Will it produce fresh leads on al-Qaida?
Reyes's arrest offers investigators fresh leads into finding the hidden bodies.
Years have passed without fresh leads, videos or phone calls from their kidnappers.
Around 60 calls came in as a result, but there have been no fresh leads.
In the meantime, interrogations conducted by the presiding magistrate, Guido Salvini, and chief prosecutor, Roberto Di Martino, have provided fresh leads.
But Mr. Comen was hopeful that The Villager and the Queens Tribune, two neighborhood weeklies he approached to publicize his search, would produce fresh leads.
It provides some solace, and possibly fresh leads, to the American teams that have been conducting an otherwise fruitless search for the weapons for more than a year.
Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. conducted a telephone conference with the heads of the bureau's 56 field offices telling them to re-examine terrorism cases for fresh leads.
South Yorkshire police confirmed its officers planned to return to the Greek Island of Kos, where the 21-month-old went missing in 1991, to excavate two sites after fresh leads.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is re-examining terror cases for fresh leads and is interviewing, and in some cases, re-interviewing, possible Qaeda sympathizers in the United States, the officials said.
He could help if he collaborates, either to confirm elements of the investigation, or to give fresh leads," said Gérard Chemla, a lawyer representing 50 of the Paris victims and their families.
