Complexity Digest 2004.33 - 19.02

16-Aug-2004

Police Tactic Against Terror: Let's Network, NY Times Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: The city's counterterrorism investigators have been cultivating contacts with businesses that might become unwitting parts of a terror plot.(...)

In January, their mission was to speak before a mosquito sprayers' convention in Harrisburg, Pa. In April, the detectives attended a meeting of self-storage business owners (...). This summer, they were in Naples, Fla., mingling with propane gas vendors (...).

Called Operation Nexus, the program has focused on particular types of businesses based on intelligence that the department has culled from sources like an Al Qaeda manual for terrorist operatives (...).