As a band of trained terrorists plotted to blow up the World Trade Center, clues to the devastation ahead lay under the nose of law enforcement officials.

Thanks to the work of our law enforcement officials and coalition partners, hundreds of terrorists have been arrested, yet tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still at large.

"Hopeless to think they could survive against a heavy force of trained terrorists."

We estimate it took anywhere from four hundred to a thousand trained terrorists.

"41 One of the al-Qaeda trainees was called "a pillar of the neighborhood"42 - also "too fat to be a trained terrorist.

A trained terrorist is not like a stupid criminal.

A number of its senior leaders and many trained terrorists remain at large.

One of the men, they say, is too fat to be a trained terrorist.

"To a trained terrorist, airport security is about as viable as what you have at a laundromat," Mr. Boyd said.

"Mohamed implied that trained terrorists don't order their people to blow things up," an F.B.I. document says.