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...after French officials found a number of their suspects crossing paths with him. They asked Spanish law enforcement to search Zougam's Madrid apartment, where he lived with his mother, who had taken him from Tangiers when he was 10, and two sisters. Inside police found videotapes on bin Laden and jihad and the telephone numbers of three members of the Soldiers of Allah cell run by Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah. In November 2001 Spanish authorities jailed Yarkas, believed to be the leader of al-Qaeda's cells in Spain, for allegedly helping...
...intelligence officials acknowledge that the U.S.'s success in dismantling bin Laden's organization has not lessened the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaeda has spawned a movement greater than itself. "Al-Qaeda has infected others with its ideology," CIA director George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature...
...foreign fighters coming across the border," says Kimmitt. He thinks there are a "couple of hundred" extremists doing the dirty work, including a few al-Qaeda elements, remnants of Ansar al-Islam that were dispersed from their headquarters in the Kurdish north during the war, Sunni extremists who share bin Laden's radical brand of Islam and a trickle of individual volunteer jihadis...
More than two years, two wars and billions of dollars in intelligence expenditures have made the U.S. more effective than ever at hunting and pre-empting terrorists. Much of the old al-Qaeda leadership has been destroyed, along with many of its trained field operatives. Though bin Laden and al-Zawahiri remain at large, U.S. officials believe they have been "off net" for some time, relying on laborious courier traffic to communicate with their subordinates. That means logistical planning for attacks has been done independently of them...
...hundreds or thousands of troops that are in the large encampments, there are only a dozen Green Berets from what is known as Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 936 and a smattering of Marines. But they are dangling far from safety to attract a big catch. "This is Osama bin Laden's backyard," says the team sergeant. "And part of the solution to tracking him is having guys like us out here in isolated areas...