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...know that al-Qaeda exists from Algeria to the Philippines ... it's everywhere." -from a conversation secretly taped by the Italian police on March 22; the speaker was Essid Sami ben Khemais, a Tunisian arrested the next month for alleged terrorist offenses...
...Qaeda has its headquarters in training camps in Afghanistan. In addition to directing its own attacks, it acts as an umbrella group, financing and subcontracting operations to local networks like Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (gia), a terrorist organization active throughout Europe. The camps in Afghanistan play a vital role. Whatever network they may originally have been aligned with, visitors to the camps meet men from other groups, forge relationships and acquire the stature of soldiers in a holy war. The high command of the group includes bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian...
...London's dirty secret is that it has long been a recruiting ground for terrorists. French authorities moan with frustration at the lack of British cooperation. For years the French were unable to get London to extradite suspected members of the Algeria-based gia, responsible for a wave of bombings in Paris in the mid-1990s. The U.S. hasn't always had better luck; Americans have been trying to get their hands on Khalid al-Fawwaz, a London-based Saudi alleged to have set up an office for bin Laden in 1994 and now wanted for trial in relation...
...terrorist targets." Although this was partly related to Australia's decision to send 1500 troops to the war zone in Afghanistan, Costello insisted that Australia was "already on the list" before September 11. At number 3? Hmmm. Israel may have something to say about that. Egypt, too. And Algeria. And France. And India, the Philippines, Spain, China, Russia and a few others with a lot more scars than either Canada or Australia...
...jihad against America, thereby greatly extending his operational reach. Al Qaida-linked terror operations have been carried out by Saudis, Pakistanis, Yemenis, Egyptians, Algerians, Lebanese, Mauritanians, Palestinians and more. Many of them these men were originally affiliated with a specific national organization such as Egypt's Islamic Jihad or Algeria's Armed Islamic Group, but their allegience then shifted to bin Laden Now security officials fear that Bin Laden may be able to call for similar support from some of his Asian allies...