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Mohammed Bensakhria, 40 Algerian Status: Arrested in Alicante, Spain, June 22; extradited to France in July. Believed to be head of a Frankfurt cell and a key player in organizing bin Laden terrorist groups in Europe. Fled Frankfurt after police foiled a plot to attack a Strasbourg market in December...
Amar Makhlulif (Abu Doha), 36 Algerian Status: Accused of organizing planned attack on Los Angeles airport, Dec. 31, 1999. Fighting extradition to U.S. from London. American prosecutors claim Doha was a key figure at bin Laden training camps and also helped al-Qaeda members organize travel in preparation for the L.A. attack...
Central to that question is whether or not the terrorists were originally sent to Hamburg as agents by Osama bin Laden. Were they "sleepers," for years going about their daily business until they were activated to take part in the hijacking plot? German police believe that scenario is unlikely. "We think the terrorists came to Hamburg to study, didn?t do anything extremist and were eventually recruited by agents of bin Laden," said a police official in Hamburg. In all, three of the hijackers and at least three accomplices who are now fugitives lived in Hamburg, at various times...
...while attending a mosque or Islamic meetings," said a police official. The run-down al-Quds mosque, where the terrorists worshiped, didn?t set off any alarm bells, although Bahaji had come under surveillance briefly in 1998. A Hamburg-based Syrian entrepreneur, Mamoun Darkanzli, who had ties to a bin Laden money man, also attended the mosque without police notice...
...institute and meeting place, motions with his head toward the trio - one with a long dark beard, the other two without - huddled in conversation. "Look at those three," said Shaari, an affable Libyan-born architect. "They might be talking about their families or last night?s soccer match or bin Laden. How should I know their discussion...