Word: doha
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...Aguilera. But America - and Americans - are not embraced by all. A deadly reminder of that came at 9.15am Tuesday when an unknown gunman shot dead an American civilian and critically wounded a second at an intersection close to a McDonald's restaurant a few miles southeast of Camp Doha, the main American army base in Kuwait...
...convicted. If they are, British authorities will have unraveled an Algerian terror network whose presence in the country had until now gone largely undetected. Possible links are turning up all the time. Rabah Kadre, one of the three Algerians arrested in November, is alleged to have connections with Abu Doha, an Algerian now in high-security Belmarsh prison suspected of being an al-Qaeda operative. Doha, who is apparently connected with alleged terrorist cells around Europe, is also awaiting extradition to the U.S. as a suspect in the plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport...
...factors in common: officials say virtually all trained in Afghanistan, the Caucasus or both; most had direct contact with the captured al-Qaeda commander Abu Zubaydah or one of his close deputies, such as Abu Atiyya; and, once back in Europe, many received orders at some stage from Abu Doha, a high-ranking Algerian al-Qaeda operative now imprisoned in Britain. Abu Doha is awaiting extradition to the U.S. for his alleged role in directing Ahmed Ressam, the confessed "millennium bomber," whose plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport was thwarted in December 1999. Virtually everyone linked to the Strasbourg...
...Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it allegedly prepared for an attack on the Strasbourg Cathedral. He has also been linked to Ressam's failed millennium plot. Evidence and testimony indicate that both plots were overseen from London by al-Qaeda's main European terrorism commander, Abu Doha, an Algerian Islamist arrested in February 2001. Khalfaoui has also been linked to Doha associate Rabah Kadre, arrested by police in London last month under Britain's Terrorism Act amid reports that he and two confederates were planning a gas attack on the London Underground. The arrest of Khalfaoui and others...
...also been linked to "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, an al-Qaeda operative convicted in the U.S. for his foiled plan to strike the Los Angeles airport in December 1999. Evidence and testimony indicate both actions were overseen from London by al-Qaeda's main European terror commander, Abu Doha, an Algerian Islamic extremist arrested in February 2001 trying to flee to Saudi Arabia. French investigators say Khalfaoui is also an associate of Rabah Kadre (a.k.a. Toufik), one of three North Africans arrested last month in London amid media reports that they were planning a gas attack in the Underground. Investigators...