The investigation that led to the searches last week began when a customs official intercepted an air shipment of 1,250 ebony fingerboards in Dallas on June 22, according to an affidavit filed in support of the search warrant.
Officials intercepted a grizzly making its way to the feast.
Mr. Abdallah was captured after law enforcement officials intercepted one package and set up a sting.
"They tried to lose us," Officer Chris Maher, who was in the helicopter, said, but officers and federal police officials intercepted the men on land.
The Saudi warning came days after American officials intercepted several packages in mid-September that contained books, papers, CDs and other household items shipped to Chicago from Yemen.
The conspiracy came to light in late 2002, Ms. Mauskopf said, after customs officials intercepted several shipments of cocaine on Universal Airlines flights from Guyana.
But, as you report, Italian officials intercepted one of the shipments in 2003, and Libya ended up agreeing to abandon all weapons of mass destruction in exchange for an eventual end to economic sanctions.
For all its power, however, Carnivore cannot digest all that it eats: if law enforcement officials intercept a message that has been encrypted, they will get a featureless fuzz of ones and zeroes.
A1 BEHIND THE WARNINGS -- Government officials intercepted recent telephone conversations in which members of the Al Qaeda terror network spoke of an imminent attack against American targets even larger than the Sept. 11 attacks.
According to The Times, officials intercepted electronic communications in which the leader of Al Qaeda in Pakistan, Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden, ordered Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the leader of the terrorist group's most lethal branch in Yemen, to carry out an attack as early as this past Sunday.
