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...Qaeda has relied on diverse and diffuse networks and local structures in order to extend its reach. Some militants of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, for example, appear to have been persuaded to participate in al Qaeda schemes way beyond their traditional focus on terrorizing Algerians and Frenchmen. Many of al Qaeda's own structures, as well as allied networks, are probably still out there, their operational ability unaffected by the setbacks in Afghanistan. But those setbacks could cause a serious and potentially fatal morale problem for bin Laden or any other al Qaeda operatives looking to survive and fight...
...alleged al-Qaeda collaborators. German police detained Mounir el-Moutassadeq, who is believed to have had links with the Hamburg cell members who died in the Sept. 11 hijackings. Prosecutor Kay Nehm said el-Moutassadeq is accused of "knowingly supporting the terrorist organization with logistical measures." In Belgium, an Algerian man was arrested for passport forgery. He and two men being held in France may have been part of a ring suspected of supplying false papers to the assassins of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. And in Italy, police took two alleged al-Qaeda recruiters into custody...
...says an official. To that end, orders have gone out to military and CIA personnel on the ground to preserve every scrap found, down to notes from wives and scribbles on matchbooks. Yet even with a list of names, intelligence agents will have a daunting task. Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian al-Qaeda operative who turned government witness after being convicted of a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations, has told the FBI that camp officials banned the use of real names and handed out aliases. U.S. counterterror experts hope to pierce this security veil...
Direct links to bin Laden focus on just one man, the apparent leader of the Algerian cell. Bensayah Belkacem, 41, alias Mejd, lived with his Bosnian wife and two children in the central town of Zenica until his arrest last month. Combing through his dingy ground-floor apartment, investigators found two sets of identity papers (Algerian and Yemeni), blank passports and on a small piece of paper the number of a senior bin Laden aide, Abu Zubaydah, himself a veteran of the Bosnian war. Investigators say he is now in charge of screening recruits for al-Qaeda training camps...
...other suspects are mostly foreign-born nationals and belong to a community of about 200 ex-mujahedin who came to Bosnia to fight alongside fellow Muslims during the war and later settled in the interior, often marrying Bosnian women and working at humanitarian agencies. Saber Lahmar, the Algerian who allegedly placed the incriminating phone call on Oct. 16, served time in Bosnia for auto theft before being pardoned in 2000. He worked at the Saudi High Commission for Relief, an agency that has given $500 million to Bosnia. Others, according to local reports, worked at the Red Crescent society, Taibah...