Word: atta
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...euphoria of victory fades, it's becoming clear that some commanders are more equal than others. While Mohaqiq spends his days sitting by his satellite phone swatting away the occasional autumn fly in an empty meeting room, Atta's home is crowded with tribal elders and local dignitaries paying respects and requesting his signature on a flurry of papers. In turn, both Atta and Mohaqiq are required to drive out of the city to Dostum's fort when the veteran warlord summons them. (Dostum also maintains a castle-like complex in Shiburghan, some two hours west of Mazar.) And while...
...After two decades of fighting, defections and double-crosses, suspicion and betrayal are the guiding principles of any smart Afghan operator. Atta, for example, once fought with the Taliban. Dostum allied himself with Soviet forces during occupation; when they left, he sided with and then betrayed their successor, ill-fated President Najibullah, before being given up himself by onetime ally Abdul Malik. Much of the Taliban's sweeping success came from confronting the atomized, warring mujahedin factions with a nearly psychotic demand for uniformity. "The mujahedin say they are together now, but in reality no alliance ever lasts for long...
...cells of alleged al-Qaeda schemers busted in Europe over the last year have been accused of planning attacks - in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Strasbourg - that luckily never happened. None has been linked to the one that tragically did: the suicide bombing plot of Sept. 11, centered around Mohamed Atta?s apparently autonomous cell in Hamburg. That changed last week when Spanish investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, released a preliminary indictment against eight men alleged to have constituted a long-standing al-Qaeda cell in Spain...
...evidence linking Yarkas to the Sept. 11 attacks is intriguing but thin. German investigators searching the Hamburg apartment once occupied by Atta found Yarkas? former Madrid telephone number in a notebook belonging to the fugitive Said Bahaji. Yarkas reportedly told his interrogators that Islam is a "social religion" in which contacts are regularly passed around, and that he had no idea how his number had reached the Hamburg cell...
...Spanish investigators consider it "curious," one of them told Time, that six of the eight men under indictment hail from Aleppo, the ancient Syrian city about which Atta wrote his urban planning dissertation and which he visited at least once...