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FOREWORD ATTACKING TERRORIST NETWORKS AT HOME AND ABROAD • Defeating Terrorist Leadership and Personnel • Denying Terrorist Haven and Sponsorship • Eradicating Sources of Terrorist Financing SECURING THE HOMELAND • Reorganizing the Federal Government • Reducing America's Vulnerability to Terrorism • Enhancing Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities STRENGTHENING AND SUSTAINING THE INTERNATIONAL FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM • Global Efforts to Fight Terrorism • Regional Efforts to Fight Terrorism • Diminishing Underlying Conditions Terrorists Exploit CONCLUSION

EXECUTIVESUMMARY ATTACKING TERRORIST NETWORKS AT HOME AND ABROAD Since September 11, 2001, the United States, with the help of its allies and partners, has dismantled the repressive Taliban, denied al-Qaida a safe haven in Afghanistan, and defeated Saddam Hussein's regime. Actions at home and abroad have produced the following results:

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"The war of God continues against them and I can see the victory coming up from the land of Palestine by the hand of Hamas." Immediately after the Israeli missile strike that killed Yassin, Rantisi and other Hamas leaders threatened to retaliate against the United States, Israel's staunchest ally. However, a few days later, Rantisi backed down from the threat, saying Hamas would be active only in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel.

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U.S. Engagement with the Taliban on Usama Bin Laden

DECAPTIONED Since the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996, the United States has consistently discussed with them peace, humanitarian assistance, drugs and human rights. However, we have made clear that Usama bin Laden (UBL) and terrorism is the preeminent issue between the U.S. and the Taliban. • These concerns over bin Ladin preceded the 1998 bombings. • For instance, Secretary Christopher wrote to the Taliban Foreign Minister in 1996 that. xvwe wish to work with you to expel all terrorists and those who support terrorism..." In our talks we have stressed that UBL has murdered Americans and continues to plan attacks against Americans and others and that we cannot ignore this threat. • f

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Have also emphasized that the international community shares this concern. In 1999 and in 2000, the UN Security Council passed resolutions demanding that UBL be expelled to a country where he can be brought to justice. Have told the Taliban that the terrorist problem is not confined to bin Laden and that the Taliban must take steps to shut down all terrorist activities.

• Have told them that the resolution of the bin Laden issue and steps to close the terrorist apparatus would enable us to discuss other issues in an improved atmosphere. •

Conversely, have stressed that if this terrorism issue is not addressed, there can be no improvement in relations.

These talks have been fruitless. The Taliban usually said that they want a solution but cannot comply with UNSCRs. Often the Taliban asked the U.S. to suggest a solution. In October 1999, the Taliban suggested several "solutions" including a UBL trial by a panel of Islamic scholars or monitoring of UBL Afghanistan by OIC or UN. Taliban consistently maintained that UBL's activities are restricted, despite all evidence to the contrary.

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U.S. repeatedly asked Taliban to expel bin Laden Declassified cable details years of negotiations From Henry Schuster CNN (CNN) —The U.S. government asked the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to expel or hand over Osama bin Laden more than two dozen times between September 1996 and summer 2001, according to a recently declassified State Department cable.

Three of those attempts were made after the Bush administration came into office in late January 2001. Despite the various efforts, "these talks have been fruitless," the cable said. The cable was written in July 2001 and was obtained recently by the National Security Archive at George Washington University through the Freedom of Information Act. The National Security Archive posted the document to its Web site Friday. Sajit Gandhi, research associate at the NSA, said there are indications that the Taliban were approached more than 30 times during the time period. The Taliban religious militia ruled much of Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until a coalition of U.S. and allied forces drove them from power in November 2001. The Taliban had given haven to al Qaeda before the attacks of September 11 2001. Remnants of the group remain active, and bin Laden is still at large. The State Department held its first meeting with a Taliban official September 18, 1996, when the political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, asked that bin Laden be made "unwelcome" in Afghanistan. According to the document, the U.S. official was told by the Afghani deputy foreign affairs adviser that "the Taliban do not support terrorism and would not provide refuge to bin Laden."

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vs 2. Pieces Of The 9/11 Puzzle DAVID E. KAPLAN and KEVIN WHITELAW U.S. News and World Report By early 2000, officials at the National Security Agency had struck a virtual gold mine of intelligence on the operations of Osama bin Laden. Eavesdropping on a busy phone line at an al Qaeda safehouse in the dust-blown Yemeni capital of Sana, they discovered what proved to be a vital communications hub for the terrorist network. The NSA-America's top-secret electronic spy agency-listened in as al Qaeda's top lieutenants passed messages between bin Laden and operatives worldwide. Analysts suspected that one caller, a man named Khalid, was part of an al Qaeda "operational cadre." But it was only after the September 11 attacks that authorities realized just how dangerous Khalid was. He turned out to be Khalid al-Mihdar, one of five hijackers who would perish in the attack on the Pentagon. And what no one knew back in early 2000 was that al-Mihdar was in the United States when he called the house in Yemen. The content of some of his conversations, in fact, was reported to the FBI at the time, but neither the FBI nor the NSA investigated much further, officials now say. The failure to discover al-Mihdar's presence in America-and perhaps stumble upon the hijacking plot-has emerged as one of the most glaring intelligence lapses preceding the 9/11 attacks. It is also now a central focus of the independent 9/11 commission, which plans to address the larger problem in the handoff of information from the NSA to the FBI in an upcoming public hearing. "This was very damaging," says Eleanor Hill, who directed Congress's earlier probe into 9/11. "The intelligence community was not sufficiently focused on the threat to the United States." Surprisingly, government agencies often did not~or could not-trace the location of all calls made to and from targeted sites, even such high-value ones as the Yemeni house. The failure to follow up on al-Mihdar's calls to Yemen was discussed in oblique and heavily redacted passages in the joint congressional inquiry released last July, which described communications involving "a suspected terrorist facility in the Middle East." U.S. News has learned that the "facility" was the Yemeni safehouse, which authorities describe as one of the most important sources of hard intelligence about al Qaeda before 9/11. The home belonged to Sameer Mohammed Ahmed alHada, an al Qaeda facilitator who was also al-Mihdar's brother-in-law. The FBI obtained al-Hada's phone number from a suspect in the twin 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. Over the next three years, sources say, NSA eavesdroppers mined intelligence that helped authorities foil a series of terrorist plots, including planned attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Paris and the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, along with art-attempted airline hijacking in Africa The home also served as a planning center Tor the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Hada was killed two years later when a hand grenade he was carrying exploded as he was being chased by Yemeni police. Waging war. The matter remains shrouded in secrecy, reflecting broader concerns by authorities over revealing details of America's most sensitive intelligence gathering techniques. How the nation's eavesdroppers work and what they listen to are rarely discussed publicly, but the two 9/11 probes have thrown rare light on the inner workings of U.S. intelligence. The failure to detect al-Mihdar's presence in America, for example, reveals another flaw in America's counter-terrorism efforts before 9/11: The intelligence community lacked a coordinated program to monitor contact by people in the United States with suspected terrorists overseas. "We were waging a war," says a counterterrorism official, "and nobody knew it, including the troops."

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Oil Painting Robert Baer's Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude offers an in-depth picture of dirty dealings. By Laura Rozen Web Exclusive: 8.15.03 Print Friendly | Email Article

Robert Baer is the kind of contact every journalist wishes he or she could trad notes with over a beer, a gifted storyteller with a wealth of war stories from hi 21 years as a CIA case officer in places such as Beirut, Sudan, northern Iraq and Central Asia. After his resignation in 1997, he wrote See No Evil, a chronicle of his career and his deep disillusionment with the agency during th Clinton years. In Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soulfoi Saudi Crude, Baer again plays to his strengths. Here Baer turns to our relationship with Saudi Arabia, offering a glimpse into the shortsightedness and dysfunction of U.S. policy that only a veteran Middle East hand like himself ~ fluent in Arabic and immersed in the study of Islamist terrorism — could provide. According to Baer, the Saudi royal family is a deeply corrupt and degenerate bunch. Sleeping with the Devil offers a litany of anecdotes that convey the almost fin de siecle depravity of the extended Saudi royal family ~ not just high-stakes gambling and whoring in Monte Carlo, France's Cote d'Azur and Morocco but "illegal ventures" that make the princes widely resented at home Family members are not above, for example, supplementing their royal allowances with bribes on construction contracts and arms deals, selling visas and bootlegged alcohol, or even "seizing commoners' property and selling it." Widespread Saudi resentment at such behavior has, Baer leaves no doubt, helped give rise to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, whose members include the 15 Saudi hijackers who took part in the September 11 attacks. But Baer's tale is not only an indictment of the Saudi royal family and its excesses. The real target of Baer's criticism is the U.S. government itself. According to Baer, successive presidential administrations have stubbornly ignored the facts about Riyadh and other oil-rich Persian Gulf allies. In the wake of 9-11, of course, the evidence that the Saudis played a significant if nc dominant role in those attacks, and in the ranks and leadership of al-Qaeda, was overwhelming. But Baer writes that the U.S. government had for years had plenty of information about the Saudi role in earlier terrorist attacks against Americans, including the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the 1995

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• In Liberia, UN peacekeepers and the transitional government face a daunting challenge to , f^(-f ^^ ,, rein in armed factions, including remnants of Charles Taylor's militias. • Sudan's chances for lasting peace are its best in decades, with more advances possible in the short term, given outside guarantees and incentives. • A fragile peace process in Burundi and struggling transitional government in Congo (Kinshasa) have the potential to end conflicts that so far have claimed a combined total of over 3 million lives. • Tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea over their disputed border is jeopardizing the peace accord brokered by US officials in 2000.

THE OTHER TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES Let me conclude my comments this morning by briefly considering some important transnational concerns that touch on the war against terrorism. We're used to thinking of that fight as a sustained worldwide effort to get the perpetrators and would-be perpetrator off the street. This is an important preoccupation, and we will never lose sight of it. But places that combine desperate social and economic circumstances with a failure of government to police its own territory can often provide nurturing environments for terrorist groups, and for insurgents and criminals. The failure of governments to control their own territory creates potential power vacuums that open opportunities for those who hate. • We count approximately 50 countries that have such "stateless zones." In half of these, terrorist groups are thriving. AI-QaMda and extremists like the Taliban, operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, are well known examples. As the war on terrorism progresses, terrorists will be driven from their safe havens to seek new hideouts where they can undertake training, planning, and staging without interference from government authorities. The prime candidates for new "no man's lands" are remote, rugged regions where central governments have no consistent reach and where socioeconomic problems are rife. Many factors play into the struggle to eradicate stateless zones and dry up the wellsprings of disaffection. • Population trends. More than half of the Middle East's population is under the age of 22. "Youth bulges," or excessive numbers of unemployed young people, are historical markers for increased risk of political violence and recruitment into radical causes. The disproportionate rise of young age cohorts will be particularly pronounced in Iraq, followed by Syria, Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia. • Infectious disease. The HIV/AIDS pandemic remains a global humanitarian crisis that also endangers social and political stability. Although Africa currently has the greatest number of HIV/AIDS cases-more than 29 million infected-the disease is spreading rapidly. Last year, I warned about rising infection rates in Russia, China, India, and the Caribbean. But the virus is also gaining a foothold in the Middle East and North Africa, where governments may be lulled into overconfidence by the protective effects of social and cultural conservatism. • Humanitarian need. Need will again outpace international pledges for assistance. SubSaharan Africa and such conflict-ravaged places like Chechnya, Tajikistan, and the Palestinian Occupied Territories will compete for aid against assistance to Iraq and Afghanistan. Only 40 percent of UN funding requirements for 2003 had been met for the five most needy countries in Africa. • Food insecurity. More than 840 million people are undernourished worldwide, a number that

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Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company The New York Times View Related Topics April 13, 1999, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 1; Foreign Desk LENGTH: 2424 words HEADLINE: U.S. Hard Put to Find Proof Bin Laden Directed Attacks BYLINE: By TIM WEINER BODY: American commandos are poised near the Afghan border, hoping to capture Osama bin Laden, the man charged with blowing up two American embassies in Africa eight months ago, senior American officials say. But they still do not know how to find him. They are depending on his protectors in Afghanistan to betray him — a slim reed of hope for one of the biggest and most complicated international criminal investigations in American history. Capturing Mr. bin Laden alive could deepen the complications. American officials say that so far, firsthand evidence that could be used in court to prove that he commanded the bombings has proven difficult to obtain. According to the public record, none of the informants involved in the case have direct knowledge of Mr. bin Laden's involvement. For now, officials say, Federal prosecutors appear to be building a case that his violent words and ideas, broadcast from an Afghan cave, incited terrorist acts thousands of miles away. In their war against Mr. bin Laden, American officials portray him as the world's most dangerous terrorist. But reporters for The New York Times and the PBS program "Frontline," working in cooperation, have found him to be less a commander of terrorists than an inspiration for them. Enemies and supporters, from members of the Saudi opposition to present and former American intelligence officials, say he may not be as globally powerful as some American officials have asserted. ButjTjsjTiessage and aims have more resonance_among Muslims around the world than has been understood here. __ "You can kill Osama bin Laden today or tomorrow; you can arrest him and put him on trial in New York or in Washington," said Ahmed Sattar, an aide to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of inspiring the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. "If this will end the problem ~ no. Tomorrow you will get somebody else." \s with senior American officials and knowledgeable observers of Mr. bin ) Laden in Pakistan, Sudan and elsewhere suggest that there is widespread support [ among ordinary people in the Muslim world for his central political argument: that

Al-Qaeda's Satellite Phone Records Revealed

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Al-Qaeda's Satellite Phone Records Revealed by Nick Fielding and Dipesh Gadhery The Sunday Times March 24, 2002 http://www.sunday-times.co.Uk/article/0.. 1 78-245683.00.html

Records of Osama bin Laden's calls from his satellite phone reveal Britain was at the heart of the terrorist's planning for his worldwide campaign of murder and destruction. Bin Laden and his most senior lieutenants made more than 260 calls from their base in Afghanistan to 27 numbers in Britain. They included suspected terrorist agents, sympathisers and companies. Some were prearranged calls to public pay phones. The records, obtained by The Sunday Times, show that the terrorist leader made more calls to Britain than any other country in the two years that he used the phone. He stopped using it two months after members of his Al-Qaeda terror network bombed two American embassies in east Africa in August 1998. He believed the Americans were tracking his movements through the phone. Two of the men contacted by Bin Laden in Britain Khaled al Fawwaz and Ibrahim Eidarous are now in prison awaiting extradition to the United States for their part in the embassy bombings, which killed 224 and injured thousands. However, another senior terrorist suspect, Mustafa Nazar, is still free. He spent up to two years in Dollis Hill, north London, recruiting for Al-Qaeda. A key figure in Bin Laden's terror training camps, he left Britain in 1998 and was last seen in Afghanistan. The telephone records have come to light following the trial of four Al-Qaeda terrorists who planned and carried out the bombing of the two American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. According to trial documents, the satellite telephone was bought in 1996 with the help of Dr Saad al Fagih, 45, a bearded surgeon who heads the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia. This fundamentalist Muslim group is dedicated to the overthrow of the Saudi Arabian government but is not part of Al-Qaeda. Al Fagih, who has been regularly used by the BBC as an expert on Bin Laden, has in the past explained that Muslim scholars said the killing of civilians, including children, was allowed by the Koran as "collateral damage" in the holy war. It was al Fagih's credit card which was used to help buy the 10,500 Compact-M satellite phone in the United States and it was shipped to his home in north London, according to American court documents. His credit card was also used to buy more than 3,000 minutes of pre-paid airtime. Last week al Fagih, who has not been arrested or charged in connection with any of these actions, said: "I am willing to speak to the authorities if they ask me about this or any other issue, but not to the press." For two years Bin Laden and his military commander, Muhammad Atef, used the phone to direct AlQaeda's operations. More than 200 calls were made to the London home and mobile phone of al Fawwaz. Calls were also made to two public phone boxes in December 1996 and May 1997. One was outside Willesden library in north London and another was only a few minutes walk from al Fawwaz's home. Other calls were made to companies for which al Fawwaz worked. Al Fawwaz, who lived in Kenya from 1993-94 before moving to London, was head of a group called the Advice and Reformation Committee, based in Queen's Park, northwest London, which has been described by the FBI as a front organisation for Bin Laden. Al Fawwaz kept a note of the satphone number in his address book under the name of Atef. But according to American court documents the phone was regularly used by Bin Laden.

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Report: 7 Bin Laden Attacks Stopped

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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - U.S. intelligence agencies have stopped accused terrorist Osama bin Laden from carrying out at leastsjeY.en bomb attacks on overseas facilities since the bombings of two U.S. embassies last AugusttJSA Today reportobx \_-/

Citing unidentified senior intelligence officials, the paper said the thwarted attacks were against the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia where more than 50 U.S. jets are kept and against embassies in Albania, Azerbaijan, Ivory Coast, Tajikistan, Uganda and Uruguay. The officials told the paper those embassies were chosen because ~ like the African embassies attacked last summer — they are in older buildings lacking modern security. Bin Laden has been indicted for the August bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people. The USA Today report said the six embassy attacks were prevented when U.S. intelligence agencies used a reconnaissance satellite to monitor bin Laden's telephone calls and tipped off local officials, who then arrested the people suspected of preparing to carry out the attacks. —

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CIA Director George Tenet told a Senate subcommittee last month that he did not have "the slightest doubt" bin Laden was planning more attacks against the United States. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press last week that the Saudi exile may have fled Afghanistan after his hosts in the Taliban-led government turned on him by cutting off his telephone and limiting his access to outsiders. Abdul Hakeem Mujahid, a Taliban diplomat assigned to the United Nations, confirmed to State Department officials Feb. 17 that bin Laden had fled the area in Afghanistan under Taliban control a few ; days earlier. Under one admittedly optimistic scenario, according to the U.S. official, bin Laden is on the run after his Taliban hosts turned on him, disrupting presumed plans to renew terrorist attacks against Americans. But the official, asking not to be identified, acknowledged that the administration has no idea of bin Laden's whereabouts and lacks firm evidence that he even has left Afghanistan. Here are links: Charles Edward Roberts - Wanted for Kidnapping a Young Afghan Muslim Tribal Girl Pakistan not involved in attack, says Afghan envoy Taleban leader says .Clinton should .be stoned to death I Am_Runmngjor.President; of the United States Attack on Afghan bases leaves 28 dead - Arabs, Pakistanis among victims

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After the March 11 bombings in Madrid that claimed 191 lives, interest in this week's antiterror operation is high in Britain. On Wednesday, The Evening Standard published photographs of two of the detainees, Omar Khayam, 22, and his brother, Shujah, 17, both of Crawley, south of London. The newspaper quoted a relative of the two saying that Omar Kayam had flown to Pakistan in January 2000 for terrorism training after he was recruited by militants from a group known as Al Muhajiroun. But the relatives who gave interviews Wednesday denied any knowledge of terrorist plans by the men, or any connection to the ammonium nitrate that the police confiscated.

32. Spanish Judge Issues Warrants For Six Bombing Suspects Associated Press Spain for the first time issued international arrest warrants Wednesday in the Madrid train bombings, seeking six suspects in a widening probe into the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history. The names and photographs of the warrants for five Moroccans and a Tunisian were distributed by the Interior Ministry. They included two brothers of Naima Oulad Akcha, the only woman charged in the case so far, a court official said. The warrants didn't specify countries of residence, a court official said, denying earlier reports that they were sent specifically to Britain, Morocco and France. Earlier a government official erroneously said that one of the warrants was for Abdelkrim Mejjati, a 36-year-old Moroccan who was convicted in absentia in the deadly bombings in Casablanca last year, which killed 33 people and 12 suicide bombers. Mr. Mejjati is wanted by the FBI in connection with possible terrorist threats against the U.S. Spanish police have 19 people in custody - 11 Moroccans or Moroccan-born Spaniards, two Indians, two Spaniards and three Syrians. The nationality of one suspect, whose arrest was announced Wednesday, wasn't released. Fourteen of the suspects have been charged with mass murder or collaborating with or belonging to a terrorist group. Interior Minister Angel Acebes on Tuesday identified the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group as the main focus of investigation in the March 11 bombings in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800 others. That extremist group is a forerunner of Salafia Jihadia, which Morocco blamed for the Casablanca bombings. At least five members of the Combatant group, including alleged leaders Nouredine Nfia and Salahedine Benyaich, trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan between 1999 and 2001, Moroccan officials said. Spanish investigators have analyzed a videotape in which a man claiming to speak on behalf of al Qaeda said the group carried out the Madrid attacks in reprisal for Spain's backing of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

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.exisNexis' Copyright 2004 The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times All Rights Reserved Los Angeles Times April 1, 2004 Thursday Home Edition SECTION: MAIN NEWS; Foreign Desk; Part A; Pg. 6 LENGTH: 859 words HEADLINE: Arrest Warrants Issued for 6 in Spain Bombing Case; The fugitives, five Moroccans and a Tunisian, have been implicated in the Madrid train attacks that killed 191 people. BYLINE: Sebastian Rotella and Cristina Mateo-Yanguas, Special to The Times DATELINE: MADRID BODY: Spanish authorities issued international arrest warrants Wednesday for six fugitives in last month's train bombings as the investigation focused on possible masterminds and recently arrested suspects believed to have longtime ties to extremism here. Judge Juan del Olmo issued the warrants for five Moroccans and a Tunisian implicated in the bombings that killed 191 people March 11, court officials said. Three of the wanted men have relatives among the 21 detained suspects, whom police describe as a mix of hard-core extremists, recently recruited criminals and members of three families. Police have developed a detailed picture of the plot through interrogations as well as fingerprints and other evidence found in a rural safe house outside Madrid where the planning and the assembly of the bombs is believed to have taken place. The people already in custody are suspected of being top plotters, several bombers and the alleged bomb maker, a Moroccan with a university degree in chemistry who trained at an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, police say. Most of the suspects are Moroccan, but arrests during the last week netted five of Syrian descent, including two longtime associates of a Syrian-dominated Al Qaeda cell dismantled here in late 2001, according to authorities and court documents. One is a relative of a businessman charged last year with filming a 1997 "reconnaissance" video of the World Trade Center linked by police to the Sept. 11 attacks, said a high-ranking Spanish investigator who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation. Nonetheless, the question of who conceived and ordered the sophisticated train bombings still bedevils investigators.

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DUSHANBE, June 27 (AFP) - Tajikistan somberly marked the five-year anniversary Thursday of the end of a brutal civil war that killed 150,000 people amid warnings that the nation's unrelenting poverty threatens stability throughout Central Asia. "By signing the peace agreement five years ago, we saved our land from ruin, our people from splintering and secured the integrity of our land," said Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov. "But we are still far from guaranteeing stable supplies of food and electricity to the people, or from lowering the level of poverty," he said. The former Soviet republic, neighboring Afghanistan, erupted into civil war between pro-Communist government forces and the Islamic opposition almost immediately after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991. Government troops withstood the resistance in battles that destroyed much of southern and eastern Tajikistan, Rakhmonov signing a peace treaty with opposition leader Said Abdullo Nuri in Moscow on June 27, 1997. The agreement helped incorporate some 5,000 Islamic militants into Tajikistan's standing army and police forces, as the country struggled to cope with the gangs of heavily armed men who had overrun the once stable nation. The government also enlisted some 11,000 Russian troops to guard its border with civil war wracked Afghanistan, which has used Tajikistan as its main opium transit line to Europe. But Tajikistan still remains the former Soviet Union's poorest republic with limited natural resource and chronic food shortages sparked in part by droughts. Analysts estimate that the civil war caused some seven billion dollars in damage to the economy, and to this day 80 percent of the country's 6.2 million people live in poverty. Worse, much of the country's intelligentsia fled the fighting and there are few economic expert left who can help advise Rakhmonov on ways to conquer Tajikistan's social ills, analysts say.

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This has included stream-lining judicial procedures to speed up the extradition of Eta suspects as well as allowing Spanish anti-terrorist experts quick access to information. Last year French police arrested more than 50 people linked to Eta, mainly in south-west and central France. France also has some 127 Eta suspects in French prisons of whom 108 are of Spanish nationality. The French judiciary is examining 76 extradition dossiers. The most significant arrest came in December last year with the capture of two top members of the military side of the organisation - Ibon Fernandez Iradi, known as "Susper", and Gorka Palacios Alday. They were picked up separately in the French Basque country, which has remained their main source of logistical support since the days of the Franco dictatorship. Eta has also forged links in the past with Breton nationalists and used them in 1999 to help steal eight tonnes of explosives from a quarry in Brittany. But this led French police to clamp down on Breton nationalists, forcing Eta to count less on this link. Only this week five French Basques stood trial for their implication in logistical support for the theft, which was subsequently used for terrorist bombings in Spain. French security authorities believe there are some 120 Eta activists still at large in France. Most are thought to be providing logistical support for a small number of "military" members. Police have often preferred to keep suspects under observation, moving to arrest when convinced some act of terrorism is about to be committed. It is for instance still unclear whether they were aware of January's meeting in Perpignan between a leading member of Eta and Josep Llouis Carod-Rovira, the head of Esquerra Republicana, the Catalan independence party who had just been appointed number two in the Catalan regional government. News of this meeting was leaked to the Spanish press causing an uproar in Spain. Subsequent to the meeting, Eta also announced it had agreed a "truce" for the north-eastern Spanish region of Catalonia.

15. US search for Qaeda turns to Algeria BRYAN BENDER Boston Globe US special forces are hunting for Islamic militants linked to Al Qaeda along Algeria's southern border with Mali in a little-known military operation aimed at destroying a key North African recruiting hub for Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, according to US and Algerian officials. Small teams of elite US soldiers have been working with local security forces in recent months in the Sahara Desert in an effort to capture or kill members of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, a radical Islamic organization that has pledged its allegiance to Al Qaeda and is suspected in terrorist plots in Europe and the United States, said the officials, who asked not to be identified.

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tne same country, in dealing witn tne Soviets, this meant the pursuit of arms control and democratic regime change in the Soviet bloc at the same time. A similarly complex strategy for dealing with Russia—and for that matter, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and Uzbekistan—is needed today. Michael McFaul is a Hoover Fellow and associate professor of political science at Stanford University. His'latest book, with James Goldgeier, is "Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War."

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11 That's Left Is Violence Does it matter whether the carnage in Madrid last ade. Basques run their own region (through a mainek was the act of the Basque terrorist organiza- stream, non-violent nationalist party), collect their , ETA, or of al Qaeda? Of course there are impor- own taxes, have their own police, speak their own nt differences. ETA is a local organization, al Qaeda language and broadcast their own television and rai global one. The former is secular, the latter reli- dio programs. As a result support for ETA is down to , But they have something in common that is re- 5 percent at most Support for its political sympathiz[ about the nature of terrorism. Both groups ers, the political party Batasuna, hovers under 10 perpolitical agendas, but as their political causes cent. In fact support for Basque nationalism itself has ; lost steam, they are increasingly defined almost waned considerably. In the last election, 60 percent of | exclusively by a macabre culture of violence. Basques voted for parties that did not espouse "The purpose of terrorism," Vladimir Lenin once Basque nationalism. , "is to terrorize." Like much of what he said, this It is in this context that ETA announced in 2000 | is wrong. Terrorism has traditionally been usedtoad-the "reactivation of armed struggle" after a 14-month f vance political goals. That's why a rule of terrorists cease-fire. In the next two years it launched 87 bombI used to be: "We want a few people dead and a lot of ings and assassinations, in which 38 people were ipeople watching." Terrorists sought attention but killed. But because of effective police work by Spain [ didn't want people to lose sympathy for their cause. and France, ETA's attacks dropped to 20 in 2002, Yet with many terrorist groups—like ETA, like al with five deaths, and so far this year there have been [ Qaeda—violence has become an end in itself. They 17 hits, in which three people were killed. [ want a lot of people dead, period. In the past ETA hit only Spanish politicians, poSome in Spain have argued that if an Islamic group licemen and other symbols of Spanish rule. Now it Lproves to be the culprit Spaniards will blame Prime targets civilians indiscriminately. In its region, it mur|Minister Jose Maria Aznar. It was his support for ders Basques who dare speak out against secession, i and the war in Iraq that invited the wrath of firebombs bookstores and intimidates the press, crei fundamentalists. But other recent targets of Is- ating a pervasive atmosphere of fear. nic militants have been Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, "Violence has become ETA's main rationale," a foraudi Arabia and Indonesia, not one of which sup- mer separatist who renounced ETA told the Financial 1 the war or sent troops into Iraq in the after- Times in 2002. "The exercise of violence creates antiir. Al Qaeda's declaration of jihad had, as its first de- bodies. ETA's new recruits can digest barbaric acts nd, the withdrawal of American troops from Saudi that would have been unthinkable under Franco: the a. Osama bin Laden does not seem to have no- torturing of town councillors, the killing of children, , but the troops are gone—yet the jihad contin- of traffic wardens and local policemen. ETA now is i. The reasons come and go, the violence endures. led by its most extreme elements, those who are pre|The Middle East scholar Giles Keppel makes an pared to go furthest in all this senseless killing." r between communist groups and Islamic funETA's goal—the creation of a single Basque nantalists. In the 1940s and 1950s, communist tion—is not as fantastical as is al Qaeda's dream of a 3 were popular and advanced their cause politi- restored caliphate. But given that part of the Basque y. By the 1960s, after revelations about Joseph lands it wants to unify are in France, and none of the ' n's brutality, few believing communists were left French Basques have any interest in this plan, it is ute. Facing irrelevance, the hardcore radicals terly unrealistic. The goals are now charades, excuses ! movement turned to violence, hoping to gain for bloodletting. i and adherents by daring acts of bloodshed. Spanish authorities have estimated that the nums the proliferation of terror by groups such as the ber of ETA's hard-core activists is well under 100. I Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Simi- Most estimates of serious al Qaeda operatives are in Islamic fundamentalism tried for decades to the hundreds. Technology means that small numbers | popular support andtopplethe regimes of the can still do great harm^-as last week's tragedy amply ~: East When this tactic failed, radicals like bin illustrates. But that should not obscure the reality i turned to terrorism. that this violence is a sign of weakness. JTA follows this pattern. Having been founded to That's why Friedrich Engels, a shrewder observer t the brutal suppression of the Basques under than Vladimir Lenin, wrote to Karl Marx in 1870, i Franco's reign, it has foundered as Spain "Terror is for the most part useless cruelties commit: democratic and provided the Basques with ted by frightened people to reassure themselves." * levels of autonomy. Almost every demand ; nationalists has been met over the last [email protected]

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Fifteen attacks took place durin . the seven-days from May 12 to May 1 in Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Morocc and Israel, killing a total of 164 pe sons, 90 of them in the two Chechny bombings alone. Nine of the I attacks-—five in Israel and four of di fiveinMorocco—were aimed at Jew ish targets. Intelligence service warned of threats of new strikes i Kenya and the United States. American and European security officials continued to distinguish between the bombings in Saud

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(Canadian preferred to go to Afghanistan Stewart Bell National Post Wednesday, November 26, 2003 http://www.nationalpost.comyhome/story.html?id=84105AAE-86FD-480E-B482-B6146D58C78C TORONTO - A Toronto man released by the U.S. military after being detained at Guantanamo Bay has no desire to return to Canada and has not approached any Canadian embassies for kelp, government officials said yesterday. Canadian officials said there was no truth to claims madg by the family of Abdulrahman Khadr that the 20-year-old was desperate to get back to Canaday&ut had been turned away by embassy staff in Pakistan and Turkey...But Reynald Doiron, a Foreign Affairs spokesman, said Mr. Khadr could have returned to Canada upon his release from Guantanamo Bay if he had wanted to. Instead, Mr. Khadr chose to go to Afghanistan, Mr. Doiron said, adding the Canadian embassies in Islamabad and Ankara confirmed they had not heard from Mr. Khadr. Intelligence officials also claim to possess confidential evidence indicating that Mr. Khadr does not wan/to return to Canada... Mr. Khadr was born in Bahrain but is a Canadian citizen. He is the/Son of Egyptian-Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, considered by Canada's intelligence service to be close to Osama bin Laden. He was raised in the Toronto area...According to a Canadian intelligence report released under the Access to Information Act, Mr. Khadr "is suspected of having undergone training at al-Qaeda facilities." He was arrested by the Northern Alliance rebels in Kabul in November, 2001 ...He was sent to Guantanamo Bay in January, joining his younger brother Omar. Aside from the allegations of al-Qaeda training, there is no evidence Mr. Khadr was directly involved in terrorisrn/but Omar allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, and his father is a wanted al-Qaeda figure.^ The Khadr family, particularly its patriarch, hasbeen,a longstanding concern for Canadian intelligence investigators. Ahmed Khadr moved to Canada from/Egypt in the 1970s and later joined a Muslim charity helping Afghan refugees. He went to Pakistan as regional director of the Ottawa-based Human Concern International and opened refugee camps inat CSIS now says were used to aid Islamic fighters waging holy war in Afghanistan. In 1995, he wag arrested in Pakistan on accusations he financed the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad; but he was released without charges after Jean Chretien, the Prime Minister, raised the matte/with Benazir Bhutto, then the Pakistani leader. The United Nations froze his assets in 2001 because of his alleged ties to bin Laden, and after the attacks of Sept. 11, Canada ordered banks to seize any accounts linked to him. The RCMP has opened an investigation into his activities but no charges have been announced... EUROPE: Islamist gave insight into workings of al-Qaeda By Hugh Williamson in Berlin Published: November 26 2003 17:31 The Financial Times (UK) http://news.ft.com/s01/servlet/ContentServer? pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=l 069493518148&p=l 012571727102 An Islamist militant who helped plan terrorist attacks on Jewish sites in Germany was given a relatively mild prison sentence on Wednesday because he had provided evidence on the inner workings of alQaeda. Shadi Abdallah, a 27-year-old Palestinian of Jordanian origin was sentenced to four years in prison by a court in Dusseldorf, western Germany, less than half the maximum term often years. Prosecutors had sought a five-year term. He was arrested as part of a round-up of mostly Palestinian activists in Germany in April 2002, and later admitted that Berlin's Jewish museum and a Jewish bar in Dusseldorf had been targets, although no attacks were mounted. He is one of the first Islamic militants in trials in Germany or elsewhere to give evidence against former colleagues. Mr Abdallah would have witness protection in prison and for the rest of his life, and would receive a new identity, court officials

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"The total number of suspects exceeds 25. Some of them are in the international (US) Mo list." In an exclusive interview with the East African Standard, the minister would not release th names or say where they are being detained. The suspectSj most of them foreigners, and their alleged loca[coljaborators were _roundec by Kenyan detectives and internationaTsecurity agehci Murungaru said. The suspects were being interrogated Jn~eonnectioo.wJtli.the August 1998 embassy blast, the Paradise hotel bombing last year. More than 200 Kenyans died and thousands more were wounded in the 1 998 incident. A building adjacent to the embassy collapsed, killing most of its occupants. More people v the neighbouring Co-operative Bank House, the US embassy building itself and other adje buildings. Charred bodies were found in commuter vehicles, private cars, telephone booths and on t streets. paying some of the suspect$Jiad_bgen arrested in Somalia, Murungaru added that the Gc was working closely with influentiaTcomiaantes in tnat couniry because there was no gov< place. "This kind of an operation is usually carried with care and precision." He said Kenya had made major gains in its war against terrorism, but added that it was irr win the war without the support of the international community.

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Saudis Say Militant Cell Raided, Attack Thwarted / Reuters November 28, 2003 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-saudi28nov28,l,2737929.story RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Security forces found a pickup truck packed with more than a ton of explosives when they raided a militant cell primed to launch a "terrorist operation" in Riyadh, Saudi officials said Thursday. State television showed footage of the truck filled with the explosives, rocketpropelled grenades and gas cylinders, apparently to magnify the force of any explosion. It was seized after a clash Tuesday in which two wanted militants were killed. Officials said the raid by security forces thwarted an imminent attack during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr... Kenya Terror Suspects' Charges Reduced Friday November 28, 2003 12:01 PM By TOM MALITI Associated Press http://www.guardian.co.Uk/worldlatest/story/0.1280.-3440115.00.html NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan authorities dropped murder charges against three terror suspects Friday and instead charged them with conspiracy to commit a felony for their alleged roles in three alQaida attacks and a foiled plot to destroy the U.S. Embassy. Prosecutor John Gacivih said the charges against the three suspects - Said Saggar Ahmed, Salmin Mohammed Khamis and Kubwa Mohammed Seif - were reduced because the case against them for murder was not strong enough. They are charged in four cases: the bombing of a hotel on the Kenyan coast last Nov. 28, which killed 15 people, including three Israeli tourists; a nearly simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner; an alleged plot to destroy the new U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in June; and the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, which killed 219 people, including 12 Americans. All three pleaded innocent to the new charges on Friday after being taken from the High Court to a magistrate's court. The foiled June plot to attack the U.S. Embassy with a car bomb and small aircraft was first revealed in an Associated Press story last month. At least one of the suspects, Khamis, reportedly admitted taking part in the plot to destroy the new embassy shortly after he was arrested in June. The evidence against the other men was not immediately clear... The men were among nine originally charged in the hotel bombing. Murder charges were also dropped against two other suspects - Faiz Abdalla Sharrif and Mohammed Ali Hassan. Gacivih had insisted there was enough evidence to convict all nine Kenyan suspects for murder, and the pretrial statements detail a wealth of circumstantial evidence linking six of the suspects to the deadly bombing... ASIA/PACIFIC: Terror threat or just joking By CHARLES MIRANDA November 28, 2003 The Daily Telegraph (Australia) http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story .jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=553432 A SUPERMARKET shelf packer says he faces jail after a raid on his home by counter terrorism police found a rifle and material allegedly prejudicial to national security. Zeky "Zak" Mallah was at his Condell Park home cleaning his rifle moments before the raid by Australian Federal Police agents and members of the NSW Counter Terrorism Coordination Command. The authorities spent more than three hours searching the small bedsit home and a car and interviewing the 20-year-old man. Mr Mallah, now unemployed, was fined $1400 for possession of the .22 calibre weapon last month but says he has been told he will now face the District Court because authorities believe he is a security risk. The Australianborn Muslim has been linked by ASIO to the Lakemba-based extremist Islamic Youth Movement. He

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'if< and Sudan. Background Osama bin Laden, a rich Saudi dissident, helped build and lead a militant Islamic network, known as al-Qaeda. Bin Laden and his network had a history of specifically targeting and threatening US and other Western interests, over resentment for the support of Israel and pro-West regimes such as that in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden helped bring the Taliban to power in Afghanistan, and the Taliban, in turn, allowed him to use Afghan territory for training and building his network. His network also maintained a presence in other predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, such as Sudan. Crisis On 7 August 1998, powerful bomb explosions occurred, almost simultaneously, near the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salarn, Tanzania. This triggered a crisis for the United States. It also triggered a crisis for Afghanistan, which was blamed for harboring Osama bin Laden, who was held responsible for orchestrating the attacks. Over 200 people, mostly Kenyan nationals, were killed in the bombings; over 5000 were injured. Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, based in Afghanistan, was blamed for being responsible for the attacks. US President Bill Clinton was joined by world leaders in condemning the attacks on the two embassies. The US government demanded that Osama bin Laden be handing over to them by the Afghan Taliban regime. On 19 August, Taliban chief Mullah Mohamed Omar said that the Taliban would protect bin Laden at all costs and would not hand him over to the US government. Following this, on 20 August, the US launched air strikes against targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. This triggered a crisis for Sudan. The two attacks focused on an alleged training base for terrorists about 100 miles south of Kabul, Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory capable of producing chemical weapons in Khartoum, Sudan. The Taliban claimed that about 15 people were killed in the air strikes; seven people were reportedly killed in the Khartoum strike.

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2. AI-Qaida terrorists to gas U.S. subways? PAUL SPERRY World Net Daily AI-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily. "AI-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland," says the internal warning. "Terrorists have designed a crude chemical dispersal device fabricated from commonly available materials, which is designed to asphyxiate its victims." Marked "For Official Use Only," the five-page memo issued Friday says the device produces cyanogen chloride gas and hydrogen cyanide gas, and can be placed near air intakes or ventilation systems in crowded open spaces or enclosed spaces. "These gases are most effective when released in confined spaces such as subways, buildings or other crowded indoor facilities," adds the Homeland Security memo, which was distributed to federal agencies in anticipation of possible al-Qaida attacks around the end of the Muslim holiday Ramadan, which happens to coincide with Thanksgiving and the start of the regular holiday season. Citing "recent information" from al-Qaida sources, the directive also warns of possible carbombings in America, as first reported yesterday by WorldNetDaily, and advises security officials to take code-red protective measures to guard government buildings and gas and other chemical plants. "AI-Qaida continues to plan attacks against U.S. targets," the memo asserts. Despite the high-threat measures, the administration has decided to keep the public terror-threat alert at yellow, or elevated. Phone calls to Homeland Security were not returned. Experts in chemical weapons say al-Qaida is known to have sought a weapon to pump cyanide gas into ventilation systems.

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4. Al Qaeda Seen Shifting to Terror Consultant' Role Reuters Emerging details of last week's Istanbul suicide bombings support the idea that al Qaeda is becoming more of a terror "consultancy" and less of a direct actor, security analysts say. Most see al Qaeda's hand behind the car bombs that blew up two synagogues, the British consulate and the offices of British-based banking group HSBC, even if Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has cautioned that the link is not yet proven. The car bombers were all Turks from the small southeast town of Bingol, known as a fundamentalist center, and Erdogan said they had global connections. Local people and media reports said three had attended al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Experts said this fits a pattern of attacks since Sept. 11 in which al Qaeda's core operatives have increasingly played a background role: supplying know-how, and possibly finance, but leaving it to local actors to carry out individual missions. NEW GENERATION "Al Qaeda has moved to a 'second generation' of structures and operational capability," said David Claridge, managing director of Janusian Security Risk Management in London. "There clearly is some remaining (organizational) core, but that core is no longer involved in operations at the sharp end." Analysts offer competing metaphors to describe the modus operand! of al Qaeda since late 2001, when U.S. forces drove it from its Afghan bases and captured or killed key leaders as President Bush launched his war on terror. Some see it as an international terror "university" or consultancy; others liken it to a franchising operation, endorsing approved operations around the world with the cachet of its feared global "brand." "The old, damaged military organization of al Qaeda has undergone a transformation to terror sponsor. That means Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri (his deputy) and others are more active today in the sense of franchising terrorism," said Berndt Georg Thamm, a German writer on security issues. This meant local groups could tap into Qaeda's expertise to make contacts with like-minded networks and "order up" logistical support, financial help and advice on how to prepare and transport explosives. "The re-organized al Qaeda consists of a very loose network of about 30 violent Islamist groups which are spread over the whole Muslim world," Thamm said. "The network today is more virulent, essentially harder to grasp hold of and a lot harder to combat than a quasi-military terror group that is based in a single place." Some experts believe the obsession of Western media and public opinion with al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden obscures the fact they have inspired a much wider global Islamist cause, dedicated to the waging of jihad (holy war). BIN LADEN AS SYMBOL

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"The inadequacy of codes to ensure safety of persons in high-rise buildings became glaringly apparent on 9-11," said Regenhard, a New Yorker whose son Christian was among the 343 firefighters killed. Regenhard also noted that new construction at the World Trade Center site, like the twin towers, could be exempt from city building codes because its owner is the bistate Port Authority. Authority officials have said they intend to make sure the new buildings meet or exceed building and fire codes.

3. Experts See Major Shift in Al Qaeda's Strategy SEBASTIAN ROTELLA and RICHARD C. PADDOCK LA Times A spate of suicide bombings in several countries illustrates that Al Qaeda has survived by mutating into a more decentralized network relying on local allies to launch more frequent attacks on varied targets, experts say. In bombings from Turkey to Morocco, experts say, evidence suggests that Al Qaeda provided support through training, financing or ideological inspiration to local extremists. Through an evolving and loose alliance of semiautonomous terrorist cells, the network has been able to export its violence and "brand name" with only limited involvement in the attacks themselves. "Al Qaeda as an ideology is now stronger than Al Qaeda as an organization," said Mustafa Alani of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London. "What we are witnessing now is a major shift in Al Qaeda's strategy. I believe it is successful. Now they are not on the defensive. They are on the offensive." A U.S.-led assault on Al Qaeda has left many of the network's leaders dead, in jail or on the run. Still, counter-terrorism officials have linked Al Qaeda or its followers to a drumbeat of attacks in Russia, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and the Philippines, dating back to spring. Intent on maximizing the propaganda impact of its actions, the network has shifted from a singleminded focus on American interests to a broader mix including Jewish and Muslim targets. Al Qaeda allegedly gave the direct order for some of the attacks, investigators say, including one in Indonesia and the May bombing of a residential compound in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital. But in others, its local affiliates appeared to have operated more independently. The May suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, are seen as a model of the network's emerging strategy. U.S. and Iraqi authorities say several suicide car bombings — at an Italian military police base last week and at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross and three Baghdad police stations in late October — were the work of foreign Islamic extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda. There is growing debate about who is responsible for attacks in Iraq. An array of insurgents, including forces loyal to former President Saddam Hussein, seek to end the U.S.-led occupation. Insurgents have hit a variety of targets — from the United Nations headquarters to the Jordanian Embassy. U.S. authorities say about 2,000 Islamic fighters from as far away as Sudan, Algeria and Afghanistan are playing a more prominent role in the insurgency and probably are teaming up with Hussein loyalists.

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Analysts See Terrorism Paradox: A WmkerAl (JaetfaDespite Attacks By OOUGLAS JEHL and DON VAN NATTA Jr. 'WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — The recent surge in terrorist strikes on "soft targets" like consulates, banks ait'd synagogues in places like Turkey and Saudi, Arabia is worrying, but paradoxically reflects progress by the United States and Europe in disrupting Al Qaeda, especially its leadership structure, American and European intelligence officials said Friday. '"We continue to disrupt Al Qaeda's activities and capture more of their leaders, but the attacks are escalating," a senior counterterrorism official in Europe said. "This is a very bad sign. There,are fewer leaders but more follower!." The officials said they regard Al Qaeda as less capable than before of striking at American embassies, military targets and landmarks that were the hallmarks of \ts campaign before the Sept, 11 attacks. -'But the terrorist threat has evolved, they said, into a much broader, more diffuse phenomenon than before, with a new'strategy of attacks by loosely affiliated groups against highly vulnerable targets. i The shift to softer targets does not make Al Qaeda and its followers any less dangerous, th£ officials cauDouglas JeHI reported for this article from Washington and Don Van Natta Jr. from London.

tioned. Thejt said there is deep concerji here and in Europe that the United Statesiand its allies are facing more — not fewer — terrorist foes than before. Tr(e killing and capturing of Al Qaeda leaders is failing, they said, to keep pace with the number of angry young Muslim men and women willing to participate in suicide attacks. , "It's inevitable*that when you step on the anthill, th^fe are going to be plenty of ants commg out the side," a senior American olficial said. In a classified wlrning to law enforcement agenciei late Thursday, the United States reiterated its concern about Al Qaaia's "continued desire to plot or pwi terrorist attacks with an emphasis on U.S. interests abroad," federall|fficials said. The State Departifcit issued a new global terror warning Friday, saying that it saw "infeasing indications" that Al Qaeda fclanning to strike American interests abroad. It also said that it could not rule out another Qaeda attack within the United States, one "mor^ devastating" than the Sept. 11 attacks. , Intelligence and counterterrdftem officials in Europe said Friday ithat several recent attacks, in Istanbul and Jakarta, were engineered by groups affiliated with Al Qaeda, not by Al Qaeda Itself. Several officials said this 'suggests that Al Qa|da might no longer have the capacity to organize attacks and has insteaqbecome an inspiration to new and exist-

r,are all trying to ride the wave and jkrying to raise new recruits through Jihis motivation. And it's working." '">• In a private memorandum to assoic|ates last month, in which he Warned of a "long, hard slog" ahead liinl the war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld "raised similar concerns. "Are we capturing, killing or deterring and disjjsuading more terrorists every day than the madrasas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training Intelligence ofncic Via deploying against us?" I.Islamic Great Eastern Raiderssee fewer leader^ Front, also known as IBDA-C, is the Turkish terrorist organization that more followers, in claimed responsibility for Thursday's attacks against the British escalating attacl Consulate and HSBC bank in Istanbul. The gfoup, founded in the mid70's, is a viqlent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to Despite that cause for op the Europ^ui Union and the West. the intelligence officials saii Several .senior counterterrorism are troubled by evidence suggi officials in Europe, however, said that more young militant that they are uncertain that the becoming terrorists than ever group has strong ties to Al Qaeda. fore. The men are joining g: One intelligence chief said that Al inspired by the occupation of Qaeda dolpnot usually time its at* and the exhortations to fight by tacks to *-obincide with political ma bin Laden, who is seen as a events, s$t$e suicide bombers on to many disaffected Muslims. Thursday*seemed to do,in striking "These people have found a British targets during President motivation with the,aggression of Bush's stale visit to Bptain. United States, against the brethrei But a senior Jfcuntetferrorism offian Arab country," One official si cial took exception to that assess"If you follow what is being said ment, sayir^g that the coordinated the Web sites and by otjier gro' nature of the suicide Bombings, ocwith similar goals to Al fjaeda, ties icurring within five minutes and a

ing groups with similar gd|13 and ideology. "Al Qaeda, as suj&, is ti trying to survive rigftt now, senior intelligence official b a e d Europe. "Al Qaeda Anore brain dead. I don't jpfnk thi extremely efficient a|,plannii coordinating new attacks."

few miles of each other in Istanbul on Thursday, was the hallmark of an Qaeda terrorist operation. Senior counterterrorism officials in Europe and the Middle East have grown increasingly concerned that smaller, harder-to-detect groups with loose ties to Al Qaeda, or even independent of it, have struck soft targets all over Europe. The trend was first seen in the early months of 2002, with attacks by local groups with loose Al Qaeda affiliations in Pakistarf and Tunisia. The authorities alsoj broke up attacks planned against United States military and diplomatic targets in Bosnia, Italy and Morocco. *al officials have insisted that much more concerned with Kist groups in North Africa tern Europe than with the hit) of Al Qaeda. The groups are4ctivcly recruiting young men, whfdwer^ not necessarily trained in Qapda camps in Afghanistan, the officials said. >"A1 Qaeda is not my main headache," a senior official said. "The spontaneous g'roups that are sprouting up fiom the northern African community based in Europe, and going down the path of jihad, ;are what I'm most worried about. They are inspired by bin Laden, but this is not Al Qaeda. They ar« not there yet — they are not necessarily even ready to launch attotcfcs — but these groups are raising the next generation of terrorists."

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Terrorism Inc. ^Al Qaeda Franchises Brand'of"Violence to Groups Across World > TOT expert, said that the growth in " i among terrorist 'groups was partly "a matter of the groups maturing" and partly beLeaders of the al Qaeda terrorist cause "we were able to hammer al network have franchised their or- Qaeda, which pushed the locus of ganization's brand of synchro- activity elsewhere." ^nized, devastating violence to One of bin Laden's major contri- homegrown terrorist groups butions to the spread of terrorism, > across the world, posing a formida- Pillar said, was "putting the anti|; ble new challenge to counterterror- American perspective at the fore,'ism forces, according to intelli- front. It has been so successful that , gence analysts and experts in the it has thoroughly affected even United States, Europe and the these groups that are more region^ Arab world. ally focused Anti-Americanism The recent attacks in Turkey, sells, particularly in the Middle . " Arabia, Chechnya and Iraq East" show that the smaller organizaAnother CIA official said, how. tions, most of whose leaders were ever, that "making an enemy of the ? trained in al Qaeda camps in Af- United States is not a wise career »ghanistan, have fanned out, im- move," and that the United States I bued with radical ideology and the had prevented some groups from means to create or revitalize local executing terrorist attacks through terrorist groups. They also are ex- intimidation. panding the horizons of groups Most terrorism experts, includthat had focused on regional is- ing U.S. and European intelligence ^sues. analysts, said they also were seeing ^ With most of its senior leader- new similarities in the groups' "" ship killed or captured and its fi- communication techniques and the . nancial structure under increasing use of explosives. 5, scrutiny,X)sama bin Laden's netFor example, officials said, al ;, work, riow run largely by midlevel Qaeda members have taught indioperates, relies increasingly on viduals from other groups how to „ these groups to carry out the jihad, use the Internet to send messages i or holy war, against the United and how to encrypt those commu-, States and its aJBes. Al Qaeda has nications to avoid detection. Bomb '"turned to inspiring and instigating and chemical-making techniques 'such attacks. have been passed around. Investi!*; One senior U.S. official said al gators have found the same kind of v Qaeda's children were "growing up fuse being used on different contif and moving out into the world, loy- nents. al to their parents but no longer re"People noticed a flow of ideas," liant on them." said one government terrorism exi,. Intelligence officials and ana- pert. "One group will pioneer a cer" lysts said the evolution posed new tain kind of fuse and transfer it -1- challenges to efforts to combat ter- around." ror, because rather than facing a The financial structure of terror. few defined, recognized targets, ism also has shifted, officials said. countertenor forces had to con- •"There is no pool of money now front dozens of small groups that that everyone can draw on," said a "* were much more difficult to trace senior U.S. official. "There is no and attack. And, they said, knock- longer a fairly knowable group of ing out me" small group does hot large donors or entities. Now, have j^e same crippling effect as groups in Indonesia raise, money down a major leader of a there. Groups in Malaysia raise ; organization. money there. There are many "The threat has moved beyond more targets, and muchjurdpr to . al Qaeda," said Rohan Gunaratna, find." 4.~ . terrorism expert at the SingaMany of the local groups, unable Institute of Defense to draw on the web of organizaStrategic Studies, "While al tions and donors that have supi the instigator of recent ported al, Qaeda, rely on petty ^ very few have actually crime, drug trafficking and extoftion to pay the bub, intelligence of» been carried out by al Qaeda." ficials said. Because the groups are hitting softer targets in attacks that require less sophistication to ia—appear, to be the wonKof carry out, money is not a major obQaeda, few offierTCcent strike^*" stade, the officials Midt f By DOUGLAS FABAH '* AND PSTEK FINN . Washington Post Staff Writers

to al Qaeda. For example, he said, Jemaah 1slamiah seeks to create a panIslamic state in Asia, an agenda that has little to do with driving U.S. forces out of Saudi Arabia or other goals of bin Laden's. "They Kke to get advice and equipment from al Qaeda but still have their own political agenda," Pillsbury argued. The evolution of terror methods has prompted a debate within the intelligence community over the best tactics to pursue, knowledgeable officials said. One option would be to focus on destroying al Qaeda in an effort to wither the franchises. The other would be to devote almost equal attention to destroying the smaller, regional groups, a strategy Pillsbury said would be more politically sensitive and would require broader intelligence. "If they can make an instrument of local groups, it will make up for the losses al Qaeda has suffered," said Margret Johannsen, a political scientist who studies terrorism at Hamburg University. They won't need international financing, they won't need a base as hi Afghanistan, f Al Qaeda becomes] an idea, a banne^ and that is very dangerous." Finn reported from Berlin* Staff writers Dana Priest and Dan Eggen and research editor Margot Williams contributed to this report.

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Page 7 of9 pub. He was so proud of a new three-piece suite he bought for his council house that he invited friends in to sit on it. His only hint of political commitment was two trips to anti-war marches in London. When he left last month, he told friends he was flying to Dubai because he was tired of racist neighbours dumping rubbish through his letter-box. "We'll meet again," he tearfully told his tae kwon do coach, Andy Hill, who had signed his passport application and recommended him for the British Olympic Squad. But Abdelrahman was also well trained. He studied computers and was praised as a martial arts don. He ran a tae kwon do club in the annex to his local mosque, called Goodwill, packing sermons into his punches. The mosque grandees saw Abdelrahman as a star attraction, handy for keeping local youths off drugs and the streets. They said he was following in the tradition of "Prince" Naseem Hamed, the boxing champion and local hero who built the mosque. Should the police have been more suspicious? Some draw comparisons to the Finsbury Park mosque of Abu Hamza, an Egyptian veteran of the Afghan jihad, which housed a martial clubs in the basement until the security forces raided the premises. And Sheffield has a record of jihadi activity. Abdelrahman arrived shortly after another asylum-seeker and Afghan jihad veteran in Sheffield, Lamine Maroni, was caught plotting to blow up a Christmas market in Strasbourg. Only after Abdelrahman had flown did the security forces search his house, arrest four of his students on terrorism charges and interrogate colleagues. Before that, friends say, the authorities had approved his asylum application and issued travel papers. Worrying stuff. Yet, in comparison to earlier jihads, the British deployment to Iraq has been a bit of a let-down...The growing zeal of the British security forces and waning enthusiasm from British Muslims could be to blame. But jihadis say there is a more important factor: the supply of bombers exceeds demand, and British bombers are too expensive. "For the cost of equipping and transporting a British fighter into Iraq—about $2,000—we can shift 20 guerrillas into Iraq from neighbouring Arab states and Chechnya," says a retired jihadi field officer. Arabs, he says, are also less likely to have visa problems. Yemenis, like Wail, need no visa to enter Syria, although, according to the retired jihadi, at least one Arab embassy is doing its best to accommodate by issuing passports to other nationals willing to thwart America's war in Iraq. MIDDLE

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SHOW: FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME (18:20) November 20, 2003 Thursday Transcript # 112003cb.254 Analysis with Brit Hume, Mansoor Ijaz HUME: One of the continuing mysteries of the war on terror is the whereabouts of Usama bin Laden. One person with extensive contacts in his — in that part of the world, including sources within intelligence agencies in various nations is Fox News foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz, who joins us tonight from London with information that may provide some answers. Mansoor, welcome. What have you found? MANSOOR IJAZ, FOX NEWS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, Brit, tonight I can report from my intelligence sources, I consider unimpeachable intelligence sources, that we have eyewitness accounts that both Usama bin Laden, in a modified, disguised form, as well as Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two in al Qaeda, are, in fact, in Iran. They were sighted there. Bin Laden was sighted there in July of this year. You will remember that when President Pervez Musharraf came to Washington on his state visit, he said without any hesitation that he had sent his own army into the northern tribal areas to

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The official said that about one-quarter of the victims were children. Many of the compound's adult residents were out shopping late at night during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, and many go out after dark for an evening feast and shopping. A Saudi official said the attack may have resulted from "poor reconnaissance," as the bombers could have thought Muhaya housed more Americans and other Westerners. Saudi media reported extensive damage to homes in Muhaya, with windows shattered for blocks around the compound. Local television aired pictures of fires raging in parts of the compound. "A huge explosion blew out the windows. I saw a lot of people injured and I believe there were a lot of people dead," Bassem Hirani, a resident of Muhaya, told al-Arabiya, an Arabic-language television network based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Hiranj/said only a small percentage of the roughly 200 houses in Muhaya were occupied by/Westerners. /' /

The bombing occurred just hours after the British Embassy in neighboring Bahrain warned its citizens of possible terrorist attacks against Western targets. /We judge that there is a high threat from terrorism against Western, including British, targets, vye are particularly concerned about potential threats to places where Westerners might gather," the embassy said in a statement posted on its Web site. / /' "You should review your security arrangements carefully. You should remain vigilant, particularly in public places," the statement added. / Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf that iVfinked to Saudi Arabia by a causeway, has long served as the headquarters for the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Britain did not close its diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia, but urged its citizens there to be vigilant and "to assess that the threat from terrorism is particularly serious at this time and that terrorists may be in the final phases of planning attacks in the kingdom."

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Answering Osama bin Laden's call for holy war in Iraq, hundreds of followers from at least eight nations have entered the country and are playing a major role in attacking Western targets and Iraqi civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. Operatives of the Al Qaeda terrorist network and affiliated extremist groups are collaborating with Saddam Hussein loyalists, officials say, forming an array of shadowy alliances that are emerging as one of the biggest challenges to U.S.-led efforts to bring stability to the war-torn country. Some officials believe that Iraq is replacing Afghanistan as the global center of Islamic jihad and becoming the prime locale for extremist Muslim fighters who are eager to confront Americans on Arab soil. As many as 2,000 Muslim fighters from as far as Sudan, Algeria and Afghanistan are operating in Iraq, officials say. Ansar al Islam, an Iraqi group that was previously active in northern Iraq, also has made a comeback, officials say. The Bush administration says Ansar has ties to Al Qaeda. Although many of the foreign militants likely operate in small cells independent of any central command, others appear to have hooked up with Hussein loyalists who provide money, materiel and logistical support. In exchange, the foreigners provide suicide bombers and experience in

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By MARC LAC&9 BBTSSHSSSHS NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 5 — The terrorists who attacked an Israeli resort and an airliner along the Kenyan coast last November posed as lobstermen while they smuggled missiles and other weapons from Somalia aboard a wooden boat, according to a United Nations report. The report, a detailed study of the arms flow into Somalia, was delivered to the United Nations Sanctions Committee this week, but has not yet been made public. It provides the most comprehensive look to date at the attacks, linked to Al Qaeda, that killed 12 Kenyans, 3 Israelis and at least 2 suicide bombers at a hotel full of Israeli tourists in Mombasa, KenTbe New York Times ya. An attack against an airliner carrying Israelis home failed when A Mombasa hotel filled with Israelis Was attacked last November. the missiles missed their target. The study describes how the terrorists, prepared for more than a port concluded that the missiles, the year for the Nov. 28,2002, attacks. In launchers and probably the explotheir pose as fishermen, they conused all entered Somalia in ducted surveillance for months along sives violation of an arms embargo imthe coastline, becoming familiar figures who raised no suspicions when posed by the Security Council in 1992. they later turned to weapons smug- Somalia, which has a long, largely unpatrolled coastline, has been withgling. The SA-7B missiles used in the out a central government since 1991. "Due to violations of the arms Mombasa attack came either from Yemen, a major source of smuggled embargo, transnational terrorists arms in Somalia, or Eritrea, which have been able to obtain not only had made an arms shipment to one small arms but also man-portable of the major Somali warlords in 1998, air defense systems, light antitank weapons and explosives," the report according to the study. The experts who compiled the re- said. "The panel has determined that

it remains relatively easy to obtain surface-to-air missiles and import them to Somalia" According to the report, the Mombasa terrorists smuggled the missiles and the launchers by boat from Somalia to Kenya in August 2002, several months before the attack. The missiles had been manufactured in the Soviet Union in 1978 and sold to Yemen in 1994 The launchers originated in Bulgaria in 1993 and were sold to Yemen that year. Four separate groups took part in the Mombasa attack, the experts found. One cell remained in Mogadishu, Somalia, another attacked the hotel while a third went to the Mombasa airport. A fourth group went to Lamu, an island off the Kenyan coast, to prepare a getaway boat. , On Nov. 29, the day after the attacks, those who survived regrouped in Lamu and left two days later for Somalia by dhow, the traditional wooden boats in abundance along the coast The attackers remained in Mogadishu for several months, living on cash allowances provided by an uniddentified Sudanese financier, the report said. The report said the terrorists included Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, a native of Comoros whom American investigators believe was behind the bombings of the American embasin N a t r o W v T a n z a n t . that

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Taufik Rifki, seized in the Philippines, is said to be "a gold mine " Philippines, under the rubric of training exercises. United States officials have extensive inteUigen showing that Jemaah Islamiyah has a major training base on the southeiji Philippine island of Mindanao, a preoMfitaantly Muslim area in this overwhelmingly Catholic country. , "We don't have a clear picture yet of the J.I. order of battte," an Ameri* can official said. "But with every interrogation, we learn there's more of them than we thought." In a speech atan Asia-Pacific conference in H*waii on Thursday, Wong Kan jjelng, Singapore's security minister, said Jemaah Islamiyah had been disrupted, but by no means eliminated. Singapore intelligence has concluded that the group was "likely to,plan more suicide bomb attacks along the lines of Bali and the recent Hotel Marriott bombing in Jakarta," Mr. Wong said. , Some new information came from the Interrogation in Manila of Taufik Rifki, Jemaah Islamiyah's finance and logistics officer in the Philippines, officials said. Mr. Rifki was

seized last month in Mindanao, in "'tampi what has been publicly described as A'slan a Philippine police operation. Pri- side? vately, officials say the United States tion,' had a considerable rote. His ques- finam ment tioning continued this week. "He's been a gold mine," a West- of So< Mi ern official said. Mr. Rifki, born in Central Java in the v August 1974, attended Islamic miya schools there before being dis- of m latched to the Philippines by Je- cials ah in 1998. He has giv- dece en nis hiterrbgalors details about r Tl Jemaah Islamiyah's structure and agei hierarchy in the Philippines, as well have as the graduates of the Mindanao camps, where courses ranged from how to operate in a foreign country to advanced bomb-making. The C.I.A. is now poring over his accounting records and cellphone text messages. "I need chemicals and a detonator," reads one message he sent in August. Other othlsjnessages stored in the telephone were more person"I love you. I miss you," Most of those coming to the Philippines tor training are Indonesians in their late ||'s or early 30's, according to a rostefepl graduates of camps. Using information from Mr. Rifki, authorities in Indonesia this month narrowly missed capturing Azhari Husin, a 46-year-old Malaysian An American official described Mr. Azhari as more dangerous than Mr. Isamuddin because he has the same religious zeal but better bomb-making skills. Mr. Azhari is suspected of having a role in the attack in Bali in October 2Q02 that killed more than 200 people, and more recently on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Australian and Indonesian officials have said. Mr. Rifki's capture appears to have disrupted a planned operation, a Western official said. But he was caMul not to say it had prevented it. ;"It may have only been postponed a month or two," he said. Although many members of Jemaah Islamiyah trained in Qaeda

WAR ON T E R R O R I S M There is no question that the international community has been engaged in a fierce war with a shadow enemy since September 2001. Nations around the world recognize the responsibility not only to protect their own citizens from the threat of terrorism, but to protect the citizens of other countries as well. Every government has had to take a stand in the fight against evil. Often, the truth is hard to determine because terrorists hide behind so many flags. As part of a public debate in the United States, Saudi Arabia has come under much scrutiny. While our leaders have clearly stated our position and denounced terrorism at every turn, we recognize that we will ultimately be judged not by our words, but by our deeds. Since September 2001, Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 600 individuals with suspected ties to terrorism. Over the course of these arrests, Saudi security officers also seized large quantities of high explosives, automatic rifles and rocket launchers, tons of bomb-making materials and devices, false identity cards and documents, and large amounts of cash. Many security officers have been killed or injured in recent counter-terror activities. Many of these arrests have been highlighted in the world press, including: «Three clerics, Ali Fahd AI-Khudair, Ahmed Hamoud Mufreh AI-Khaledi and Nasir Ahmed AI-Fuhaid, were arrested after calling for support of the terrorists who carried out the Riyadh attacks. • Saudi police killed two suspected terrorists and arrested six other suspected Al-Qaeda militants after a Shootout in the holy city of Makkah on Monday, November 3,2003. Officers also seized a large cache of weapons they believe were stockpiled for attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. • On October 5,2003 security forces arrested three suspects during a raid in the desert to the east of Riyadh. On October 8,2003 security forces raided a farm in the northern Muleda area of Qasim Province and were able to arrest a suspect. Three other suspects fled the scene. • Security forces killed one terrorist suspect and arrested two others in an apartment in the city of Jizan on September 23,2002. The suspects were armed with machine guns and pistols and a large quantity of ammunition. • Saudi security forces, July 28, killed six terrorist suspects and injured one more in a gunfight at a farm in Qasim Province, 220 miles north of the capital, Riyadh. Two Saudi security officers were killed and eight suffered minor injuries. Four people who harbored the suspects were arrested. • Three men were arrested at a checkpoint in Al-Ka'akia district of Makkah on July 25 for

possessing printed material that included a "religious edict" in support of terrorist acts against Western targets. • The Ministry of Interior announced on July 21 that Saudi authorities had defused terrorist operations which were about to be carried out against vital installations and arrested 16 members of a number of terrorist cells after searching their hideouts in farms and houses in Riyadh Province, Qasim Province and the Eastern Province. • Turki Nasser Mishaal Aldandany, another top Al-Qaeda operative and mastermind of the May 12 bombings, was killed on July 3,2003 along with three other suspects in a gun battle with security forces that had them surrounded. • Ali Abdulrahman Said Alfagsi AI-Ghamdi, a.k.a. Abu Bakr AI-Azdi, who surrendered to Saudi authorities. Al-Ghamdi, considered one of the top Al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia, is suspected of being one of the masterminds of the May 12 bombings in Riyadh. • Yousif Salih Fahad AI-Ayeeri, a.k.a. Swift Sword, a major Al-Qaeda operational planner and fundraiser, was killed on May 31 while fleeing from a security patrol. . _, As the War on Teff<j[i»HMiges on, Saudi Arabia remains committed to rooting out and bringing to justice those who perpetrate such heinous acts.

"/ vow to my fellow citizens, and to the friends who reside among us, that the State will be vigilant about their security and well-being. Our nation is capable, by the Grace of God Almighty and the unity of its citizens, to confront and destroy the threat posed by a deviant few and those who endorse or support them. With the help of God Almighty, we shall prevail." Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. May 13, 2003

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A few hours after the blasts in Riyadh, a chain of commentaries mushroomed around the world. These op-eds ran before the med broadcast the names of the victims. By the next morning, the offi "version" of the attack (in Washington, D.C., and abroad) was to it as a Muslim-on-Muslim attack, blaming the Islamist al-Qaida 1 murdering Muslims in their spiritual motherland Arabia, and dur holiest month of the year, Ramadan. A U.S. State Department official quickly spread the word. "This not against America and the West only, " he said, "it is also agair Islam." He concluded that al-Qaida'syiV/ad was a "war against civilization." This version of the Saturday, November 10, terroris is convenient for the U.S., its allies and the general campaign ag* terrorism. It could be turned into an immense rallying banner aro world. If al-Qaida starts massacring fellow Muslims, then it wou generate an internal Islamic war and lift the mantra of "Crusade" Washington's efforts. Diplomatic analysts on both sides of the Al hoped this would be a pragmatic shift in the War on Terror. In fa wasn't. And here is why. The characterization of the Riyadh's attacks took off without acci data. Both the BBC and CNN ignored the victims: their names, ti socio-economic realities and the history of the Jihadists in this re First the statistics: According to Diaspora-based Lebanese source among the injured from the attacks about 90 victims were Lebam Lebanese nationals were burned to death, including two children, Raya Mezher. A newly married woman, Nina Joubran, was also massacred. A pregnant woman, Houry Haytaya, and her husband Ibrahim, were also killed. Another family, the Haidars, were mui as well. The fact is certified: The massacre of the Muhayya comf

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Series of Bombs Rocks Downtown Istanbul At Least 27 Killed, More Than 450 Injured By Molly Moore and Fred Barbash Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, November 20, 2003; 1:19 PM

ISTANBUL, Nov. 20--Two powerful explosions, five minutes apart, ripped through Istanbul Thursday, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 450. The targets included the British consulate and a British bank. Among the dead was Britain's consul-general, Roger Short, according to Britain's foreign office. He was one of 14 killed at the consulate, BBC News reported. Neighborhoods near the bank and consulate — separated by about five miles ~ were devastated, with whole blocks reduced to rubble and ashes. Britain is the chief U.S. ally in the war in Iraq. The blasts came as President Bush was preparing to meet in London with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. At a news conference called initially to summarize their talks, the two men stood side-by-side in anger. "The nature of the terrorist enemy is evident once again," Bush said. "They hope to intimidate. They hope to demoralize They're not going to succeed." Blair called the Istanbul terrorists "callous, brutal, murderers of the innocent... . There should be no holding back, no compromise, no hesitation in confronting this menace."

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Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said vans packed with explosives caused the two blasts. In televised remarks, Aksu said, "These were probably suicide attacks." He added that they closely resembled twin suicide bomb attacks on two synagogues on Saturday in Istanbul.

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SEVENTEEN people, including five children, were killed in a midnight suicide bombing that ripped through a residential compound west of Riyadh, the Saudi interior ministry said. The dead included seven Lebanese, four Egyptians, one Saudi and one Sudanese, said a ministry official quoted by state-run Saudi TV and the Saudi Press Agency.

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Indonesian terrorist leader linked with bin Laden November 20, 2003 The man thought to be the new military chief of Jemaah Islamiah is among a handful of Indonesians in direct contact with alQaeda, officials in Jakarta say, adding that he is considered the most lethal terrorist in Asia and is plotting fresh attacks in the region. Known as Zulkarnaen, the highest-ranking leader of the South-East Asian terrorist group is believed to head an elite squad that helped carry out the suicide bombing at Jakarta's Marriott Hotel that killed 12 people. Officials also say that Zulkarnaen helped to prepare the bombs that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, in Bali. They said Zulkarnaen held a meeting last March on the tiny island of Sebatik with two other senior militants to plot attacks against Western hotels and banks in Indonesia. "He's considered to be the most dangerous guy that's out there," said Ken Conboy, who runs Risk Management Advisory, a security consultancy in Jakarta. Zulkarnaen, real name Aris Sumarsono, is called Baud by fellow militants and is thought to be hiding in Indonesia. A protege of Abdullah Sungkar, the founder of JI, Zulkarnaen became operations chief for the organisation several weeks after the arrest in Thailand in August of his alleged predecessor, Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, Indonesian officials said. He is now among al-Qaeda's pointmen in South-East Asia and is one of the few people in Indonesia who have direct contact with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, an intelligence adviser said. The International Crisis Group think tank recently issued a report also listing Zulkarnaen as having direct contact with alQaeda's leadership. Officials said Zulkarnaen now leads a squad of militants called Laskar Khos, or special force, whose members were recruited from among 300 Indonesians who trained in Afghanistan and the Philippines. Thought to be about 40 years old, Zulkarnaen is described as a small man of few words, slightly built and thin. Indonesia's national police chief, Da'I Bachtiar, said last week that handwritten notes found in a rented room used by another top Jemaah Islamiah fugitive, Azahari bin Husin, a Malaysian, revealed plans for a bombing in February. Associated Press This story was found at:

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By Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - A radical Muslim cleric named by Britain as the inspiration for the lead September 11 hijacker has boycotted the first day of his appeal before a tribunal against his detention without trial. Abu Qatada, 43, Britain's highest-profile terror suspect, has been accused of funding and inspiring militants worldwide from a base in London. He was arrested in October 2002 after disappearing in the weeks after the September 11 attacks. "(Qatada) is a spiritual adviser to terrorist groups and Islamic extremists in the UK and overseas," government lawyer Wyn Williams told the hearing, much of which was held behind closed doors on national security grounds. "(He) has also provided financial support to terrorists." In papers issued at the hearing, the government said Qatada was directly linked to top al Qaeda figures and inspired attacks in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Chechnya as well as the September 11 strikes on the United States. It said videos of Qatada's sermons were found in the Hamburg flat of Mohamed Atta, who U.S. officials say led the al Qaeda cell which flew the first plane into the World Trade Centre. Qatada's lawyers said he had no faith in the appeals process. "He feels certain that the result of this appeal is a foregone conclusion," his lawyer Ben Emmerson told the tribunal. "He entirely denies any involvement in terrorism."

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Pol Col Peerapong said the four had plotted since October of last year to blow up the Bangkok embassies of Singapore, Australia, the United States, Britain and Israel. He told the Criminal Court the four men assembled at a mosque in Narathiwat province. Police established they had links to the regional terrorist group of Jemaah Islamiyah, closely aligned with the al-Qaeda network. They were identified in June through information from a Singaporean man, Arifin bin AN, an alleged Jl member who was arrested earlier in Thailand. Mr Arifin was handed over to Singapore authorities right after his arrest. Pol Col Peerapong said Arifin had worked with the four suspects. Police obtained mobile phones, two SIM cards, a map of the Bangkok metropolis and a notebook containing various details of the bombing plot. The five embassies on the map were marked with dots. The court scheduled the next hearing for November 28.

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Al-Qa'ida Fighters On Attacks Against Americans - Part II AI-Qa'ida's website [1] posted a video featuring the "last will and testament" of several of the May 12, 2003 Riyadh suicide bombers. According to the site, the wills were recorded two weeks before the attack, on April 29, 2003. Transcripts of the wills were also posted. The video is divided into six parts. The first part [2] includes excerpts from past speeches by Osama bin Laden, songs of Jihad and incitement, and narration by Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif [3] : "It is incumbent upon all those capable of attacking the U.S. forces and their allies situated in the countries neighboring Iraq, from whose bases they go out to attack Iraq - to do so! These forces came in order to fight Islam and the Muslims, and did not come to seek peace. The call to sign agreements with them is like a call to sign agreements with the Jews in Palestine. Likewise, these agreements, which include establishing bases for attacking Iraq, are one of the deeds contradicting Islam, and the [Muslim] nation is not bound by them. The treacherous rulers cannot stop obligatory Jihad. Anyone who calls [for rebellion] against Allah must not be obeyed." The second part of the video [4] includes an audio recording of the bombing itself. On the recording, the suicide bombers can be head praying, and then, en route, crying "Allah Akbar!" and "Allah, expel the polytheists from the Arabian Peninsula!" This section ends with the sound of gunshots. The third [5] and fourth [6] parts of the video include the wills, and the fifth [7] and sixth [8] include the bombers' messages to various recipients. The following are excerpts from the bombers messages: The Squad Commander: The Jihad Warriors and The Shahids Marched On the Path They Have Cushioned With Body Parts, Irrigated With Blood, And Paved With Skulls' Squad Commander Muhammad bin Shazzaf Al-Shahri, also known as Abu Tareq AI-Asswad, said in his video: "Brothers in Islam, Jihad is one of the commandments of Islam and a solid pillar of this religion... Jihad, which has earned the label of 'the peak of Islam,' is the sign of the glory and grace of Islam and of the Muslims, and no Muslim doubts that Jihad for the sake of Allah is one of the greatest commandments of our religion, a commandment that has preserved the existence, the glory, and the honor of the [Muslim] nation. Similarly, it is no secret to any intelligent Muslims that one of the reasons for the defeat of the nation and its loss today is the disappearance of the banner of Jihad for the sake of Allah... "The governments and regimes ruling the Muslim countries today are nothing more than examples of clear and overt collaboration with the enemies of the religion of Allah, in order to remove the religious law of Allah from the Muslims. These governments based their regimes and their laws on dissociation from all the values and principles of religious law - except for one regime, the regime of the Al-Sa'ud tribe, which continues to mislead the people and claim that it loves the

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intelligence agencies have extensive reporting on his activities before and after the September 11 hijacking. That they would include only this brief overview suggests the 16-page memo, extensive as it is, just skims the surface of the reporting on Iraq-al Qaeda connections. Other intelligence reports indicate that Shakir whisked not one but two September 11 hijackers-Khalid al Midhar and Nawaq al HamzMhrough the passport and customs process upon their arrival in Kuala Lumpur on January 5, 2000. Shakir then traveled with the hijackers to the Kuala Lumpur Hotel where they met with Ramzi bin al Shibh, one of the masterminds of the September 11 plot. The meeting lasted three days. Shakir returned to work on January 9 and January 10, and never again. Shakir got his airport job through a contact at the Iraqi Embassy. (Iraq routinely used its embassies as staging grounds for its intelligence operations; in some cases, more than half of the alleged "diplomats" were intelligence operatives.) The Iraqi embassy, not his employer, controlled Shakir's schedule. He was detained in Qatar on September 17, 2001. Authorities found in his possession contact information for terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the September 11 hijackings. The CIA had previous reporting that Shakir had received a phone call from the safe house where the 1993 World Trade Center attacks had been plotted. The Qataris released Shakir shortly after his arrest. On October 21, 2001, he flew to Amman, Jordan, where he was to change planes to a flight to Baghdad. He didn't make that flight. Shakir was detained in Jordan for three months, where the CIA interrogated him. His interrogators concluded that Shakir had received extensive training in counter-interrogation techniques. Not long after he was detained, according to an official familiar with the intelligence, the Iraqi regime began to "pressure" Jordanian intelligence to release him. At the same time, Amnesty International complained that Shakir was being held without charge. The Jordanians released him on January 28, 2002, at which point he is believed to have fled back to Iraq. Was Shakir an Iraqi agent? Does he provide a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11? We don't know. We may someday find out. But there can no longer be any serious argument about whether Saddam Hussein's Iraq worked with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to plot against Americans.

13. Al Qaeda Affiliate Training Indonesians On Philippine Island ALAN SIPRESS and ELLEN NAKASHIMA Washington Post A regional terrorist network linked to al Qaeda has continued to train its militants in the southern Philippines, aided by local Muslim separatists, police and intelligence sources said. The militants, all Indonesians, are training at a camp established three years ago and now operating under the protection of rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, according to intelligence sources and a summary of the interrogation of Taufiq Rifqi, an Indonesian militant who was captured here last month. Rifqi's testimony startled Philippine officials, who assumed they had deprived al Qaeda's Southeast Asian affiliate, Jemaah Islamiah, of its primary training ground three years ago when government soldiers overran its base. It also raises the stakes for peace talks aimed at ending the 31-year insurgency on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Diplomatic and security sources said a peace deal could close Mindanao as a vital center for the training and transit of foreign terrorists - what a Western official in Manila called "a kind of Afghanistan east."

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U.S. officials cited Somalia as a possible refuge for terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks and placed its largest company, al-Barakaat Group of Companies, and a Somali Islamic group, al-lttihad al-lslami, on a list of groups believed to have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. The United States also has frozen millions of dollars in al-Barakaat assets. About 1,800 American troops have set up base in neighboring Djibouti as part of the war on terrorism. American and coalition aircraft and vessels have conducted surveillance of Kenya and Somalia. Somali experts and an earlier U.N. report played down the terror threat, arguing that Somalia could be used as a transit point but not likely as a terrorist base. "This of course will probably rekindle interest," Alex Vines, an Africa expert at the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs, said of the report. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said during a meeting with President Bush last month that "it is important for the U.S. to increase its involvement in this search

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Page 6 of 13 Hamdi, an American-born Saudi who was apparently captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan, has been held without access to a lawyer in military brigs, first in Virginia and now in South Carolina, since April 2002. The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled in January that he was not entitled to a lawyer and had no right to challenge the basis for his continued detention. The justices have also been asked to hear a Freedom of Information Act case challenging the Bush administration's refusal to release information, including their names, about the hundreds of people, nearly all of them Muslim immigrants, who were arrested in the weeks following the terrorist attacks. Overturning a ruling by a federal district judge, the appeals court here ruled in June that the information, even concerning those found to have no connection to terrorism, was exempt from disclosure. Unlike the small category of cases the Supreme Court is jurisdictionally obliged to consider — the campaign finance case now awaiting decision, which Congress instructed the court to hear, is one example — these appeals all fall within the completely discretionary part of the court's docket. If the court decides not to hear them, no explanation is likely to be forthcoming, only the word "denied" on the weekly list of orders that dispose of new appeals. The votes of four justices are required for the court to agree to hear a case... The question, then, is whether the justices will nonetheless see these cases as simply important enough to command the Supreme Court's attention despite the absence of the traditional factors that govern discretionary review. The appeal filed by Shearman & Sterling, an international law firm with offices here, on behalf of Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad al Odah and 11 other Kuwaitis held at Guantanamo invokes the court's robust sense of institutional pride and concern for the separation of powers, a particular interest of the conservative majority...The appeal filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a liberal public interest law firm in New York, on behalf of Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks, the British and Australian citizens held at Guantanamo, makes a case for the significance of the issue, all other considerations aside... FBI official: Al Qaeda degraded, but strong Saturday, November 1, 2003 Posted: 10:06 AM EST (1506 GMT) http://www,cnn.com/2003/US/l 0/31/fbi.alqaeda/index.html WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One of the FBI's top counterterrorism officials, in an exclusive television interview with CNN, said al Qaeda remains strong and intent on striking in the United States. Larry Mefford, the FBI's executive assistant director for counterterrorism and counterintelligence, said the bureau is initiating some new programs to better confront the terrorism threat. Al Qaeda is still considered the number one threat by the U.S. government, said Mefford, who is preparing to retire, but he said there is no information about any specific pending attack... PAULA ZAHNNOW20:00 October 31, 2003 Friday CNN Transcript # 1031 OOCN.V99 KELLI ARENA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In his final interview before retiring, the FBI's counter terrorism chief spoke exclusively to CNN about Al Qaeda and the threat it poses. LARRY MEFFORD, EXEC. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FBI: We've seen in our view about 21 terrorist attacks worldwide since September 11 of 2001 connected to Al Qaeda operations. So they've been busy overseas for a number of different reasons. They have not attacked us in the homeland, but we're very concerned about that. ARENA: Al Qaeda, its activities, and how it's adapting have all but consumed Larry Mefford. He says the organization has changed the way it raises money, the way it communicates, even the way it recruits.

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UPI Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in talks over repatriating suspected Saudi al-Qaida operatives held in Iran, reports said Monday Saudi official sources were quoted in the daily newspaper Okaz as saying Riyadh was seeking the repatriation of wanted al-Qaida suspects who were rounded up in Iran after fleeing Afghanistan. The sources said Riyadh was not given any Saudi suspects recently, and the last time Iran turned over Saudi prisoners was last year. "Saudi Arabia received al-Qaida suspects in several batches from Iran last year, including men, women and children. But no prisoners were turned over since then," the sources said. They said most of those repatriated were released after being interrogated about their motives for their presence in Afghanistan.

9. The Supreme Court and Sept. 11 New York Times Editorial In the two years since Sept. 11, the Bush administration and the federal courts have rewritten important areas of the law, scaling back the right to counsel, the ability of prisoners to challenge their confinement and other civil liberties. Through it all, the Supreme Court has been silent, largely because of the time it takes for cases to work their way up. The court will soon have a chance, however, to consider several cases posing the question of how much, if any, our constitutional rights have changed as a result of Sept. 11. It has a duty to step in and stand up for civil liberties. The administration has taken some fairly radical steps in its war on terrorism. It insists that anyone it labels an "enemy combatant," including American citizens, can be held indefinitely and denied access to lawyers and family members. And it maintains that the hundreds of detainees in Guantanamo can be held indefinitely, with no chance to contest their captivity. On these two points, and on equally troubling ones raised in other cases, federal appeals courts have sided with the administration. The Supreme Court is still assembling its docket for this term and will have an opportunity to consider the administration's enemy-combatant doctrine in the case of Yasser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen of Saudi descent apparently captured on the battlefield in the Afghan war. Mr. Hamdi has been held in a military brig since April of last year, without access to a lawyer. An appeals court held that he had no right to challenge his incarceration. It is a disturbing ruling, with sweeping implications for the power of the government to detain citizens. The Supreme Court should review it. The justices will also be able to review, if they choose to, an appeals court ruling that the Guantanamo detainees, who were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Afghan war, have no right to contest their confinement. The detainees are being backed not only by human rights groups, but also by some retired military officers who argue that the administration's policies could hurt American troops captured in future conflicts. The court should take the case and direct the administration to provide the detainees — many of whom, there is reason to believe, were picked up in error — with a forum for challenging their captivity.

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DUBAI, Nov 2, (AFP) -- The pan-Arab daily AlHayat published Sunday the names of 147 suspected members of the al-Qaeda terror network and the Taliban Islamic military who were extradited by Iran in October. The Saudi-owned newspaper did not say how it obtained the list about which Iran informed the United Nations, but the article was datelined New York. The names included 29 Saudis, 12 Jordanians, 13 Yemenis, six Moroccans, six Tunisians, one Syrian, seven Somalis, 35 Pakistanis and 24 others whose nationalities could not be established. The Pakistanis and the unknown group were handed over to Islamabad, the paper said. Three Afghans and three Lebanese were also identified. "Iran says it handed them over to their own countries through diplomatic channels," Al-Hayat said.

An Austrian who was returned to Vienna is also on the list, Al-Hayat said, without providing an accurate breakdown of the nationalities of all 147 names.

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2nd Issue of Voice of Jihad' Al-Qa'ida Online Magazine: Strategy to Avoid Clashes with Saudi Security Forces, Convert the World's Countries to Islam The second issue of "The Voice of Jihad," the new biweekly on-line magazine identified with Al-Qa'ida has been posted. J^The following are excerpts from the latest issue, which includes a sequel to an interview with Abd AI-'Aziz bin 'Issa bin Abd AI-Mohsen, 2 also known as Abu Hajjer, who isone of the highranking Al-Qa'ida members on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted list. Lead Editorial: Combat Jews and Americans, Not Saudi Security Forces The second issue of "The Voice of Jihad" opened with an editorial by Suleiman AlDosari: "...Our war with the enemies of Allah continues everywhere... We will not let the Americans occupy the land of the two holy places [i.e. the Arabian Peninsula] [and feel] secure and safe, and we will not cease our Jihad until we liberate every inch of Muslim land. "We draw the attention of the Mujahideen to the strategy adopted by the Sheikh of the Mujahideen, Abu Abdallah Osama bin Laden, and Sheikh Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and agreed to by many of the great Mujahideen, regarding combat against the enemy: Our number one enemy is the Jews and the Christians, and we must free ourselves to invest all our efforts until we annihilate them - and we are able do this if Allah allows us to do it - because they are the main obstacle to establishing the Islamic state. "...We must take note of the ploy used by the tyrants [i.e. Arab rulers] in many countries. They attempted to stop the Jihad project in these countries by shifting the confrontation with the occupying enemy (the masters) to confrontation with his guards (slaves) [meaning Muslims], because the tyrants see the killing of one American or Westerner as more serious than the killing of a hundred of their country's soldiers; the blood of an American, in their view, is worth the blood of all Muslims. They are ready to cast hundreds to their deaths so that Americans, in exchange, will enjoy security and comfort. "...We must guard ourselves against this ploy and avoid, as much as possible, confrontations with the armies and forces of the state, so that we can strike lethal blows to the occupiers, Allah willing. This does not mean we will surrender to those who defend the Crusaders if they attack us; on the contrary, in this case we must resist with all the strength we have, and we must punish them so that they turn their swords toward the Americans and fight among our ranks, or refrain from entering [into] a confrontation with us - or they will stand against us and wait for what lies in store for them [at our hands], thanks to Allah and His strength..."

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:21 :36 -0400 From: MATT LEVITT <[email protected]>4| Subject: Treasury Designates Zarqawi crew

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Matthew A. Levitt Senior Fellow in Terrorism Studies The Washington Institute for Near East Policy 1828 L street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20036 Tel . 202-452-0650 Fax 202-223-5364 matt! Owashi ngtoni nsti tute . org www.washingtoninstitute.org »> [email protected] 09/24/03 07:45AM >» TREASURY DESIGNATES SIX AL-QAIDA TERRORISTS

This Department of Treasury press release may be viewed at: http : //www. treas . gov/press/rel eases/2003924735713609 . htm WASHINGTON, DC u The U.S. Treasury today announced that it has designated six individuals as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Executive order 13224, freezing any assets in the U.S.

and prohibiting transactions with U.S. nationals. Today>ts action comes in coordination with the listing of these individuals by the united Nations. a The UN action requires all UN Member States to freeze without delay any assets belonging to these individuals. a The list, submitted to the UN by Germany, includes Abu Musa/Eab Al-Zarqawi (also known as Ahmed Fadil Al-Khalayleh, among other aliases), who provided financial and other support to the terrorists who assassinated U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan last October.a Zarqawi has also been involved in smuggling terrorists into Israel, has arranged training for Jordanian terrorists in al-Qaida camps.a in his speech to the United Nations Security Council last February, secretary of State Powell revealed that under the regime of Saddam Hussein, Zarqawi and his network found refuge in Iraq and

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captious and strengthen security in case anything should happen." MISTAKEN IDENTITY? The U.S. military in South Korea referred inquiries to Washington. Some 37,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the South, including at a base near Kunsan, to help deter North Korea. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to visit South Korea next month, following postponement of an earlier visit. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is due to visit Seoul from November 5 to 7. In addition, South Korea is deciding whether to send combat troops to help U.S.-led forces in Iraq. The newspaper named the ship as the Athena, sailing from New Zealand. The New Zealand embassy in Seoul had no comment. Lloyd's Marine Intelligence Unit lists six vessels named Athena active worldwide. One of them, a large bulk carrier flying the Bahamas flag, is owned by Petrobulk Maritime in Athens. A Petrobulk spokesman confirmed this ship was plying the waters between New Zealand and South Korea but said it could not be the subject of the security alert. "This is preposterous — this is obviously a case of mistaken identity ~ there are lots of vessels called Athena," the spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday from the Greek capital. "We are flabbergasted. The ship has been sailing with the same crew for months. We are as curious as everyone else to find out exactly how this has happened," he said. Petrobulk said the ship had been regularly sub-chartered. (Additional reporting by Stefano Ambrogi in London and by Rhee So-eui, Kim Miyoung and Lee Joon-woo in Seoul) 3. U.S. offers $25 million bounty on embassy bomb suspect CNN Under its "Rewards for Justice" program, the State Department on Wednesday posted a $25 million bounty for information leading to the capture of Abu Musab al Zarqawi ~ a Jordanian with ties to al Qaeda and suspected of orchestrating the August bombing of Jordan's embassy in Baghdad. Zarqawi is also being tried in absentia for last year's killing of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan. The offer appeared Wednesday on the Rewards for Justice Web site, affiliated with the State Department. The reward is equivalent to the amount being offered for information leading to the capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and some of his top lieutenants. According to the Web site, Zarqawi "has had a long-standing connection to senior [al Qaeda] leadership and appears to be highly regarded among" the terror network. He is also described as a close associate of bin Laden and al Qaeda military leader Saif al-Adel, who U.S. intelligence officials believe is being sheltered in Iran. Zarqawi has been named by the Bush administration as an al Qaeda terrorist who fled to Iraq from Afghanistan in May 2002 for medical treatment and then stayed to organize terror plots with Ansar al-Islam ~ a radical Islamic group — which operated a training camp in northern Iraq that came under coalition control during the U.S.-led war. Prior to his stays in Afghanistan and Iraq, Zarqawi lived in Jordan, leaving in 1999, and has been wanted by the

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