New York, NY – Terrorist Used NY Public Library Computer, To communicate With Al-Qaeda Associates.

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New York, NY – Many who angrily questioned the FBI tactics of investigating public library records of borrowers deemed suspicious, found their arguments sharply rebuffed by today’s NY Post editorial:

The testimony of “turned” al Qaeda member Mohammed Junaid Babar was critical in Monday’s terror convictions in London. But New Yorkers might want to focus on how Babar used the city as his headquarters while supporting terror on three continents.

The New York Public Library was extremely useful for Babar. In 2004, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told the U.S. Senate that Babar used the NYPL’s public computers. “We found out after we locked this guy up that he was going there because that library’s hard drives were scrubbed after each user was done, and he was using that library to e-mail other al Qaeda associates around the world. He knew that that was a sanctuary.”

The pepole should realize that Babar was nabbed because the U.S. authorities were willing to patiently pursue the kinds of vague-seeming tips and slender information that critics of the War on Terror routinely dismiss. In anti-terrorism as in other crime-fighting efforts, the smallest clue may end up providing the biggest break.” [NYpost editorial]