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...support and acquiescence, the Bush administration has now turned to UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to come up with a plan - and President Bush has made clear that he'll pretty much support whatever Brahimi decides. But as much as the administration is now depending on the efforts of the Algerian diplomat who reported back to the UN Security Council Tuesday, Brahimi is in no sense a servant of the U.S. His views on the situation in Iraq are at odds with the U.S. on the question of using force at Fallujah and Najaf, and he angered Israel and its supporters...
Bojinka was only one of several hints of potential attacks involving aircraft, yet U.S. intelligence did not give the idea serious consideration. Others included an attempt by Algerian terrorists to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1994. A foreign intelligence service told U.S. agents in 1998 of al-Qaeda plans to hijack a plane and bargain for the release of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who was in a U.S. prison for his role in the first World Trade Center attack...
...thwart terrorism. One is to deport foreign militants following arrests for relatively minor offenses. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is thinking about extending the same approach to newly naturalized suspects, based on a year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve his sentence, be stripped of his French citizenship and deported back to Algeria - which has been known to torture jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from...
...puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also used London-based clerics as intermediaries. Similarly, jailed Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal, another Khalden trainee, told interrogators that Zubaydah personally sent him from Afghanistan in July 2001 to organize a kamikaze bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, a plot undone by Beghal's arrest in Dubai. The fear, of course, is that jihadist groups like the ones who targeted...
...satellite-phone conversation in which Mullah Fouad, a 32-year-old Iraqi, speaking from Syria, told a Hamburg operative: "I need Japanese guys here," presum- ably a reference to kamikaze-style bombers. The Italians issued an arrest warrant for the man they believe to be that operative, an Algerian called Abderrazak Mahdjoub, who was arrested by German police on suspicion of recruiting Islamic militants to join the jihad in Iraq. Lawyers for Mahdjoub, 29, were unavailable for comment. Italian authorities said warrants had been issued for five of his associates, and that three - two Tunisians and a Moroccan - had been...