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...1970s, when criminal-justice priorities shifted to protecting citizens' rights. Ashcroft has brought it back; as of Friday, some 700 people had been locked up as result of the Sept. 11 investigation--and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with FBI help. One of them, Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, arrested in London, has been charged with failing to report his previous knee surgery when applying for a pilot's license. "We have to use every tool available to us," says a top Justice Department official. "That includes detaining people, looking for violations, being aggressive...
...INVOLVED Algerian Ahmed Ressam wants a reduced sentence after testifying against his co-conspirators...
...suspected terrorists who have used Britain as a transition point include the French national Zacarias Moussaoui and the Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal. Moussaoui, who was arrested in the U.S. before the Sept. 11 attacks, lived undisturbed for years in south London despite French warnings that he had strong links with bin Laden?s al-Qaeda organization. And Beghal, the admitted leader of a bin Laden European network, lived in Finsbury Park in the late l990s. Extradited from the United Arab Emirates, where he detailed his operation to investigators, Beghal now awaits trial in France. The hub of Islamic extremism...
Another facet of the British crackdown is to speed up the extradition process, where lengthy appeals procedures have often frustrated other governments. French authorities are still awaiting the extradition of Rachid Ramda, an Algerian arrested in Britain in 1995 for his alleged role in the Paris Métro bombings of that year. And the U.S. currently wants five terrorism suspects in British custody, including Lotfi Raissi, who has been accused by prosecutors of training four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots. Khalid al-Fawwaz, wanted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings...
...1970s, when criminal-justice priorities shifted to protecting citizens' rights. Ashcroft has brought it back; as of Friday, some 700 people had been locked up as result of the Sept. 11 investigation - and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with FBI help. One of them, Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, arrested in London, has been charged with failing to report his previous knee surgery when applying for a pilot's license. "We have to use every tool available to us," says a top Justice Department official. "That includes detaining people, looking for violations, being aggressive...