text: FBI makes first arrests in terror investigation | Daily Mail Online
  FBI makes first arrests in terror investigation
  Police in America tonight made the first arrests in the investigation into the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
  Several people were held at gunpoint in a hotel in Boston, the city from which the two hijacked flights which slammed into the World Trade Centre in New York, killing thousands, left.
  And more people were taken into custody in southern Florida, where FBI agents and local police were concentrating their efforts on flying schools with flight simulators and were said to be "very interested" in one student at Huffmann Aviation School in the state.
  In Boston, there was an hour of drama as police with automatic weapons, guns drawn and riot shields moved in force into the Westin Copley Hotel in the centre of the city, going to an upper floor in the hotel.
  Reports from Boston said several people were taken into custody as the raid proceeded. The number of arrests was not known.
  American Justice Department sources told CNN they were among "several" people taken into custody because they had "material information" about the case.
  It was unclear if they had been formally arrested or were being held because of their value as sources of information.
  The arrests came after it was reported police had found a hired car with Arabic aircraft training manuals and a copy of the Koran in a car parking area in Boston Logan airport.
  Forensic agents were going over chairs in the airport looking for DNA evidence and it was unlikely it would re-open in the near future.
  Investigators checking the passenger list of the four hijacked jet planes have found the name of a supporter of Osama bin Laden on one of them.
  Five Arab men - one of them a pilot - had earlier been identified as suspects, the Boston Herald reported.
  Two of the men were brothers whose passports were traced to the United Arab Emirates and one of the men was a trained pilot, the paper reported.
  Sources told the newspaper that investigators suspect the two brothers were aboard hijacked United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into the World Trade Centre.
  At least two other suspects flew to Logan on Tuesday from Maine, where authorities believe they had travelled after crossing over from Canada recently.