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Qazi Liaqat Zamir, a relative of airline-terror suspect Rashid Rauf, stands next to a brand-new Jeep 4x4 outside a 6-bedroom house in Haveli Beghal village. The house, a technicolor confection of terraced concrete, is surrounded by several acres of empty land, and two Toyota Corollas are parked outside. Completing the picture of prosperity, Zamir pets a thoroughbred greyhound standing by his feet. Zamir smiles looking out over his property, and with a sweeping gesture of his hand says, "All this is because of England." England, of course, is where his relative Rauf, now in custody in Pakistan...
...streets and park in front of the British Airways office in Mirpur town center. Residents speak with thick British regional accents. "There are more mansions in Mirpur than there are in Islamabad," boasts Ashfaq Hamid, a friend of the Birmingham-based Rauf family who has come back to Haveli Beghal to build his own mansion. The 47-year-old taxi driver plans to retire here, in the town where he was born. Before that though, he would like to bring his three sons, aged 16, 18 and 20, for a visit. "I want them to learn more about their culture...
...failing to report activities to the IAEA than concealment." - By Andrew Purvis Terror Trial FRANCE Six suspected al-Qaeda operatives accused of plotting to attack U.S. targets in France in 2001 went on trial in Paris. Police said that alleged ringleader Djamel Beghal had confessed to planning to blow up the U.S. embassy; Beghal later retracted his confession and, along with his co-defendants, now denies the charges against him. A verdict is expected Feb. 16. Inside Job? PAKISTAN A suspect under arrest for conspiring to blow up President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003 has escaped from a high-security...
...from leftist radicals toward jihadists. A suspect can be tried for "associating with wrongdoers involved in a terrorist enterprise," detained without charge for up to six days - and, once charged, jailed for three years before trial. One French case now approaching the three-year mark is that of Djamel Beghal, a veteran of al-Qaeda's Afghan camps. After being arrested in the Dubai airport, Beghal confessed he was en route to France to run a network of al-Qaeda cells in Europe, one of which was supposed to mount a suicide bombing against the U.S. Embassy in Paris...
...master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also used London-based clerics as intermediaries. Similarly, jailed Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal, another Khalden trainee, told interrogators that Zubaydah personally sent him from Afghanistan in July 2001 to organize a kamikaze bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, a plot undone by Beghal's arrest in Dubai. The fear, of course, is that jihadist groups like the ones who targeted British...