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What's driving the 9/11 families to expand the case, sources say, is new information coming from Europe, documenting a money trail from Saudi Arabia to the Hamburg, Germany, terrorist cell led by 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta. A royal family member told TIME the case is "baseless, offering false hope to victims' families by smearing honest Saudis...
...senior federal sources say that the investigation of the hijackers' sojourn in San Diego has concluded that they paid their bills with money transferred via the same channels that funneled money to Mohammed Atta and other hijackers based in Florida: al-Qaeda financial operatives transferred funds to them accounts in the United Arab Emirates. "We had ample opportunity with Al Bayoumi in custody to run out that end of it, and it didn't produce," says a federal law enforcement official. "That's why he was cut loose. We could not find any contact between him and terrorists, any involvement...
...were alarmed. "We're absolutely scrambling here," said a harried top French terrorist judge. "Every light in every service in France is full red." Europeans have long known that terror groups are active in their midst - whether in elaborately organized groups like the Hamburg cell that supported Mohamed Atta or the smaller, less formal network that investigators believe assisted the attempted shoebomber, Richard Reid. But what has officials spooked right now is an emerging pattern of threats that suggest an attack may be imminent. Far less clear is what governments expect people to do about it: wake up from their...
...future, the group is now more dispersed and thus more difficult to track. "They can operate in ones and twos," says a White House aide. German authorities nabbed one last week, arresting Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, a Moroccan suspected of ties to the Hamburg cell of Sept. 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta. Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials are investigating reports that Ramzi Binalshibh, a Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan last month, may have been the head of a fifth hijacking team, assigned to crash an airliner into the White House. If so, it's likely that...
...future, the group is now more dispersed and thus more difficult to track. "They can operate in ones and twos," says a White House aide. German authorities nabbed one last week, arresting Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, a Moroccan suspected of ties to the Hamburg cell of Sept. 11 ringleader Mohamed Atta. Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials are investigating reports that Ramzi Binalshibh, a Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan last month, may have been the head of a fifth hijacking team, assigned to crash an airliner into the White House. If so, it's likely that...