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WASHINGTON (CNN) - U.S. officials confirmed on Tuesday that another significant al Qaeda figure was captured in the weekend raid in Pakistan that nabbed suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mustapha Ahmed al-Hawsawi, a man who officials say sent cash to lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta through bank accounts in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, was captured along with a Pakistani man said to be of little importance during the raid that netted Mohammed , al Qaeda's operations chief. An official told CNN that Al-Hawsawi is "not a huge fish, but he is not insignificant and he may know things." The identity of the new U.S. prisoner was first reported by The New York Times. Al-Hawsawi, also known as Mustafa Ahmed, has been named as a coconspirator in the indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui, who is accused of engaging in the "same preparation for murder" as the 19 hijackers who commandeered four U.S. jets and crashed them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania. AI-Hawsawi's phone number was also found on a Federal Express package sent by Atta in early September 2001 from Florida to the U.A.E. The number was also used as a point of contact for a wire transfer to Ramzi Binalshibh, who was arrested in Pakistan in September 2002, and has admitted a role in planning the attacks.

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Suspected al-Qaeda operative arrested LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Building on information from a captured lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, Pakistani authorities captured another suspected key al-Qaeda figure Saturday — a man U.S. government sources say oversees communication among the terror network's operatives. The suspect, Yassir al-Jaziri, was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press, saying alJaziri is among the leading terrorists wanted by the United States. American government sources familiar with the arrest confirmed al-Jaziri was captured by Pakistani authorities near Lahore on Saturday. He is not on the FBI's mostwanted list. U.S. and Pakistani forces have intensified their search for al-Qaeda's leadership — including bin Laden himself — in Pakistan since the group's suspected No. 3 man, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was arrested March 1 . Security forces have been combing the region along the Afghan border for bin Laden after Mohammed told his interrogators he met the terror chief there recently. Ahmed told AP that information garnered from Mohammed led to the arrest of al-Jaziri. The U.S. sources said American intelligence provided information that led to the arrest, but Americans did not participate in his actual capture, the sources said.

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f Select for FOCUS™ or Delivery The New York Times, December 7, 2000 Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company The New York Times December 7, 2000, Thursday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 3; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 941 words HEADLINE: Suspect in New Year's Terror Plot Is Arrested in Algeria BYLINE: By JUDITH MILLER BODY: A fugitive charged with plotting terrorist attacks in the United States over the New Year's holidays last winter has been quietly arrested in Algeria, Clinton administration officials said yesterday. Officials said that Abdelmajid Dahoumane, a 33-year-old Algerian sought by American and Canadian authorities for almost a year, was arrested in Algeria less than two months ago. Last April, the United States and Canada offered up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest and conviction. In an indictment issued last January, prosecutors for the United States attorney's office in Seattle accused Mr. Dahoumane of being an accomplice of Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian indicted for plotting a "terrorist act" in the United States. The plot was foiled on Dec. 14, 1999, when border agents in Port Angeles, Wash., arrested Mr. Ressam as he tried to cross the Canadian border in a car loaded with explosives and four homemade detonators. According to officials, Mr. Dahoumane and Mr. Ressam shared a hotel room in Vancouver, Canada, during the month before Mr. Ressam's attempt to cross the border and may have made the explosives together. Officials said they believed that several members of the Algerian group had been members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria, whose members have killed thousands of their fellow countrymen in that country's civil war. Officials said that the Algerian police have been questioning Mr. Dahoumane not only about his activities with Mr. Ressam before the millennial celebrations in Canada and the United States, but also about his possible links to a terrorist network believed to be headed by Osama bin Laden — whom the United States has accused of the 1998 bombing of two embassies in Africa in which more than 200 people died — or at least his knowledge of the network. American officials suspect that Mr. bin Laden's group was involved in assisting Mr. Ressam and his alleged conspirators with attempted terrorism in the United States and with a separate bombing plot in Jordan. But officials said that information collected so far about Mr. bin Laden's possible involvement in the American plot was inconclusive.

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SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 6; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 1099 words HEADLINE: EVIDENCE IS SEEN LINKING BIN LADEN TO ALGERIAN GROUP BYLINE: This article was reported by David Johnston, Judith Miller and William K. Rashbaum and written by Mr. Johnston. BODY: American investigators have uncovered what they believe are links between Algerians who have been charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the United States and Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi accused of bombing two American Embassies in East Africa, law enforcement officials said yesterday. In recent days, the authorities in Senegal arrested a man who American investigators believe directed an Algerian group in Canada in its effort to enter the United States and carry out a bomb plot late last year. The investigators said the man being held in Senegal, Mohambedou Ould Slahi, is a brother-in-law_of_oneofMr. bin Laden's key lieutenants. Officials said that federal prosecutors in Manhattan are preparing formal charges against MrTSlahi, which could be used as the basis for his extradition. In making the arrest, the Senegalese were acting on a request from the United States. But he has not been charged with a crime in either Senegal or the United States. The bomb plot was foiled on Dec. 14 when border agents in Port Angeles, Wash., arrested a man who had been driving a car loaded with explosives and four homemade detonators. Officials said they had no specific evidence that Mr. bin Laden set the operation in motion. But investigators said they had found several ties to what they believed to be Mr. bin Laden's worldwide network. Officials disclosed, for example, that one of the men charged in the case had a roommate who was associated with an Islamic charity that prosecutors said played a role in the embassy bombings. Mr. bin Laden has been charged with directing those attacks, which killed more than 200. A host of questions remain about the bomb plot, which appears to have been centered in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Vancouver. To date, federal prosecutors have charged four Algerians with taking part, but they remain uncertain what the target was. Still, American officials said this week that the case has turned into the biggest counterterrorism inquiry since the embassy bombings. That earlier case has resulted in criminal charges against 17 people. Officials said that federal agents were en route to Senegal yesterday to question Mr. Slahi. They said the government in Senegal appeared unwilling to hold him without specific charges and was preparing to expel him, possibly to his homeland, neighboring Mauritania.

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SECTION: Section A; Page 4; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 837 words HEADLINE: Terror Suspect Is Rearrested In Africa at U.S. Request BYLINE: By DAVID JOHNSTON DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 BODY: A leading suspect in an aborted terrorist plot, who the authorities believe is linked to the Osama bin Laden terror network, has been arrested in Mauritania, after he was briefly detained and released in Senegal, law enforcement officials said today. The suspect, Mohambedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritania native, was held by the Mauritanian security service in Nouakchott, the capital of the West African nation, after he was released in neighboring Senegal. He was detained in Mauritania, as he was in Senegal, at the request of the American authorities. Today federal law enforcement officials said they were eager to interview Mr. Ould Slahi, but so far prosecutors have yet to charge him with a crime. It was not clear whether prosecutors were ready to accuse him in the plot, a step that would provide a legal basis for bringing him to the United States for trial. Until last week, Mr. Ould Slahi had been living in Montreal, where he met with several people suspected in the bombing plot, and before that he resided hi Germany. Interviews in those places suggested that Mr. Ould Slahi did not seem to be a militant firebrand. Associates said he was a devout Muslim who attended mosque every day and kept his political beliefs to himself. The New Year's bomb plot was uncovered last month when an Algerian, Ahmed Ressam, was arrested at Port Angeles, Wash., as he tried to enter the United States on a ferry from Canada driving a car carrying explosives and four timing devices. American officials suspect that Mr. Ould Slahi may have been an organizer of the plot and theorize that he may have been a conduit for the bin Laden organization. Last fall Mr. Ould Slahi traveled to Montreal, where he met frequently with Mokhtar Haouri, another Algerian charged with directing Mr. Ressam in the plan. Bahaa Elbatal, the secretary at the mosque in Montreal where Mr. Ould Slahi lived for about a month before he left for Africa, said Mr. Ould Slahi was a prayer leader. He said Mr. Ould Slahi had taken refuge in the mosque hi part because of the intense investigation of his associates by the Canadian authorities. Mr. Elbatal said Mr. Ould Slahi knew the Koran "by heart," having learned the holy text from his grandmother in Mauritania as a child along with the complex rules for the many different forms in which the Islamic canon is recited.

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n The New York Times, February 29, 2000 Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company The New York Times * View Related Topics February 29, 2000, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 1573 words HEADLINE: Foiled Terror Plot On Tourists Linked To bin Laden Aide BYLINE: By JAMES RISEN DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 BODY: Middle Eastern and American officials say they believe that a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile, coordinated a terrorist plot that was aimed at Western and Israeli tourists in Jordan in December. Officials said the man played a critical role in directing the operation from Pakistan, and fled to Afghanistan a day or two after the Jordanian authorities foiled the plot and arrested 13 people. American and Middle Eastern investigators say they believe that the suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was also in contact with Algerians who have been charged in a separate attempt to bomb unspecified targets in the United States in December. It is not clear whether Mr. Zubaydah played an active role in that plot, these officials say. But they say the emerging evidence about Mr. Zubaydah provides an important development in their effort to establish that Mr. bin Laden is a commanding figure in terrorist plots against the West. These investigators say they believe that Mr. bin Laden and his group were trying to land two blows at once against Western interests. Those attacks, they say, would have been their first large terrorist actions since the bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, for which Mr. bin Laden has been indicted. Investigators began working on the theory that Mr. bin Laden was behind the alleged plots as soon as arrests were made in Jordan and the United States. They quickly discovered that some of those people held in Jordan had been trained in camps operated in Afghanistan by the Saudi exile. They also found that the Algerians in Canada had taken direction from a Mauritanian man related by marriage to Mr. bin Laden. But investigators said the role of Mr. Zubaydah, from the Gaza Strip, is the most significant evidence to date that Mr. bin laden was directly behind the two operations. Mr. Zubaydah is a trusted member of Mr. bin Laden's inner circle, they said.

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SECTION: Section B; Page 2; Column 5; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 978 words HEADLINE: Man Pleads Guilty to Role In Millennial Terrorism Plot BYLINE: By ALAN FEUER BODY: An Algerian man has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle explosives into the United States from Canada as part of a suspected plot to terrorize unknown American targets around the time of millennial celebrations in 1999. As part of his plea, the man, Abdel Ghani Meskini, 33, also agreed to testify against other suspects in the case, according to a court transcript. It is a development that could prove to be a major break in what has so far been a mysterious and confounding investigation. The case against Mr. Meskini began on Dec. 14, 1999, when government customs officials in Port Angeles, Wash., stopped a man who was trying to drive his car off the ferry from Vancouver, British Columbia. That man, Ahmed Ressam, broke into a dead run after a few simple questions and, when he was caught, the authorities said, they found several jars of RDX, a military explosive, in his car, along with four Casio watches fashioned as homemade detonators. They also found a slip of paper on Mr. Ressam with Mr. Meskini's home phone number. Two weeks later, after tapping the phone and placing Mr. Meskini under surveillance, the authorities took him into custody in Brooklyn, saying they had seen him discarding airplane tickets and other documents. Mr. Meskini's guilty plea on Wednesday, which was reported yesterday in The Washington Post, occurred before Judge Loretta A. Preska in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the same place where four men are now on trial, facing charges that they joined with Osama bin Laden in a global conspiracy that led to the bombings of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. Speaking in English, his second language, Mr. Meskini told the judge that he had traveled to Seattle to give "money, transportation, a communication device and other means of assistance" to a man he referred to only as Reda, "whose entry into the United States through Canada created a substantial risk of destruction of real or personal property within the United States." Investigators have said that Abu Reda is an alias used by Mr. Ressam and that Mr. Meskini was dispatched on Dec. 11, 1999, to meet him at the Best Western Inn in Seattle and serve as his translator and driver as well as to give him cash withdrawn with a stolen debit card. The man who sent Mr. Meskini on his mission, investigators say, was another Algerian named Mokhtar Haouari. In his guilty plea, Mr. Meskini confirmed that he went to Seattle on Mr. Haouari's orders and that he and Mr. Haouari made several phony passports and Social Security cards together as well as opened bank accounts under made-up names in order to gain access to credit cards and checks.

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n The New York Times, December 24, 2002 Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company The New York Times December 24, 2002, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 14; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 940 words HEADLINE: THREATS AND RESPONSES: EUROPEAN LINKS; Terror Suspect's Departure From Germany Raises Concern in Other Nations BYLINE: By DESMOND BUTLER DATELINE: BERLIN, Dec. 23 BODY: A German man under investigation for links to top figures of Al Qaeda slipped out of the country last month, withdrawing his four children from school, terminating his lease and obtaining visas for Saudi Arabia without attracting any attention from the police, according to German officials. Christian Ganczarski, 36, a Polish immigrant who until recently lived in the western German city of Mulheim, had been under investigation since the German police overheard a telephone call from Nizar Nawar, shortly before Mr. Nawar detonated a bomb on April 11 in front of the Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The blast killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists. Prosecutors overseeing the investigation say that under German law, the evidence tying Mr. Ganczarski to the bombing and his own confession of recent contact with Qaeda leaders were insufficient to keep him under constant surveillance or to prevent him from traveling. They say those limitations are the consequence of a Constitution devised to prevent the reoccurrence of the country's totalitarian past. The case has caused concern among officials in France and Tunisia involved in an investigation into the Djerba bombing and illustrates the complexities of fighting a global network like Al Qaeda. Last week, the Tunisian justice minister complained openly about Mr. Ganczarski's departure. "Investigations into the attack on Djerba have moved forward very well, and I hope that the flight from Germany of an accomplice of the suspected perpetrator of the attack will not hamper inquiries," the minister, Bechir Tekkari, told Agence France-Presse. In a recent interview a high-ranking French official, who insisted on anonymity, expressed frustration that Mr. Ganczarski had not been detained. Under French law, the official said, "he would have been." Mr. Ganczarski is a figure who German prosecutors say may have been able to provide unique knowledge of Qaeda cells. Under interrogation, he has admitted to traveling five times

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SECTION: Section A; Page 10; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 936 words HEADLINE: A NATION CHALLENGED: EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS; German Media Report Potential Ties Between Tunisian Blast and Al Qaeda BYLINE: By EDMUND L. ANDREWS with DESMOND BUTLER DATELINE: FRANKFURT, April 19 BODY: German investigators have uncovered potential links between a key suspect in last week's deadly explosion at a synagogue in Tunisia and figures in the Qaeda terrorist organization, according to German media reports. In addition, the daily newspaper Die Welt reported in its Saturday editions that German police have found evidence of an entirely separate Qaeda "cell" in Hamburg, which had been the base for several of the Sept. 11 hijackers. The reports could not be independently confirmed today. But German police have said they are convinced that the explosion in Tunisia, which killed 17 people, was a terrorist attack. They have also publicly confirmed that the driver of the truck that exploded placed a telephone call to a man in Duisburg, Germany, just hours before the explosion occurred on April 11. If the new reports are accurate ~ and German police have not denied them — they would provide additional evidence that the Qaeda network not only survived the war in Afghanistan but is still active. Numerous German news publications have reported that the driver whose truck exploded at the synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, called Duisburg that morning. He reportedly spoke to a man identified by various German first names and known to friends as Ibrahim. The German police had kept the recipient of the call under surveillance and tapped his telephone for months, because he appeared to have contacts with radical Islamic groups inside and outside Germany. Suddeutsche Zeitung, the Munich-based daily newspaper, reported today that the man known as Ibrahim was a close acquaintance of two other people who had extensive ties to Al Qaeda. One of those people was Mohambedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian who lived for several years in Duisburg and was arrested last September in Mauritania on suspicion of having a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. Mr. Slahi also spent time in Canada in the late 1990's, where he is said by investigators to have known Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian caught driving a carload of explosives into the United States from Canada as part of an alleged plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport on the millennium. The truck driver who called Duisburg before the Tunisian explosion last week also spent time in Canada, but it is not known if he knew either Mr. Slahi or Mr. Ressam there.

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Al-Qaeda's Global Terror Franchise By Pepe Escobar Asia Times October 30,2002 Karachi, Djerba, Yemen, Bali, Moscow - and now Amman, where an American diplomat has been assassinated. Al-Qaeda is back - with a vengeance. But is it al-Qaeda? Guesswork flies from the US to Western Europe to Southeast Asia and back. Al-Qaeda is a portmanteau code word to define anything from a terrorist attack to virtual threats, dormant cells, alleged conspiracies, axis of evil-related states and even deranged serial killers such as the Washington sniper. In a sense, Osama bin Laden - now "resurrected" in his ancestral tribal land in north Yemen - has already won. His strategy of fear has proved to be a tremendous success. Al-Qaeda may have changed its name to Fath-e-Islam since early September. It may have started concentrating on soft targets. It may have subcontracted tasks to indigenous groups everywhere. And although al-Qaeda is still an ideology - even a cosmology - it's not an organization or a movement any more. It's now a mutant virus, an invisible international jihad spreading its tentacles, like a real McDonald's of terrorism. Al-Qaeda has been widely blamed for the Bali disco bombing and the Chechen-orchestrated hostage-taking operation in a Moscow theater. Yet there's no proof of direct al-Qaeda involvement in either. British writer and documentarist John Pilger was one of a few who stressed that Bali should rather be blamed on Indonesian state terrorism - which ran rampant for 40 years, backed by Britain, America and Australia. "It is hardly surprising there are resentments and tensions, and support for extreme religious groups." Pilger notes correctly that "in West Papua, the army openly supports an Islamic group, Lashkar Jihad, which is linked to al-Qaeda. This is the same army which the Australian government trained for decades and publicly defended when its terrorism became too blatant." Pilger adds that Australia's "long complicity with state terrorism in Indonesia ... makes a mockery of the self-deluding declarations last week that the nation had lost its innocence in Bali'." Sources have confirmed to Asia Times Online that a group of Indonesia's generals with connections to General Prabowo - married to one of former dictator Suharto's daughters - could have been behind Bali. The general's supreme interest is to destabilize the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri. President Vladimir Putin's Soviet heavy metal response to the Chechen operation in Moscow was sold by the Kremlin as the best response against ultra-radical Islam. But this is an insult to the intelligence of informed international opinion. The Kremlin is serving the same rhetorical soup being cooked by the White House - according to which the "war against terror" justifies anything. Now Putin adds the gassing of innocent civilians. The corollary of this policy is an absolute refusal to even try to examine the explosive regional

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Investigators have already gathered ample evidence the Mohamed Atta, the hijackers' ringleader, flew to Spain last July in his second of two trips last year, possibly for a weeklong series of meetings with other al-Qaeda operatives. A suspect arrested last November, Imad Yarkas, led an alQaeda cell with links to Atta's cohorts in Hamburg, Germany, and authorities have said they have recorded phone conversations in which he allegedly spoke in code about the suicide attacks. In Washington, a law enforcement official said an FBI task force is working with law enforcement authorities in Spain to locate and capture suspected terrorists, including men with terrorist links who have travelled to the United States in recent years.

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"After 9/11, the gloves come off." -COFER BLACK, former director, CIA Counterterrorism Center And the brass knuckles came on. America's frontline agents in the war on terror have hacked into foreign banks, used secret prisons overseas, and spent over $ 20 million bankrolling friendly Muslim intelligence services. They have assassinated al Qaeda leaders, spirited prisoners to nations with brutal human-rights records, and amassed files equal to a thousand encyclopedias.

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But the war is far from over. Last week, Osama bin Laden's top deputy exhorted the faithful to strike at western embassies and businesses. The injunction, from Ayman al-Zawahiri, came on the heels of bombings in Morocco and Saudi Arabia and caused the United States to close diplomatic posts overseas and increase the homeland security warning level from yellow to orange. Al Qaeda, one FBI veteran explained, "has one more 9/11 in them." With all the headlines about the latest attacks and warnings, however, it is easy to miss the amount of damage America's terrorist hunters have inflicted on bin Laden's ragtag army. U.S. News has retraced the war on terror, starting in the very first weeks after 9/11, to examine in detail how Washington and its allies launched an unprecedented drive, led by the Central Intelligence Agency, to disrupt and destroy bin Laden's operation. Interviews were conducted with over three dozen past and current counterterrorism officials in a half-dozen countries; the magazine also reviewed thousands of pages of court records and analytical reports. The story-part detective yarn, part spy tale-is one of unsung heroes. It is a story of nameless CIA analysts who matched tortured renditions of Arabic names with cellphone numbers around the globe, of Pakistani soldiers killed while smashing down doors of al Qaeda, of Jordanian interrogators who wore down some of bin Laden's craftiest killers. Much of this has not been told before.^y/yjndfaljrt intelligence hasJejQo^ajiewer, more profound understandin^of_binLaden's secret network, intelligence^ officialsjsay^They have buiJLup dossiers qnTiisloIIowers from_ajscant few hundredjefore 9/11 to over 3.000 today. They have identified the core group's sworn membership, nowlliougjin^^^umMLQnJy^lMla^Jajalieyers. And bin Laden's personal fortune, investigatdrs"say, is all but gone. There's more. The investigators have unearthed a secret history of al Qaeda.jJiscoyering documents in bin Laden's own hand, along with/recordsTdentifying'donQjrsJa thetejxorjstjgraup. they have forced captured operatives to help target their comrades-even listening in as a terrorist made a phone call that led to the assassination of a top al Qaeda leader.

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It was another royal function on a cold February evening as Prince Charles mingled with the guests at the opening of an Oxford clinic. Among the doctors were a few celebrities, including the actress Joanna Lumley. Canapes were eaten, a few glasses of wine were drunk. 'I can't tell you all how pleased and glad I am to be here today,' Charles gushed. Charles stopped to chat with the new Saudi ambassador to Britain, the distinguished figure of Prince Turki al-Faisal. The two friends shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. But Turki is not what he seems. Behind him lies a murky tale of espionage, terrorism and torture. For, while Turki has many powerful friends among Britain's elite, he is no ordinary diplomat. Turki has now been served with legal papers by lawyers acting for relatives of the victims of 11 September.

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They accuse him of funding and supporting Osama bin Laden. The Observer can also reveal that Turki has now admitted for the first time that Saudi interrogators have tortured six British citizens arrested in Saudi Arabia and accused of carrying out a bombing campaign. The revelations throw a stark light on Turki's appointment late last year as Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to Britain. They also cast doubt on the suitability of Charles's relationship with senior Saudis. A year ago Charles had dinner with bin Laden's brother, Bakr bin Laden, and regularly hosted meetings for Turki's predecessor, Dr Ghazi Algosaibi, who was recalled after writing poems praising suicide bombers. The US lawsuit is seeking more than $1 trillion in com pensation from a list of individuals and companies alleged to have supported al- Qaeda. The claimants' head lawyer, Ron Motley, a veteran of successful anti-tobacco suits, has already

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Terrorism investigation expands around the world By USA TODAY Nearly six months after the attacks on New York City and Washington, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies have shifted their focus from the events of Sept. 11 to hunting al-Qaeda operatives and others who might be planning assaults on Western interests. Authorities around the world have uncovered a complex web of al-Qaeda cells and groups sympathetic to them. Some key terrorism suspects in the USA and abroad:

United States Zacarias Moussaoui In custody: Awaiting federal trial on terrorism charges in Alexandria, Va. Jury selection will begin in September. A French-Moroccan, he is charged in a sixcount indictment with belonging to an al-Qaeda conspiracy to kill Americans and use weapons of mass destruction — commercial jets. He could face the death penalty if convicted. He was arrested in Minnesota on immigration charges a month before the attacks after acting suspiciously at a flight school. He hasn't been linked directly to the hijackers, but authorities say he followed their game plan: receiving money from al-Qaeda operatives, taking flying lessons, joining a gym, expressing interest in crop-dusting and buying instructional flight-deck videos. Authorities say he received more than $50,000 from Yazid Sufaat and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, two operatives who also had contact with the hijackers. He allegedly met with Sufaat in Malaysia in October 2000. The indictment says Moussaoui was trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. Key questions in his case: whether he was supposed to have taken part in the attacks Sept. 11, was part of some other plot or was a low-level operative who didn't know much about the overall scheme. He had no apparent contact with hijackers but has been linked to al-Qaeda operatives who assisted them.

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Richard Reid In custody: Awaiting federal trial on terrorism charges in Boston. Trial is tentatively scheduled for November. Charged in a nine-count indictment with trying to blow up a jet with explosives hidden in his shoes Dec. 22. Reid, a British citizen, could face life in prison if convicted. He allegedly tried to light a fuse in his sneakers while aboard a Paris-to-Miami flight with nearly 200 passengers. Charges do not say Reid was acting on al-Qaeda's orders, but they call him an alQaeda-trained terrorist. A laptop computer used by al-Qaeda officials that was purchased by a reporter in Kabul, Afghanistan, detailed the travels of an al-Qaeda scout; U.S. officials say that person could have been Reid. John Walker Lindh In custody: Awaiting federal trial on terrorism charges in Alexandria, Va. Jury

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An alleged terrorist accused of helping the 11 September conspirators was invited to a party by the Iraqi ambassador to Spain under his al-Qaeda nom de guerre, according to documents seized by Spanish investigators. Yusuf Galan, who was photographed being trained at a camp run by Osama bin Laden, is now in jail, awaiting trial in Madrid. The indictment against him, drawn up by investigating judge Baltasar Garzon, claims he was 'directly involved with the preparation and carrying out of the attacks ... by the suicide pilots on 11 September'. Evidence of Galan's links with Iraqi government officials came to light only recently, as investigators pored through more than 40,000 pages of documents seized in raids at the homes of Galan and seven alleged co-conspirators. The Spanish authorities have supplied copies to lawyers in America, and this week the documents will form part of a dossier to be filed in a federal court in Washington, claiming damages of approximately $100 billion on behalf of more than 2,500 11 September victims. The lawsuit lists Saddam's government in Iraq as one of its principal defendants, claiming it provided 'material support' to the al-Qaeda terrorists. Under US law, the victims' families do not have to prove active direction or involvement in the details of the 9/11 conspiracy by Iraq, only that Saddam's regime gave al-Qaeda more general assistance in the knowledge that it was planning to attack American targets. Although some Western intelligence officials have expressed scepticism about an al-Qaeda-lraq link, in recent months George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, has made increasingly strong statements alleging such a connection. In Congressional testimony last month, he said that Iraq had cooperated with al-Qaeda for 10 years, and that it had trained alQaeda members in bombmaking and the use of chemical and

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ITALIAN police have arrested a Moroccan accused of links to a top al-Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan by the FBI last year, prosecutors in Milan said late today. Milan magistrate Guido Salvini said Mohamed Daki, 38, with an address in the northern city of Reggio Emilia, was arrested on Sunday. According to the charge sheet, Daki had contacts with Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged lieutenant of Osama bin Laden credited with planning the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Binalshibh was arrested in Pakistan on the anniversary of the attacks and brought to the United States to stand trial. Prosecutors said Daki had been living in Reggio Emilia since arriving from Hamburg, Germany, in January. He is accused of organising a "cell" comprising six other men, who were arrested on April 1, and accused of "plotting with the aim of carrying out acts of violence linked to international terrorism, including in states other than Italy". The Milan court handling the case said last week the men "are linked to a terrorist organisation whose leader, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, is an important member of the alQaeda organisation". The men have been accused of links to the Ansar al-lslam, a group based in northern Iraq which Washington alleges has connections with al-Qaeda, the organisation blamed for September 11. They have been in detention since the beginning of the month and have been formally accused on similar charges to Daki. The Milan court handling the case said the men "are linked to a terrorist organisation, whose leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is an important member of the al-Qaeda organisation". They have also been accused of organising the recruitment of "fighters" for Ansar al-lslam (Supporters of Islam), possibly for combating the invading US and British forces in Iraq. The arrest mandate said the men organised the travel of the recruits to Iraq via Syria, and also assisted by collecting money and arranging false identity papers for the volunteer fighters.

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December 20, 2002 10:23 a.m. EST PAGE ONE December 20, 2002 Friend or Foe: The Story Of a Traitor to al Qaeda Divided Allegiances in Yemen Undo The Betrayer, Who Himself Is Betrayed By ANDREW HIGGINS and ALAN CULLISON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SANAA, Yemen - Fed up after two decades of Islamist plotting, the veteran Egyptian militant decided to jilt the jihad. In early 1998, he walked into the heavily guarded offices of Yemen's intelligence agency, the Political Security Organization, with a startling proposal: He could help unravel Osama bin Laden's network. He disclosed the hiding places in Yemen of foreign terrorists, including one who would shortly become Mr. bin Laden's chief lieutenant. He described the extremists' weaponry, security and violent plans for the future. He revealed the locations of al Qaeda encampments in and around Marib, a desert region scattered with ruins of the biblical kingdom of Sheba. But instead of cracking down on the militants, members of Yemen's security service tipped them off. Mr. bin Laden's acolytes grabbed their turncoat, grilled him about his treachery and made plans to send him to Afghanistan to be killed. What should have been a triumph in a shadowy struggle against terrorism became an intelligence coup for the terrorists. Safe in Yemen, they went on to launch a string of attacks there, from the bombing of the USS Cole to an assault on a French oil tanker, the Limburg, this fall. On Nov. 3, more than four years after the warning about camps in Marib, the desert region was targeted for a lethal assault - not by the Yemenis but by the Central Intelligence Agency. Monitoring satellite-telephone chit-chat, the CIA tracked two Toyotas carrying suspected al Qaeda members across the desert. An unmanned U.S. spy plane then fired a Hellfire missile that incinerated six people, including Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a Yemeni suspected of helping organize the Cole attack. The missile strike blew a hole in a diplomatic facade, as well. After Sept. 11, President Bush gave the world a simple choice: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists." Yemen — Mr. bin Laden's ancestral homeland — and other hotbeds of Islamist sentiment such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia declared themselves "with us." Their leaders pledged unequivocal support for the struggle against al Qaeda. But within these nations' bureaucracies, not to mention their citizenries, the lines of loyalty are fuzzy. The U.S.-Yemen relationship is unusually delicate today, after the U.S. asked Spain's

Al-Qaida Cell in Spain Charged with Aiding September 11 Attacks

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Al-Qaida Cell in Spain Charged with Aiding September 11 Attacks Spanish authorities Sunday charged eight suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network with involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Investigative judge Baltasar Garzon said the men "formed part of an extremist Islamic group of a terrorist nature, integrated in the support and development structure of the al-Qaida organization's criminal activities." The suspects were charged with membership in a terrorist organization, along with document falsification, robbery, and weapons possession. Garzon accused the group of being "directly involved with the preparation and carrying out of the attacks perpetrated by the suicide pilots on September 11." Phone intercepts led to arrests The accused were among 11 people arrested Tuesday during raids in Madrid and Granada. Police seized computer equipment, counterfeit documents, and several .22-calibre rifles. Also found were videos of Islamic guerrilla activities and a large amount of money. Garzon said the charges against the suspects were based on telephone conversations intercepted by police before the September 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon.'In one such conversation, recorded on August 26, an al-Qaida activist named "Shakur" told the cell leader in Spain, "in our lessons, we have entered the field of aviation and we have cut the bird's throat." ^^~ This cell leader was identified as Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah. An Imam, or spiritual leader, of Syrian origin, Abu Dahdah is believed to be al-Qaida's top representative in Spain. His name appeared in a diary confiscated during the arrest of an alleged bin Laden agent in Hamburg. The other detainees were named as Luis Jose Galan Gonzalez, also known as Yusuf Galan, Jasem Mahbule, Bassan Dalati Satut, Osama Darra, Mohammed Neetl Acaid, Said Chedadi, and Mohammed Zahir Asade. The remaining three were released on bail, but advised that they were still under investigation. They were named as Mohammed Ghaleb Kalaje, Ahmad Raghad Mardini, and Mohammed Arabi Sbehimi. ^^ Judge Garzon said the group recruited people for terrorist training, and provided cover for Islamic militants in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. In addition, he said the group collected money, mainly through stolen credit cards and robberies, for cells based in Hamburg, Germany, where some of the hijackers lived for several years. One of the jailed men, Osama Darra, ran an electronics store in Spain, used in laundering money for alQaida. In the house of another, Bassan Dalati Satut, alias Abu Abdo, police found a diary containing a bank account number belonging to Mustapha Setmarian Nasar, who authorities said ran training camps in Afghanistan. Most of the detained men have Spanish citizenship, although all but one were originally from Muslim countries. The lone native Spaniard in the group, Luis Jose Galan Gonzalez, whose alias is Yusuf Galan, was trained at a camp run by bin Laden in Indonesia in July. At his Madrid home, police seized weapons, ammunition and forged identity documents. Galan was also said to have connections to Spain's radical pro-Basque independence party Herri Batasuna, linked to the armed separatist terrorist

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