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...hard to solve a crime if you can't keep track of the suspects. Just ask federal investigators trying to unravel the Algerian Connection: the conspiracy behind Ahmed Ressam's attempt to bring bombmaking materials into the U.S. last December. Until they can interrogate some missing players, the feds won't know if the plot is the work of alleged terror nemesis Osama bin Laden...
First, Canadian authorities could not find Ressam's Algerian compatriot, Abdelmajid Dahoumane, indicted with Ressam for transporting explosives and timing devices from Canada into the U.S. on Dec. 14. While an uncooperative Ressam pleaded not guilty last Thursday in Seattle, Dahoumane remains at large. Then Irish police lost track of Hamid Aich, also Algerian. He lived in Vancouver at the same time as Dahoumane, and the U.S. would like to question him. But he had ducked out to Ireland, where he was arrested briefly during the holidays, then released. Now he has disappeared. Last week came the clincher...
...havoc anywhere in the world at the click of a Send button, this ubiquity says more about the diffuse nature of his operations. U.S. investigators were reported Thursday to have uncovered links between Bin Laden and the bomb plot foiled last December by the arrest of a number of Algerian militants on U.S. soil. The suspected head of the Canada-based Algerian group was arrested recently in Senegal, at Washington's request, pending formal charges. Investigators say Mohambedou Ould Slahi also happens to be the brother-in-law of one of Bin Laden's key lieutenants. And the roommate...
...Armed Islamic Group - with which the group arrested in the U.S. is believed to be aligned - long predated Bin Laden and have an entirely independent leadership structure, they are reported to have received financial and training assistance from the Saudi financier's Al Qaeda group. And because the Algerian group has no history of targeting the U.S., investigators suspect they may have been acting on behalf of Bin Laden, possibly to return a favor. But while finding a connection between Bin Laden and a group of Islamic terrorists may not be that difficult, it may be a lot harder...
PLEADED NOT GUILTY. AHMED RESSAM, 32, Algerian arrested near the Canadian border after bombmaking parts were found in his car; to charges of illegally carrying explosives and making false statements to customs authorities; in Seattle...