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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 how far along this was, officials say no indication that anything was imminent or anything had been pu...

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 laden's support network within pakistan. what we've 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 laden's idea, back in february 2010, to launch a rail plot inside the united states directly to coincide with the tenth anniversary of nine reform....

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. let's begin with tonight's biggest breaking news. more clues of potential al qaeda attacks and new clues of a far more active bin laden role than most u.s. officials believed possible the past few years. let's turn to o...

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 it's more than a year old, and from everything we're told, this never really got beyond the planning stage, never became operational in any way or at least u.s. intelligence doesn't have evidence of that at this point. but that being said, because some of the initial data gleaned from the compound did indicate that this -- that there had been talk about such a plot, the department of homeland security put somethin...

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 i'm 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 anniversary, which was mentioned in the rail plot but in addition july 4th, christmas, and also the o...