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...first in April and then in October - represents the way things are supposed to work. There have been other successful international busts in Europe: when police used a French tip and moved in on the so-called Meliani cell in Frankfurt last Dec. 26, they arrested two Iraqis, an Algerian and a French Muslim, but they didn?t get "Meliani" himself - Algerian Mohammed Bensakhria. The Spanish police did, acting on German information, on June 22, by which time the formerly sleek 40-year-old had grown a scruffy beard and melded into the transient worker milieu of Alicante...
...their part, British authorities have started to move; the Home Office says two dozen persons are under active investigation for links to al-Qaeda, of whom Lotfi Raissi, Algerian pilot accused of teaching four of the suicide pilots, has been arrested. On Tuesday, antiterrorist police arrested Yasser al-Siri, 38, an Egyptian suspected of being involved in the "commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." A self-proclaimed advocate of human rights for the world?s Muslims, al-Siri?s Islamic Observation Center recently publicized the warning from bin Laden military chief Mohammed Atef that Aghans would drag slain...
Djamel Beghal, 36 French-Algerian Status: Arrested July 28, in Dubai for traveling with a false French passport en route from Pakistan to France. Told investigators he was instructed by bin Laden associates to assemble a multicelled, Europe-based network for attacks on American targets in Paris. Has since recanted part of that confession...
Bensayah Belkacem, 41 Algerian Status: Arrested Oct. 8 in Zenica, Bosnia. Suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell. Numbers in his mobile phone link him to at least one of bin Laden?s top lieutenants. Arrested on tip from U.S. Calls to bin Laden?s aides, intercepted by intelligence organizations, suggest he was trying to arrange for false papers...
...matter, however, European investigators are clear: there is something truly ruthless about the suspected terrorists they are finding. After six Algerians were picked up in Spain in September, police found videotapes in the apartment of one of the men. One tape showed four Algerian soldiers, with their throats cut, dying in a burning jeep...