Word: algerian
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...Iraqi intelligence service will set the plots in motion, then recruit or extort amateurs to do the dirty work. That's why the FBI is aggressively monitoring the 20 or so employees of Baghdad's mission to the United Nations and the smaller Iraqi interest section at the Algerian Embassy in Washington. Some of them are believed to be professional spies, others "co-opted" to do the intelligence service's bidding. "The fact the Iraqi regime doesn't have a business presence, an airlines presence or a diplomatic presence takes away a platform Saddam could have used" for spying...
...services but also by the intelligence agencies of Muslim nations, whose governments Abu Hamza regularly denounces. Indeed, many moderate Muslims have drifted away from the North London Central Mosque, put off by Abu Hamza's jihad rhetoric and the shifting crowd of itinerant young Muslim men, many of them Algerian, to whom he offers shelter and anonymity. Still, the raid did leave bruised feelings in the Muslim community, despite police insistence they avoided searching the prayer hall and covered their shoes before entering the building. Omar Bakri, the founder of the extremist Al-Muhajiroun movement and a visiting preacher...
...last Friday when Spanish police burst into flats in an apartment block in the small country town of Banyoles, north of Girona. Simultaneous raids were taking place in a dozen other apartments across northeastern Spain. By the end of the day, investigators held 16 suspects - 14 believed to be Algerian and two believed to be Moroccan - of the 20 originally detained. They discovered large quantities of bomb-making material, manuals on chemical warfare, and equipment to manufacture false credit cards and identity documents, as well as a cache of timers, fuses and remote-control devices. According to Spanish Prime Minister...
...seemed a straightforward operation. Immigration officials and police, unarmed as usual in Britain, broke into an apartment in a run-down north Manchester suburb last Tuesday, seeking a 23-year-old Algerian who had gone missing after his bid for asylum was rejected. He was to be detained, pending deportation, under anti-terrorism legislation. Instead of one man inside the apartment, however, the police found three, all of them North African. The detectives immediately checked the identities of the other two men with Scotland Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north...
...Last month's arrests near Paris followed several sweeps in November, notably the arrest of Slimane Khalfaoui, a French citizen of Algerian origin. Like many suspects taken into custody at around the same time in France and Britain, Khalfaoui - a veteran of fighting in Bosnia and Afghanistan - had been linked to others accused of plotting terror strikes in Europe, such as the alleged plan to bomb Strasbourg Cathedral in December 2000. Recent suspected Islamic radicals arrested in Europe seem to have a number of factors in common: officials say virtually all trained in Afghanistan, the Caucasus or both; most...