable of conducting covert terrorist operations. and frankly, as they've continued to do this over the last months, all they do is continue to alienate the iraqi population. and the iraqi population has clearly rejected al qaeda here in iraq. >> bottom line, mission accomplished? >> not yet. and as i say, i've been saying for a very long time here, we won't know if we were successful here until three, five or ...

At more senior levels of the insurgency. >> how significant is al qaeda in iraq right now? >> well, it's still able to conduct some high profile attacks. but it no longer in any way reflects the broad-based insurgency it did in 2006. today, i consider it to be a covert terrorist organization capable only of conducting covert terrorist operations. frankly, as they have continued to do this over the last months, all they do is continue to alienate the iraqi population. and the iraqi population has clearly rejected al qaeda here in iraq. >> bottom line, mission accomplished? >> not yet. as i say,...

Difficult. this administration's effort to stop terror from spreading in africa, how influential, potentially influential can she be on this front? >> she'll be influential as any diplomat can. what i say, fred, the couple of nations you mentioned are important and the issues that she's going to address are important. but let me state this. there are 54 different countries in africa. each one of them has their own challenges. if you were to take a map of the united states, you could overlay it on africa three times. that's how large the continent is. and the various challenges that africa have...