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...that is why I would not be surprised if al-Qaeda strikes in the month of Ramadan." While they try to anticipate the next attack, security forces are sifting through previous ones for clues. Last Tuesday French investigators resumed interrogation of six family members of the Djerba suicide bomber Nizar Naouar, whose last phone call before his death was to suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The satellite phone he used was purchased in Paris by his supposedly impoverished 22-year-old brother, Wahid, for [EURO] 1,900. The cost, and the complicated manner in which the phone...
ARRESTED. ABU QATADA, 42, Islamic cleric believed to be a key figure in the al-Qaeda network; during an armed raid on his hideout in London. Often described as Osama bin Laden's ambassador in Europe, he has been linked to shoe bomber Richard Reid and accused 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui...
...slightly more powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. Then, as terrified customers poured into the street from the bars, came the real thing; a Mitsubishi L300 minivan had pulled up to the sidewalk, packed with C4 high explosive and ammonium nitrate--around the world, the car bomber's favorite recipe. The van blew up. Survivors tell of the familiar horrors of terrorism: bodies with legs and heads and breasts blown off, roasted skin peeling away from arms, daughters crying for their mothers, mothers desperate to find their kids, a place that only two weeks...
...area, however, as in many places live ammunition still lies scattered on the seabed. War booty apart, diving in and around the pristine waters off Trinco yields untold other treasures. Manta rays and dolphins are regularly seen, while whales venture close to shore. All that, and not a dive bomber in sight...
...when they're up against a wall. Some 700 hostages remain captive in a large theater complex Friday, cowering for a third day under the guns of 30 or 40 Chechens - half of them reportedly women in headscarves; all of them reportedly wearing the explosive belts of the suicide bomber - who have threatening to blow the building unless Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya. The Chechens have reportedly set a deadline of 6am, Moscow time (10pm, EST) for their demands to be met, after which they'll begin executing their captives. They have described themselves as "smertniki" - those condemned to death...