U.S. Officials Detain Man Linked to Suspected Terrorist
SONIA RUSELER, CNN ANCHOR: First, we have breaking news this hour in the U.S. on the terrorism investigation, and here's CNN's justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas. Pierre, what have you learned?</s>PIERRE THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sonia, we have some new information coming out of Seattle, Washington. U.S. officials have in custody another man who is thought to be an associate of Ahmed Ressam. The gentleman has been identified Youssef Karroum. He was detained yesterday at a boarder crossing in Blaine, Washington. Now, they did an initial swipe on the vehicle that he was using, and this initial swipe suggested that there might have been a nitroglycerin-like substance in the car. I should qualify that by saying additional tests are being done to see if that is a false positive that sometimes occurs. He was on the FBI look-out list as a possible associate of Ahmed Ressam. Again this is information that's just coming, and it is unclear how much, if anything, he knows about what Mr. Ressam is suspected of. Ahmed Ressam, you'll recall, was arrested on December 14th for allegedly trying to smuggle explosives into the United States.</s>RUSELER: Pierre Thomas, thanks. That investigation clearly ongoing.