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...Intelligence sources have also told TIME that other evidence suggests that Atta and several others in the group met with senior Al Qaida leaders, most notably Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader is believed to be Bin Laden's deputy, and the top operational commander of Al Qaida's networks...
...operations manual recommends that terrorists adopt the dress and manner of their host country, as most of the 19 hijackers did. And his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, is said to have the operational experience to plot something of the scale of Sept. 11. Al-Zawahri leads the Egyptian al-Jihad, the group responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981; a federal court in New York indicted al-Zawahri in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings...
...authority to monitor secretly persons suspected of espionage or terrorism without having to show probable cause that the suspect has committed a crime. Immigrant suspects can be tried without being informed of the charges or the evidence against them. Thus the INS was able to detain Nasser Ahmed, an Egyptian in New York City, for more than three years without letting him know the charges against him. In 1999 a judge finally compelled the government to concede that Ahmed wasn't a terrorist...
...Mohamed Atta, the suspected leader of the attack and a hijacker on American Flight 11, may have belonged to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad--a group connected to bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization--according...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak understands the dangers of inflaming Muslim extremists. It will be 20 years ago next week that Egyptian militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat. The leader of the group responsible is an ally of Osama bin Laden. Mubarak has no desire to play so open a role in the upcoming war as to anger extremists, but he can probably contain any problem. Egyptian security forces have kept a reasonably good choke hold on domestic terrorists. And U.S. aid, flowing since the days of the Camp David accords, ensures continued ties with Washington. Cairo will probably support anything that...