The authorities released few other details about the attacks, acknowledging only that "multiple weapons" were used, and that the five people in custody included men and women.
Zacarias Moussaoui, charged as a co-conspirator in the Sept. 11 attacks, acknowledged in court papers made public today that he was "indeed a Muslim fundamentalist openly hostile to the Jews and the United States of America".
Admiral Soemu Toyoda, the Chief of the Naval General Staff, estimated that no more than one or two additional bombs could be readied, so they decided to endure the remaining attacks, acknowledging "there would be more destruction but the war would go on".
NATO, in an apologetic statement after the attack, acknowledged that nine civilians had been killed.
Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born naturalized United States citizen who has been charged in the attack, acknowledged that the group had trained him for the operation.
Even as the United States begins a large-scale troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Salerno attack, acknowledged at the time only in terse official statements, and others like it have cemented the Haqqani network's standing as the most ominous threat to the fragile American-Pakistani relationship, officials from both countries say.
While we believe that these efforts will enable us to respond aggressively and effectively in the event of a future bioterrorist attack, we acknowledge that inherent to terrorism is the unknown.
The system for training, equipping, mobilizing and deploying reservists was not ready for the historic increase in call-ups since the Sept. 11 attacks, officials acknowledged.
"The bullying is much less a factor than people make it out to be," he said, noting that bullies were rarely victims of attacks – and acknowledging that bullying was so common that its influence was difficult to measure.
The Santorum campaign simply can't respond in kind to the Romney camp's attacks, he acknowledged, so his goal with "Rombo" was to "make it that every time someone sees their negative ads they think about this ad, and it backfires on them".
