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...Sept. 11 attacks. "He was involved in every aspect--concocting the scheme, training, financing," says a U.S. official. Mohammed has been fingered by Abu Zubaydah, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden now in U.S. custody at a secret location, and by some al-Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Officials are still not sure of Mohammed's precise role in the hijackings--"Calling him the mastermind goes further than we would go," says one. But the gumshoes would love to get their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face Behind 9/11 | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...Alissiri, 31, from Najran, and Abdullah Al Ghamdi, 21, from Gueddana, was not simply a lucky break. The Moroccan agents ambushed the trio after tailing them for more than a month, the result of a tip from the CIA based on U.S. interrogations of al Qaeda members detained in Guantanamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside an al-Qaeda Bust | 6/15/2002 | See Source »

...Moroccan officials trace the discovery of the Rabat cell directly to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. Sources say that U.S. and British forces captured 17 Moroccan members of al Qaeda and sent them to Guantanamo. Under interrogation, sources tell TIME, some of the Moroccans fingered a Saudi they knew only as Zuher. They said that he had recruited many of them to join Al Qaeda and believed that he had headed back to Morocco. An even better clue came when at least one of the detainees recalled the family name of the Moroccan wife who had perished in Tora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside an al-Qaeda Bust | 6/15/2002 | See Source »

...addition, Gonzales has been a major proponent of Bush’s anti-terrorism agenda. He has staunchly defended the use of military tribunals, as opposed to civilian courts, to try people suspected of terrorist activity. He authored legal arguments to exclude al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees in Guantanamo Bay from prisoner-of-war status...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Once a Judge, Now Bush’s Legal Guide | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

...Zubaydah's statements jibed with claims made by other detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that landmarks may be struck during holidays--a strategy also endorsed by al-Qaeda training videos. Meanwhile, agents had noticed an increase in terrorist "chatter" picked up by telecommunications surveillance in recent months. "We couldn't just blow it off," says the senior intelligence official--especially given the firestorm over whether agencies could have done more to prevent 9/11. "How many times did someone get in trouble for issuing a warning that didn't happen?" a U.S. counterterrorism official asks rhetorically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding The Chatter | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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