Updated at: 0258 PST, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 NEW YORK: Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided homes in the New York City borough of Queens in connection with a counterterrorism investigation, US police said on Monday. Congressional sources confirmed lawmakers in Washington were to receive a full briefing on the raid late Monday afternoon. "The operation was in Queens. There were some raids in some residences there," Martin Speechlay, a spokesman for New York City police, told media. "It was a federal operation, we were assisting them." In Washington, a Senate aide told media that lawmakers were being briefed on the raid."Apparently the Homeland Security Committee is getting briefed today at 5:00 pm (2100 GMT)," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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