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...Some of the best leads on al-Qaeda's directorate now seem to be coming from Djamel Beghal, a French-Algerian who is suspected of being an al-Qaeda ringleader and who was arrested in Dubai in July on his way from Pakistan to Europe. After being convinced by Islamic scholars in Dubai of the evils of terrorism, Beghal started talking. (He is now back in France and has attempted to retract his confession.) Beghal has said that while in Afghanistan in March, he received instructions from Abu Zubaydah on a bombing campaign against American interests in Europe, including...
...FOILED A confession (since partly retracted) from suspected al-Qaeda insider Djamel Beghal...
...suspected terrorists who have used Britain as a transition point include the French national Zacarias Moussaoui and the Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal. Moussaoui, who was arrested in the U.S. before the Sept. 11 attacks, lived undisturbed for years in south London despite French warnings that he had strong links with bin Laden?s al-Qaeda organization. And Beghal, the admitted leader of a bin Laden European network, lived in Finsbury Park in the late l990s. Extradited from the United Arab Emirates, where he detailed his operation to investigators, Beghal now awaits trial in France. The hub of Islamic extremism...
...uprooting of the Beghal structure is a small victory against terrorism, but the international cooperation that produced it still has a long way to go. The decentralized justice systems of countries like Germany and Italy, for example, make coordinating domestic antiterrorist operations difficult. Nations like the Netherlands and Denmark have been slow to identify the terrorist threat in the absence of attacks on their territory. "If you have even a small population of motivated radicals, there?s a threat," the French official says. "If you?ve got a U.S. embassy, you house a target. If you have innocent people...
Though European police got lucky in unmasking the Beghal plotters, scores of sleepers unknown to security forces are in place, awaiting activation. And with bin Laden now breaking up his Afghan camps ahead of expected U.S. strikes, hundreds more will be working their way back to Europe and North America to join them in the weeks to come...