ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Pakistan took credit Monday for providing information that resulted in the U.S. terror alert level being raised in Washington and the New York City area.
Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed did not provide details, but he told the BBC computer files and other materials seized from an al-Qaida suspect last week contained substantial information on possible attacks on buildings in the United States and Britain.
The plans were said to have been found in e-mails on a computer owned by Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was taken into custody after a gun battle with Pakistani officials last week.
The BBC said U.S. intelligence analysts apparently were able to unscramble information in the encrypted computer files supplied by Pakistan.
The Tanzanian-born Ghailani is a suspect in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa.
