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...know how short Manhattan?s north-south streets are. So, to put it in terms the American driving public can understand, we?re four-tenths of a mile away from the great crematorium. Tribeca is the nice place near the awful place: Beverly Hills down the block from Bosnia. But proximity to an instant cemetery gives us a vicarious creepiness, what with the acrid stench of compressed steel and flesh, and the constant police presence; a few weeks ago a three-foot concrete barricade was erected around the Western Union Building across the street, presumably because of the telcom companies...
...Laden's personal security detail. Most are veterans of battles against regimes in their homelands or the mujahedin war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Primarily led by Egyptian and Saudi revolutionaries, Brigade 055 (the unit began as a Soviet-era Afghan-government outfit) also includes volunteers from Chechnya, Pakistan, Bosnia, China and Uzbekistan...
Bensayah Belkacem, 41 Algerian Status: Arrested Oct. 8 in Zenica, Bosnia. Suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell. Numbers in his mobile phone link him to at least one of bin Laden?s top lieutenants. Arrested on tip from U.S. Calls to bin Laden?s aides, intercepted by intelligence organizations, suggest he was trying to arrange for false papers...
...center, which opened in 1989, has been under surveillance since its days in the 1990s as a base for both humanitarian and military aid to Muslims in Bosnia. In June 1995, police raided the premises and arrested dozens of men on allegations of terrorism. One of Shaari?s predecessors, Anwar Shaban, who was under investigation in Italy for possible terrorist links, was later killed under mysterious circumstances in Croatia after going to help the Bosnian cause. The Milan institute?s name pops up again in the trial of suspects in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa...
...Paris-area flat, where he is believed to have maintained secure Internet communications for the group Sept. 26, 2001 Spanish police detain Mohammed Belaziz, allegedly a would-be suicide bomber for the attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, along with five other Algerians. Further arrests are made in Bosnia Sept. 29, 2001 Police in Wiesbaden, Germany take Talip Tolgay and two other terrorist suspects into custody. Weapons, fake identity and credit cards and an invoice for a return air ticket to Islamabad via London are seized Oct. 1, 2001 Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin (a.k.a. Frances Etim) apprehended...