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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Suspects | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Suspects | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Praise for Perpetrators | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

Police believe another attraction of Hamburg was the relative absence of activity by Islamic radicals. "In a city like Cologne or Frankfurt, where there is a big Islamic scene, there was a danger the terrorists could come to the attention of state agencies while attending a mosque or Islamic meetings," said a police official. The run-down al-Quds mosque, where the terrorists worshiped, didn?t set off any alarm bells, although Bahaji had come under surveillance briefly in 1998. A Hamburg-based Syrian entrepreneur, Mamoun Darkanzli, who had ties to a bin Laden money man, also attended the mosque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Praise for Perpetrators | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

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