Study: Terror prosecutions at pre-Sept. 11 levels

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WASHINGTON - The federal government has fallen back to prosecuting international terrorists at about the same rate it did before the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a study based on Justice Department data.

The surprising decline followed a sharp increase in such criminal prosecutions in the year after the attacks, according to a study released Sunday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data research group at Syracuse University.