Just one intelligence success like this may have saved thousands

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Who says our Worldwide War on Terror is not working?

One or two successes like this one makes it all worthwhile, and those who poo poo our efforts are once again proven wrong.

The public doesn't know a fraction of what this administration, the military, and our intelligence community is doing. And you will never know if your life was one of those we saved. But our efforts are working.

The CIA provided information that led to the arrest (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040802.wterr0802/BNStory/International/)

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Examples of the detail the official cited: midweek pedestrian traffic counts of 14 people per minute on each side of the street for a total of 28 people. The official said he had not seen such extraordinary detail in his 24 years in intelligence work.

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Um... we didn't get this info, Pakistan did. Pakistan & Saudi Arabia are having their own problems with the same fanatics that we are, they are just helping out. Our CIA guys had nothing to do with it.

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Um... we didn't get this info, Pakistan did.

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Pakistan arrested the guy (since he was in their country) but the information leading to that arrest came from us. Here is a quote from the article:

An example of that international co-operation, Sunday's warning stems in large part from Pakistan's capture of an al-Qaeda operative several weeks ago, a U.S. counterterrorism official said, speaking only anonymously because of the sensitive nature of the information.

The CIA provided information that led to the arrest; officials would not identify the person.

So The CIA provided information that led to the arrest, but this is a team effort with our allies so we do not need to compete on this issue. Here's another quote:

[b]“The quality of this intelligence – based on multiple reporting streams, in multiple locations – is rarely seen, and it is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,” Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Sunday