AFP
Wednesday, Dec 30th, 2009
US officials are keeping mostly mum on what they have
gleaned from a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a
Detroit-bound airplane despite criticism that they are leaving a
frightened public in the dark.
Experts said Tuesday that the paucity of public pronouncements will
help investigators track down his associates and build a stronger
criminal case.
“They don’t want to reveal all that they know and they
don’t want Al-Qaeda to know what it is that this guy is actually
saying and how much he’s cooperating,” said Stephen
Saltzburg, a former top prosecutor who teaches law at George Washington
University.
“They want Al-Qaeda to be guessing about what they don’t
know and they do know and — depending on what he’s saying
— there may be some retaliatory moves they might make that might
not be as effective if people knew they were in the offing.”
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