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3) Distorted Intelligence? By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Newsweek Secret German records cast doubt on the Saddam-AI Qaeda connection. Plus, why Qatar is footing the legal bills for an 'enemy combatant' June 25 — Hundreds of pages of confidential German law-enforcement records raise new questions about the Bush administration's core evidence purporting to show solid links between Osama bin Laden's terror network and Saddam Hussein's regime.

THE VOLUMINOUS GERMAN records, obtained by NEWSWEEK, seem to undercut highly touted administration claims that Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, a hardened Jordanian terrorist who once received medical treatment in Baghdad, was a key player in Al Qaeda. In fact, the secret German records—compiled during interrogations with a captured Zarqawi associate—suggest that theshadowy-Z-arqawj headed his own terrorist group, called Al Tawhid, with its own goals and mayeven have been a jealqus rival of Al Qaeda. The captured associate^Shadi Abdallah, whqjis now on trial in Germany, told his interrogators last year that ZafTjassi^tjT^wjd-efganization was one of several Islamist groups that acted "in opposition" to bin Laden's Al Qaeda. At one point, Abdallah described how Zarqawi even vetoed the idea of splitting charity funds collected in Germany between Al Tawhid and Al Qaeda. While the internal machinations between Al Tawhid and Al Qaeda may seem obscure, they cut to the heart of one of the most politically sensitive issues in Washington at the moment: whether the Bush White House exaggerated and distorted U.S. intelligence to justify the war on Iraq. Much of the debate revolves around claims that Saddam had large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons—stockpiles that so far have not been found. But an equally fierce debate has been taking place behind the scenes about the handling of sketchy, and at times, contradictory evidence relating to Saddam's supposed connections with Al Qaeda. Zarqawi was at the center of those claims. In a Cincinnati speech delivered Oct. 7, on the eve of a congressional vote authorizing him to wage war on Iraq, President Bush asserted that "Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade." His chief example was that "one very senior Al Qaeda leader" had "received medical treatment in Baghdad"—an obvious reference to Zarqawi, who had his leg amputated there in 2002. Zarqawi received even more prominence in secretary of State Colin Powell's Feb. 5 presentation to the United Nations Security Council. In that address, Powell described Zarqawi as "an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants." During his stay in Baghdad, Powell claimed that "nearly two dozen...al Qaeda affiliates" converged on the Iraqi capital and "established a base of operations there." But the German interrogations of Shadi Abdallah present a more complex and somewhat different picture of Zarqawi's role in international terrorism. According to Abdullah, Zarqawi's Al Tawhid group focuses on installing an Islamic regime in Jordan and killing Jews. And although Al Tawhid maintained its own training camp near Herat, Afghanistan, Zarqawi competed with bin Laden for trainees and members, Abdallah claimed. A Jordanian native who migrated to Europe in the mid 1990s and became involved in militant Islamic activities in an effort to escape personal problems stemming from his acknowledged drug use and homosexuality. Shadi Abdallah is now on trial in Duesseldorf, Germany on charges of plotting with Zarqawi and other members of an alleged Al Tawhid cell in Germany to attack Jewish or Israeli targets inside Germany. Abdallah could get ten years if convicted on the charges, but is believed to have become a key German government informant and witness against other Al Tawhid operatives who will be tried later. Transcripts of Abdallah's interrogations over several months last year by investigators from Germany's Federal Criminal Police are perhaps the most important hard evidence collected by

5) Saudi Arabia Arrests a Suspect in the Riyadh Bombings By DOUGLAS JEHL New York Times WASHINGTON, June 26 — Saudi Arabia has arrested a senior figure in Al Qaeda who is believed to have played a crucial role in planning and carrying out the May bombings in Riyadh that killed 34 people, including 8 Americans. The same man was thought to be planning further operations against American targets^ senipr_Amer|cani and Saudj .government officials said today. The arrest of the suspectfAli Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi,aJ^> known as Abu Bakr alAzdi, was described by thVofficials as a major step. He was_p©fhdps the most senior Qaeda official in Saudi Arabia, the olflctalb bdid, and had ctOgeTiriks to other Qaeda leaders, including Saif al-Adel, a fugitive who is regarded as Al Qaeda's security chief. Mr. Ghamdi had been named by Saudi officials as the prime suspect in the May bombings. His name and picture were also included among those of the 19 men sought in connection with an arms cache that was seized in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, several days before the attack. A senior Saudi official said tonight that Mr. Ghamdi surrendered this morning to the Saudi authorities in Jidda, a port city on the Red Sea. The official described Mr. Ghamdi as "one of Al Qaeda's top operatives in Saudi Arabia" and said he had been the subject of an intense manhunt for weeks. "This is a significant development," the senior Saudi official said. The American officials did not disclose the details of future operations that Mr. Ghamdi was thought to have been planning but said they were to have taken place both inside and outside of Saudi Arabia. At least 11 suspects were arrested last month in connection with the bombings on May 12 of three housing compounds in Riyadh, according to Saudi officials. Some Saudi newspapers had reported that those arrested at that time included Mr. Ghamdi. But today's accounts by the American officials were the most authoritative indication that Mr. Ghamdi was now in custody. Some of the Americans who died in the attacks worked for defense firms that were part of a United States military program that provides training to the Saudi National Guard, and the United States Embassy in Riyadh has since warned that more attacks on American targets in the kingdom could be coming. Prince Nayef, the Saudi interior minister, would not confirm last month whether Mr. Ghamdi had been arrested, but he said a full report would be released whenever the investigation was concluded. An American government official described Mr. Ghamdi as being 30 years old and said he had risen swiftly in the Qaeda ranks in the last year. He had fled Afghanistan's Tora Bora region in the late fall of 2001, said the official, just before American bombing attacks there began. A Saudi newspaper, Al Watan, has reported that Mr. Ghamdi dropped out of college to join the mujahedeen, or holy warriors, and had made several trips to Afghanistan. A letter circulating on the Internet that has been attributed to Mr. Ghamdi exhorts the faithful to join the holy war against the West because the struggle had not reached its peak. But an elder in his family, 13 of whose members have been accused of taking part in terrorist attacks, has denied to the Beirut-based Arabic daily Al Hayat that the letter was written by Mr. Ghamdi.

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that it is possible that an end will never be declared. "I would guess there will be an end," Rumsfeld said. "Can I tell you for sure? No.... This isn't World War I or World War II, that starts and then ends. Take Afghanistan. We've moved from major military activities to a point where at the present time, the vast majority of the country is in a stabilization security mode." An announcement from Bush could come during his visit Thursday and Friday to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, returning from the Persian Gulf region. Although fighting has wound down throughout Iraq, Pentagon officials said Friday that there are still "pockets" of resistance. "This morning, a 20- to 30-man Iraqi paramilitary force attacked a coalition patrol northwest of Mosul," said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Coalition forces killed several of the attackers and destroyed two of the so-called technical vehicles, the trucks with the machine guns on them." Also, he said, "a two-man enemy paramilitary element was engaged in south Baghdad; one was killed, one was captured." Rumsfeld pointed to the continued fighting when he was asked if the United States will choose not to declare a formal end to the war in order to avoid the responsibilities the Geneva Conventions impose on a postwar occupying power. "There's not an attempt to avoid anything except getting more people killed," he replied, "and an attempt to try to get that country and those people in a process that'll produce a free Iraqi government."

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I Al-Qaeda Seeks Canadian Operatives; To get around tighter U.S. security, Osama Bin Laden is trying to recruit disaffected Muslims north of the border By ELAINE SHANNON TIME Magazine

It stands to reason that Canadians who grew up 200 miles from Detroit are a better bet to navigate America's anti-terror tripwires than, say, native-born Kuwaitis or Yemenis. That's why the FBI and CIA were so concerned about Abdulrahman Mansour Jabarah, 24, an al-Qaeda suspect killed on July 3 by Saudi authorities in a firelight near the Jordanian border. Jabarah is the older brother of Mohammed "Sammy" Jabarah, who is currently in U.S custody and has, according to U.S. officials, admitted involvement in a series of al-Qaeda plots in Southeast Asia. What marks the Jabarah brothers as somewhat unique among al-Qaeda operatives is their background as Canadians — their Iraqi father and Kuwaiti mother had emigrated to St. Catherines, Ontario, about 200 miles north of Detroit, in 1994. The boys are believed to have traveled to Pakistan and joined Al Qaeda in the late 1990s, and despite his relative youth, one U.S. official describes the brother killed last week as "a nasty, nasty man." The FBI believes that al-Qaeda recruiters are aggressively enrolling youths like the Jabarahs, with U.S., Canadian or Western European passports and good command of the English language and the North American interior. While the network had always tried to recruit people with U.S. and other Western passports, FBI counter-terrorism chief Larry Mefford recently revealed that al-Qaeda was "refocusing its efforts" to sign on disaffected Americans, green-card holders and Muslims who had spent time in the U.S. as students or visitors who had a good command of English and a working knowledge of American society and culture. This effort comes in response to the Bush administration's tightening up the supply of visas available to would-be visitors from nations such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, Pakistan, Egypt and Southeast Asian countries where alQaeda has a strong presence. Recruits with greater access to and knowledge of the U.S. have a better chance of navigating some of the traps set by U.S. and Canadian authorities to catch terrorists coming from abroad. But some of the other Qaeda operatives killed or captured by the Saudis last week were bigger fish than the Jabarahs, and their demise could hobble some current terror plots. U.S. officials believe some may have even been plotting attacks on the American mainland. Turki Nasser al-Dandani, the commander of the terror cell that mounted the May 12 suicide truck bombings, was cornered by Saudi police July 3 in the town of Sowair, near the border with Jordan.- He blew himself up with a hand grenade rather than being taken alive. U.S. intelligence reports describe him as head of Persian Gulf operations for al-Qaeda, responsible for land and maritime attacks on U.S. and Western interests throughout the region. His knowledge of al-Qaeda plans could extend to schemes in Asia, Europe and the U.S., officials say. Al-Dandani had fought against U.S. forces inside Afghanistan until the fall of the Taliban. He was close to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani took over the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured in separate incidents, say U.S. officials. But the highest ranking Al Qaeda figure taken down in the Saudi offensive is Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi alGhamdi, aka "Abu Bakr," al-Qaeda field commander for Saudi Arabia and al-Dandani's boss. Al-Ghamdi surrendered June 26 in exchange for his wife's freedom. IsTofficials are hopingfor an intelligence windfall if al-Ghamdi talks^He had trained at Bin Laden's al-Farouq ~ and fought with the al-Uaeda leader at I ora Bora. EScapingffne U.S. bombardment, he returned to his native Saudi Arabia and reported to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, plotting "second wave" attacks on Americans and their allies until Mohammed's arrest in Pakistan last March. As more and more al-Qaeda field leaders were rounded up, al-Ghamdi rose in the ranks, safely hiding in Saudi Arabia until the May 12 attacks galvanized the

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