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...want to be able to walk around at midnight and feel safe. Then the Americans should leave.' SHAKER ALWAN, who recently fled his home in Baqubah, Iraq, after four mutilated bodies were dumped nearby, saying the U.S. should consider postponing its planned June 30 troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities...
...seem to have dimmed Americans' sense that their troops are doing a good job there or diminished Bush's popularity. But what would happen if the trickle of deaths turned into a flood? "It is natural to kidnap American soldiers because they have occupied us," says Tihan Alwan, a village elder standing outside the mosque at Halabsa, a town close to the place from which the two American soldiers were abducted last week. "Not only kidnap," adds his friend Wadah al-Hamdani. "We're going to kill them like sheep." Then he made one of those motions understood...
...Alwan, 29, was the first man the FBI questioned. He said he'd been in Pakistan in 2001 along with the other suspects. But he insisted the group had merely attended Muslim religious training. Mosed and Taher backed his story...
Agents continued tracking the men and got a big break last week. On Wednesday, an FBI agent located C in an undisclosed country. According to a federal complaint filed in Buffalo, C was read his Miranda rights and repeated most elements of Alwan's story. The agent pressed and, according to the complaint, C admitted "he had not been fully candid." (The FBI has rules against physical intimidation, but agents sometimes suggest to suspects abroad that cooperation is preferable to arrest in the country in which they've been nabbed.) C was read his rights a second time and started...
...complaint says C admitted that he, B, Goba and Alwan had actually gone to Kandahar and attended al-Qaeda's al-Farooq training camp. The group learned how to use assault and long-range rifles and handguns, and A received heavy-artillery training. Osama bin Laden allegedly spoke to the campers. (John Walker Lindh was at al-Farooq at the same time, but officials declined to say whether he assisted with the investigation.) Once C cracked, agents in Lackawanna confronted Alwan, who confessed and said the five Buffalo suspects had traveled to Afghanistan in two separate groups that spring...