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GERMANY Al-Qaeda Arrests In an apparent breakthrough in the effort to apprehend members of al-Qaeda, German police arrested two Yemeni men in a hotel at Frankfurt airport. The arrests were made at the request of U.S. officials, who suspect the men of being members of the terrorist network. Authorities believe one, Mohammed Ali Ahssan al-Moayyed, is a high-ranking fundraiser for al-Qaeda, though neither is thought to have been directly involved in Sept. 11. Both the U.S. and Yemen have requested extradition, but the Justice Ministry said the men would likely be sent...
Elijah also said that it is easier for police to apprehend lower-class offenders...
...Laden's sanctuary and degraded his infrastructure of terror. Pentagon sources say that the U.S. has killed as many as eight high-ranking al-Qaeda officials, but most of the 11,000 terrorists believed to have spent time in al-Qaeda camps are still on the loose. Efforts to apprehend al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan have slowed, as thousands have bought safe refuge in the hamlets and villages of the Afghan countryside. "The mission is to take al-Qaeda apart piece by piece," says Mohammed Anwar, the head of intelligence in Mazar-i-Sharif. "But it's very difficult work...
...Despite the semantic disagreement, there's little doubt that Malaysia is cooperating with the U.S. in seeking to apprehend militants. Although Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is known to rail against U.S. policy in the Middle East and its conduct of the war in Afghanistan, he has long warned of the threat of radical Islam. Malaysian police made their first arrests - of 12 KMM members - in early August 2001, well before last year's attacks, at the time raising a chorus of complaints from human rights advocates who said the arrests were politically motivated to stamp out opposition...
...action must strike a careful balance between protecting civil liberties and providing the means for law enforcement to identify, apprehend and detain potential terrorists,” Kennedy said in a speech before the Senate last week...