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...Qaeda structure - right up into bin Laden?s inner circle," a European justice official told TIME. Such information involves "names, responsibilities, and functions. People we weren?t even aware of before." One name officials were familiar with was bin Laden?s top terror strategist, Abu Zubaydah - who Beghal at one point said sent him to set up a European network for al-Qaeda...
Jarrah is beyond confessing, but investigators say they?ve interviewed other suspects who appear perfectly able to lead a Europeanized lifestyle while harboring deadly intentions against the West. One example: Djamel Beghal, purported leader of the cell alleged to have planned an attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris. According to a French police source, Beghal issues from the al-Qaeda-allied group Takfir wal Hijra (Anathema and Exile), whose members make a point of concealing their strict fundamentalism behind a Western fa?ade. "The goal of Takfir is to blend in to corrupt enemy societies in order to plot attacks...
...Djamel Beghal, 36 French-Algerian Status: Arrested July 28, in Dubai for traveling with a false French passport en route from Pakistan to France. Told investigators he was instructed by bin Laden associates to assemble a multicelled, Europe-based network for attacks on American targets in Paris. Has since recanted part of that confession...
Nizar Trabelsi, 31 Tunisian Status: Arrested Sept. 13 in Brussels. Suspected of involvement in preparations to attack the U.S. embassy in Paris - according to Djamel Beghal, Trabelsi was to be a bomber - and, by some accounts, NATO HQ in Brussels. Investigators say Trabelsi, Beghal and Kamel Daoudi attended the same Afghan training camp...
...Berkous are taken into custody in raids in Rotterdam Sept. 21, 2001 Lotfi Raissi, believed to have been a flight instructor for four of the hijackers, is arrested in London. French police take in seven people in the Paris suburbs believed to be members of Franco-Algerian militant Djamel Beghal?s network Sept. 25, 2001 Kamel Daoudi apprehended by police in Leicester after escaping the Sept. 21 French sweep of the Beghal group. Daoudi had lived in Djamel Beghal?s Paris-area flat, where he is believed to have maintained secure Internet communications for the group Sept. 26, 2001 Spanish...