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Part 2 of 2 parts
Summoned to Capitol Hill, Neil Gallagher, the FBI's
counterterrorism chief, briefed members of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee about the case behind closed doors.
Lawmakers were told "it will be some time before there are any
hard conclusions" about who set the bomb, said a committee source,
who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It will be "a couple of weeks before they even form some
theories," the source said. There is not enough evidence to enable
investigators to determine whether the bombing was the work of
domestic or international terrorists, such as the Libyans charged
with blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, killing 270 people.
British police and FBI agents spent months assembling the debris
of the destroyed airliner from a wide swath across Scotland. This
time, the wreckage is confined to an underground garage.
FBI Director William S. Sessions, meanwhile, was questioned about
the case during closed appearance before the House Intelligence
Committee.
At the State Department, officials checked the agency's databases
on international terrorist groups for information that could prove
significant in the bombing investigation. Officials also are combing
data for any intelligence, including communications intercepts,
which may shed light on the blast.