Also on the table is the bill approving the administration's five-year-old program for tapping U.S. phones without a warrant if a call comes in from a suspected terrorist overseas.

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Intelligence officials believe al Qaeda is in the final stages of planning a large-scale attack overseas, officials said in the conference call.

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Though he has had some interest from overseas, his inquiries typically come from wealthy types looking for a unique place to call home--or members of the Society for Creative Anachronisms , a medieval reenactment group.

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For instance, the U.S. intelligence community can target phone calls of an Iraqi citizen overseas, but that person's call to someone in Pakistan might be routed through a telecommunications switch in the United States.

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