“Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a television appearance this morning [October 14, 2001], said law enforcement officials were convinced that Al Qaeda members remained at large in the United States and were actively planning additional attacks on American soil… ‘I believe that it’s very unlikely that all of those individuals that were associated with or involved with the terrorism events of September the 11th and other terrorism events that may have been prepositioned and preplanned have been apprehended,’ Mr. Ashcroft said on the NBC program ‘Meet the Press.’ ”
– Don Van Natta Jr., “Some Terror Cells Broken Up in U.S., Investigators Say,” The New York Times, Oct. 15, 2001