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...Khalden graduate and is prepared to testify that he saw Moussaoui there in 1998. The camp seems to have specialized in welcoming recruits earmarked for operations in Europe and North America. On Feb. 4, in an important new development, French authorities arrested Yacine Akhnouche, a 27-year-old Franco-Algerian who has become so chatty that an investigator described him as "going Ressam." Akhnouche, says this official, has said he saw Reid, Moussaoui and Ressam at training camps during his visits...
BRITAIN No Smoking Gun The case against the first person to be accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to collapse when a British judge found insufficient evidence to detain Lotfi Raissi on charges of terrorism. The Algerian-born pilot walked free on $14,200 bail after lawyers said the FBI had failed to supply direct evidence that he had trained the Sept. 11 hijackers. Raissi, who spent five months behind bars, still faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of making false statements when applying for a pilot's license...
...Khalden graduate and is prepared to testify that he saw Moussaoui there in 1998. The camp seems to have specialized in welcoming recruits earmarked for operations in Europe and North America. On Feb. 4, in an important new development, French authorities arrested Yacine Akhnouche, a 27-year-old Franco-Algerian who has become so chatty that an investigator described him as "going Ressam." Akhnouche, says this official, has said he saw Reid, Moussaoui and Ressam at training camps during his visits...
...Doha, who also goes by the names of Amar Makhlulif, Rachid Boukhalfa and Rachid Kefflous, is suspected of having been one of Ouassini Cherifi's key London contacts. An Algerian, he came to Britain in 1999 after allegedly being involved with an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Doha is suspected of being the mastermind behind the foiled millennium bomb attack on Los Angeles airport...
...London's Heathrow Airport last February, he is in custody fighting extradition to the U.S., where he was indicted in August for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and providing money, safe houses and other material support to terrorists. He is alleged to have been the handler of fellow Algerian Ahmed Ressam, an operative living in Montreal who was arrested in December 1999 while trying to cross the U.S.-Canadian border in a rental car filled with homemade explosives; in April, Ressam was convicted of plotting to blow up lax on New Year's Eve. Italian antiterrorist police believe Abu Doha...