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...synagogues and British targets in Istanbul, in which 61 were killed, and the August bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad in which 22 died. Some intelligence experts take the Brigades seriously--they could be "the new military wing of al-Qaeda in charge of external jihad," says Mustafa Alani, a Middle East security expert at London's Royal Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies--but no one has verified its role in those attacks. Even so, there is no question that the November bombings of the British consulate and a British-based bank in Istanbul showed that bin Laden...
...even more reason to be tense. Once accused of being lax toward extremists, Britain's crackdown on Britain-based radicals--plus Prime Minister Tony Blair's backing of the war in Iraq--may have made London a prime target. "Both sides have reached a point of confrontation," says Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London. "Terrorists might attempt something in London over Christmas for political and practical reasons." Security forces in other countries have raised their own levels of alert. This Christmas, like the last, is a season...
...even more reason to be tense. Once accused of being lax toward Islamist extremism, Britain's crackdown on U.K.-based radicals - plus Prime Minister Tony Blair's backing of the Iraq war - may have made London a prime target. "Both sides have reached a point of confrontation," says Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. "Terrorists might attempt something in London over Christmas for political and practical reasons." Security forces in other countries are concerned too, and have raised their own levels of alert. This Christmas, like last...
...This was the Hindu Kush version of "What I did on my vacation." Magnus Ranstorp, an al-Qaeda expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, speculates that the visiting Saudi wanted to immortalize his meeting with bin Laden and was planning to keep the tape private. Mustafa Alani, a Middle East security scholar at London's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies, says, "It was not the first time there has been a private video of bin Laden. They record these sort of things." Possibly it was intended for a small audience of true believers. Roland Jacquard...
...Sept. 11 hijackers and that they operated under a strict need-to-know code. Though all those who died knew they were engaged in a "martyrdom operation," said bin Laden, most of them were ignorant of the precise target of their mission until the morning it took place. Alani says, "The degree of secrecy they established was unbelievable. Only five or six people had a full picture of the whole operation." (They did not include bin Laden's "spokesman," the Kuwaiti Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who- in a glimpse into the everyday life of a terrorist- turns...