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...from America's Criminal Investigation Command (CID), police nabbed the pair on suspicion of plotting to bomb a U.S. military base near Heidelberg. After searching the couple's apartment, investigators found five rudimentary pipe bombs, raw material for 18 kilos of explosive powder, and a portrait of Osama bin Laden. Petmezci and Eyzaguirre are now in custody, awaiting trial. Another victory for German law enforcement? Not quite. CID's Aug. 29 warning wasn't the first call from CID, but the third. The first call was delivered on July 17; another was made on July...
...authorities for being caught by surprise if something terrible does happen? An early indication that al-Qaeda might be turning its sights on Europe came in an audio recording of Ayman al-Zawahiri broadcast by the Qatar-based television network al-Jazeera on Oct. 8. The Egyptian doctor, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, said his network had already sent messages to Germany and France but that "if these doses weren't enough, we are prepared with the help of Allah to inject further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing...
...Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has unambiguously chosen Washington's side in its war with al-Qaeda, arresting scores of al-Qaeda suspects - even, reportedly, bin Laden's youngest wife, 20-year-old Amal al-Saddah. But despite the crackdown, al-Qaeda elements have found support among tribal chieftains in more remote parts of Yemen, where they have taken shelter, and the government's ability to act against them has been limited. Indeed, it is the very weakness of the Yemeni state that makes it such an attractive base for bin Laden...
...Hellfire missiles fired from Predator aircraft became a familiar part of the effort in Afghanistan to target such key leaders as bin Laden himself and Taliban chief Mullah Omar - with limited success. The idea of targeting terrorist quarry from the skies far beyond the open battlefields of Afghanistan is, of course, a different proposition. And it's unlikely to become a norm. That's because it only really becomes feasible in situations where the sovereign power is either both hostile to the U.S. and unable to police its own airspace (as was the case in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan), or else...
...Yemen has it's own reasons for wanting to rid itself of al-Qaeda. The country sent thousands of young men to join the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and hundreds more drifted over there in the 1990s and became disciples of bin Laden. That left Yemen with one of the Arab world's largest concentrations of al-Qaeda supporters, which threatens President Saleh's plans to strengthen ties with the West. Recent suspected al-Qaeda operations in Yemen have included attacks on a French oil tanker and a U.S. oil company, underscoring the terrorist threat...