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...Rachid Ramda, as well as the duo's own detailed accounting of how that money was spent to prepare strikes. Terrorist attacks are relatively inexpensive. According to investigators' estimates, the entire 1995 Paris campaign cost no more than $19,000, while the gas-tanker bombing of a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia by an al-Qaeda assailant in April this year, which killed 21, cost a fraction of that. Ramda was arrested in 1995 on evidence that he was the financier behind the French bombings, but British authorities have repeatedly refused to extradite him to Paris, most recently citing Belkacem...
...State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, have reached levels "probably as high as they were last summer." Attacks continue. In April, a truck bomb--now thought to be the work of Islamic terrorists with links to al-Qaeda, the network headed by Osama bin Laden--crashed into a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, killing 19, including 14 German tourists. On May 8, an apparent suicide bomber in Karachi, Pakistan, pulled his car up beside a military bus loaded with French contract workers, exploded the car and killed 14. Those waiting nervously for a second al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. may have...
...maddening fuzziness of the Islamic-extremist terrorist network that makes it so hard to tackle. Throwing the term al-Qaeda like a blanket over all terrorist incidents can be misleading. "Who staged the Djerba attack?" asks a French Justice official. "Who financed the Karachi bombing? All we know is that they were Islamic extremists bent on the same sort of violence. Some groups are part of al-Qaeda, others associates of it. Still others are sympathetic fellow travelers." As if to confirm the analysis, Pakistani officials are cautious about ascribing the Karachi bomb to al-Qaeda, though they acknowledge that...
...haven't there been more attacks like those in Karachi and Djerba? Partly because of the fighting in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda had become a state within a state. A senior Italian investigator in Milan is explicit. "The war," he says, "has been a serious blow to the network here." Robbed of their central facilities in the Afghan camps, Italian cells have had to get by with less logistical support, like false documents and ready cash; communications have been hampered; and, crucially, key figures have been killed. Abdel Kader Es Sayed, an Egyptian-born terrorist who authorities say was placed...
...TUNISIA Djerba Evidence Authorities confirmed that an explosion that killed 16 people outside Africa's oldest synagogue was deliberate and said the act was planned by a man suspected of links to international Islamic groups. Investigators said the blast, caused by an exploding fuel truck, was similar to the attack on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. Police arrested an uncle of the truck driver, accusing him of complicity in the incident...