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...similarly central to the July 2005 London attacks. Even German officials have had previous experience with radical converts: in 2003, France arrested Christian Ganczarski - a German national who has boasted his ties with top al-Qaeda leaders, and was implicated in the 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia - after Germany was forced to kick him free due to subsequently altered legal restraints. "Extremists will always turn to people Westerners won't initially suspect: converts, doctors, women," the intelligence official says. "We've seen converts, doctors, and women involved in jihadist terrorism. Expect that again, and start looking...
This characteristically French twist on an Arabic story about sex and impossibility takes place on the island of Djerba where trader husbands return to their wives for only one month of the year. That four week break in the clouds proves only to be a frenzy to catch up on lost love and conceive children. The remainder of the year on Djerba is filled with the frustration and desperation to remind the viewer that the absence of men does not necessarily free women from oppression. Director Moufida Tlatli will appear in person. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...other side of the terminal, the Air Tunis flight to Djerba boards docilely and without incident...
...police could detain him. "The Germans couldn't or wouldn't charge Ganczarski," says a French antiterrorist official. "The Americans wanted him out of commission and his terrorist links fully explored." German officials knew that the suicide bomber responsible for the April 11, 2002, explosion at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia--which killed 21 people--called Ganczarski shortly before launching his attack. They also knew that the Tunisian terrorist called al-Qaeda's operations chief, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is now in U.S. custody, around the same time. (Ganczarski denies involvement in the plot.) The phone connection was not enough...
...said his network had already sent messages to Germany and France but that "if these doses weren't enough, we are prepared with the help of Allah to inject further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France...