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...cell - with a series of arrests in both countries first in April and then in October - represents the way things are supposed to work. There have been other successful international busts in Europe: when police used a French tip and moved in on the so-called Meliani cell in Frankfurt last Dec. 26, they arrested two Iraqis, an Algerian and a French Muslim, but they didn?t get "Meliani" himself - Algerian Mohammed Bensakhria. The Spanish police did, acting on German information, on June 22, by which time the formerly sleek 40-year-old had grown a scruffy beard and melded...
Mohammed Bensakhria, 40 Algerian Status: Arrested in Alicante, Spain, June 22; extradited to France in July. Believed to be head of a Frankfurt cell and a key player in organizing bin Laden terrorist groups in Europe. Fled Frankfurt after police foiled a plot to attack a Strasbourg market in December...
...Sami Ben Khemais, 33 Tunisian Status: Arrested in Milan, April 3. Thought to be head of al-Qaeda cell in Milan and behind the foiled attacks on U.S. targets in Italy. Investigators taped a series of conversations between Khemais and Libyan Lased Ben Heni, suspected liaison between Milan and Frankfurt cells...
...pilots of three suicide flights all came from Hamburg. That German city on the North Sea, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said last week, served as a "central base of operations." What was it about Hamburg that made it more attractive as a base than, say, Frankfurt, London or even Cairo...
...idea what to expect when we landed. I assumed we would be sent back to Frankfurt, and was planning to head for Lithuania, where friends could help me cross the border. Instead, there was an unusual absence of lines at the airport - the only people trying to get into Moscow during the coup were journalists. I flagged down a car to get into the city, and we quickly passed the first sign of the military takeover: an armored personnel carrier by the roadside. It had broken down. "Morons," the driver snarled as we drove past the soldiers. I began...