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...attacks? Most say it will be Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Moroccan arrested for immigration violations in Minnesota last August after he sought lessons in piloting a commercial jetliner. But U.S. prosecutors are targeting two other suspects for early indictments. One is Mustafa Ahmad, also known as Shaykh Saiid, an Egyptian believed to have served as paymaster and field commander for the Sept. 11 attacks. Investigators have traced $100,000 from a bank account in Dubai controlled by Ahmad to Mohamed Atta, suspected of orchestrating the attacks. The other is Ramzi Binalshibh, pictured here, a Yemeni who once lived in Hamburg...
...week's end, Washington appears to have heard the panic signals. "Powell Reassures Arabs No Iraq," read a headline in Friday's Jordan Times. "After a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher? (Secretary of State Colin) Powell said he understood and was taking into consideration Arab objections to US military action against Iraq. 'For now, this is nothing for us to disagree on,' Powell said." Still, even that "for now" qualifier has Arab leaders fearing a destabilizing domestic backlash...
...Islamiya that may have established links with Al Qaeda in the early 1990s. U.S. officials also cite allegations that some of the Somali fighters that killed 18 U.S. Army Rangers in Mogadishu in 1993 may have been trained by bin Laden lieutenant Mohammed Atef. Atef had been an Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader before becoming Al Qaeda's operational chief and allegedly helping mastermind the September 11 attacks. He was reportedly killed two weeks ago during a U.S. bombing raid in Afghanistan...
...Tajik rebels or face death. As Taliban soldiers squabbled over whether to negotiate or fight?the Arabs arguing for the latter?U.S. B-52s on Saturday pulverized them while Alliance commanders promised to attack. Alliance troops in Kunduz killed scores of non-Afghan Taliban fighters?the much-loathed Sudanese, Egyptian, Saudi and Chechen graduates of al-Qaeda's terrorist camps?and many more are now at the mercy of both their rebel conquerors and Taliban turncoats. Pakistani volunteers who made it to the border claimed their former comrades beat and fleeced them. Mahsud Khan, 25, told TIME that Taliban troops...
...intelligence also targeted the firm Al-Taqwa, based in Switzerland. Egyptian-born owner Youssef Nada denies bin Laden ties, but U.S. officials tell TIME that Al-Taqwa manages funds for al-Qaeda. As for Blessed Relief--a Saudi charity identified as a funder of al-Qaeda--U.S. officials reject claims by one of its founders that it has been dormant for five years. Sources say intelligence shows the charity financed movements of people, money and weapons in Bosnia as recently...