A senior FBI official says authorities have disrupted 35 terrorist-related incidents since the September 11, 2001, attacks. “These include both domestic and international terrorism matters and consist of a variety of preventive actions, including arrests, seizure of funds and disruption of terrorist recruiting and training efforts and even, in certain cases, the prevention of actual attacks,” said Larry Mefford, assistant director of counterterrorism for the FBI. He was testifying Thursday before a Senate judiciary subcommittee. FBI officials declined to offer more details about the incidents. Mefford said that investigations are ongoing in about 40 states against what he called al Qaeda “members and their affiliates.” Previously, government sources have said several hundred people in the country are under surveillance as suspected operatives or sympathizers. Full Story