Second US Arrest in Terror Probe: ReportA second person has been arrested as part of the huge investigation into Tuesday's terror attacks in the United States.The unidentified man was taken into custody in an apartment in New Jersey across the Hudson River from New York, said Jersey City Police Director James Carter. No details of any charges have been disclosed, but the man was detained on a similar "material witness" warrant to a man arrested on Friday in connection with the attacks. Describing him as a man of "Middle Eastern origin", the FBI says it believes he may have useful information on the hijacking of aircraft used in the New York and Washington attacks. On Friday, a Justice Department spokeswoman said more arrest warrants were in the pipeline. Two other men are reported to have been picked up in Fort Worth, Texas, and flown to New York for questioning. Investigators have identified 19 men they say carried out the attacks, which destroyed the World Trade Center and badly damaged the Pentagon. The FBI said most of the suspects, all presumed dead, had addresses in the US and a number of them were qualified pilots. Since Tuesday, the bureau has been alerted to more than 36,000 potential leads and has interviewed hundreds of people. Much of the early evidence is said to point to Saudi militant Osama Bin Laden, whom federal officials believe masterminded the attacks. Four thousand FBI agents are now working on the investigation, and there is concern that more terrorists are already in the country planning further attacks. A list of more than 100 names has been circulated to airlines, police departments and border patrols. Our correspondent says that such is the level of anxiety that flights at a Chicago airport came to a standstill when two men with names similar to those on the list were stopped by police. About 25 people questioned in connection with the attacks are still in custody suspected of immigration offences, Reuters news agency reports. Those held are among the list of more than 100 people the FBI believes could help with its investigation. In a separate development, a group of Chinese journalists is reported to have been expelled from the US for applauding when they saw Tuesday's attacks on television. "On September 14, we curtailed the visit of a group from China under the International Visitor Program," a State Department official told the AFP news agency. It is not known where the Chinese journalists were when the incident occurred. German authorities say two of the men named by the FBI as hijackers were one-time Hamburg residents, while in Switzerland the authorities say they are searching for evidence that the hijackers may have used the country as a transit point. |
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