Justice Dept. Honors Terror Prosecutors
WASHINGTON -- Top Justice Department honors were awarded Wednesday to 18 law enforcement officials involved in the prosecution of what the government labeled an al-Qaida "sleeper" cell in upstate New York.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said the prosecution of the so-called "Lackawanna Six" was among the landmark achievements in preventing another catastrophic event since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"For almost two years, Americans have felt for themselves the quiet safety and growing security that come from our work together," Ashcroft said at the department's 51st annual awards ceremony. "We are disrupting the networks of terror, but we must remember we have not destroyed them."
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