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Last week's detention by U.S. troops of six suspected al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in Bosnia showed just how hard the Bush Administration is willing to lean on other friendly governments in the war on terror. The six Algerians, who at the time held Bosnian papers, were arrested by Bosnian authorities in October after U.S. intelligence picked up phone conversations about possible attacks on the American and British embassies in Sarajevo. Citing the need to protect its sources, however, the U.S. refused to give its records to Bosnian prosecutors. When Bosnia's Supreme Court ruled that it had insufficient evidence...
...mysterious guest. He was first identified by Saudi officials as Sheik al-Ghamdi, a militant Saudi cleric and former professor of Islamic theology known for making firebrand anti-Western speeches. Later, senior Saudi officials said the guest was Khaled al-Harbi, a legless veteran of combat in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya, according to the New York Times and U.S. officials. In the video, the shadowy guest relays the prayers and support of several militant Saudi clerics, which suggested to some that he was a religious figure himself. The guest tells bin Laden that the terrorist is a hero to these...
...structure leading all the way up to bin Laden and those around him. Instead, it evolved out of bin Laden's own core of Arab veterans of the Afghan anti-Soviet war merging with elements of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and other groups, engaging with local Islamic struggles from Bosnia and Chechnya to the Philippines and Somalia by providing trained fighters and funding, gradually building up an international movement with al Qaeda at its core. Islamist terrorism predated bin Laden; his unique contribution was to turn it, through a series of mergers and alliances, into a single movement with global...
...This is worse than Beirut, man. I was there. This is worse than Bosnia, worse than Kosovo, worse than Colombia. This is the worst devastation of infrastructure I've ever seen...
...Qadi says his charity, known as Blessed Relief, has long been dormant, a contention echoed by a senior Saudi official. But U.S. sources tell TIME that intelligence shows movements of people, money and weapons to Muslim fighters in Bosnia financed by the charity as recently as 1999. It's clear that U.S. officials are not going to let the Saudis off the hook easily...