Police told CNN they clearly link the six Algerians to suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

CNN: Police: 2 Tunisians linked in plot against U.S. targets in Europe

While technology can certainly be a force multiplier for good or evil, it's difficult to imagine a pure A.I. approach reverse-engineering the machinations of a terrorist mastermind.

CNN: People and computers need each other

The U.S. military has transferred Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi, the captured al Qaeda leader who once ran terrorist mastermind bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan, to the USS Bataan in the Arabian Sea.

CNN: Support promised for Afghanistan