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...EUROPEAN UNION The Net Tightens Luck finally ran out for Tarek Maaroufi when Belgian police arrested the terror suspect on evidence he engaged in logistical and recruiting work for al-Qaeda. Maaroufi had avoided arrest despite being repeatedly implicated in recent inquiries. Italy linked Maaroufi to an al-Qaeda cell in Milan that was planning attacks on France, and his name surfaced in several Belgian investigations. Authorities in Brussels finally obtained sufficient evidence to arrest him on charges of membership of a terrorist organization and recruiting for a foreign army, which is illegal in Belgium. Meanwhile, in Britain, police took...
...police both he and Dahman were members of a radical group that played a major role in sending new recruits to Afghanistan and providing false documents and other support to those returning to Europe to form terror cells. He said he bought the airline tickets and obtained the fake Belgian passport that Dahman used to get to Afghanistan last year...
...giant-sized page with a joke treatise, printed in a phone-book-sized font, on the different types of collectors. As always, even the indicia gets the Ware treatment, in that typically fussy prose of his: "Also, please note, should you be a German 'Hip Hop' band, or a Belgian night club, or a student filmmaker with a project due soon and no ideas - the contents of this volume fall under the general copyright?" It goes...
...that Maaroufi, a hotly pursued terrorist in Italy, lives freely but under surveillance in Brussels. He heads a nonprofit organization of his own design, "the Institute for the Research and Study of Civilization." He says he researches Islam with funds solicited from Muslims in local mosques. "I am a Belgian citizen, and I respect the Belgian law," he insists. Maaroufi has acknowledged that he has visited the apartment of the arrested Tunisians in Milan, and he told Time he had traveled to Afghanistan last November, "but that doesn?t mean I know bin Laden...
Investigators keen to gain insight into active cells aren?t terribly interested in the activities of publicists like Qatada and al-Siri, though. They want to hear details from the far less loquacious detainees, and so far they?re not hearing much of immediate value. According to a Belgian official, when police asked Nizar Trabelsi - the ex-footballer arrested on Sept. 13 for his alleged role in a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris - why he had a Uzi submachine pistol in his Brussels apartment, he cited "sentimental reasons." Key prisoners like Bensakhria and the once talkative Beghal...