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There's good news for the 434 suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks...
FRANCE On June 12 antiterrorist police arrested five men from Pakistan and North Africa they believe may have had contact with or provided logistical support for alleged "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his attempt to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight last December...
...least two mosques in the Broward County area that have since been linked to extremist activity. One is the Darul Uloom Islamic Institute in Pembroke Pines. Last month two men in their 20s who had frequented the Darul Uloom mosque were arrested on federal charges of plotting to blow up electrical power stations in South Florida as part of a "holy war" against the U.S. Maulana Shafayat, imam of the Darul Uloom mosque, says he condemns extremist ideology. But, he concedes, "a certain percentage [of converts] do get radical. They are mostly less educated, and they are the ones...
...bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain he is the man they want. In 1995 Mohammed was in Manila, where Yousef planned the so-called Bojinka (Serbo-Croat for explosion) plot to blow up airliners as they flew from Asia to the U.S. The scheme was uncovered when a fire broke out in an apartment doubling as a bomb factory. Yousef escaped, only to be captured in Pakistan a month later, but documents and computers left in the apartment linked Mohammed to Bojinka...
...Bush Administration would certainly like to know. "We went to the Israelis and said, 'What's going on?'" says a senior State Department official. "Their answer was, 'We're going down to the Muqata'a, and we're going to blow up some buildings.' They haven't given us a particularly cogent reason why they decided to do this...