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...Germany in 2000 to thwart a planned attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market by a Frankfurt-based cell. "And that was only after we'd provided clear, irrefutable proof France was being targeted for attack. It's really frustrating dealing with them." Manfred Murck, deputy director of the Hamburg office of the BfV, defends the federal system's advantages. It enhances local intelligence gathering, he argues; the real problem is timely analysis and dissemination. Everyone agrees on the need for improvement, but some think a little tinkering will do. Not Schily. In the war against terrorism, he says...
...stopping the Sept. 11 attacks. But at the same time, Germany has quietly been doing some soul searching of its own. In the late 1990s, a surveillance action dubbed Operation Tenderness, carried out by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), came close to uncovering the Hamburg cell that harbored several of the 9/11 plotters. But German intelligence officials, like their American counterparts, were unable to connect the dots. Now the German government is finally debating whether it can effectively fight terrorism without a radical overhaul of its cherished federalist system. "It must be a cause...
...Olmo believes Fakhet, the man on the tape, was the "dynamizing element" of the Spanish cell. Although most of those involved in the 3/11 bombings were Moroccan, he was Tunisian - hence his nickname "El Tunecino." His biography has striking parallels to that of Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Hamburg 9/11 cell. After growing up in a middle-class family in Tunis, Fakhet moved to Madrid in 1994, armed with €29,500 in Spanish-government scholarships to study economics. "At first he was gracious and engaging," says Miguel Pérez Martín, a professor at the Autonomous...
...March 30 and April 1 with terror offenses; those six remain in prison. They are mostly of Pakistani origin, and prosecutors will be asking them to explain the 600 kg of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, commonly used as an explosive, found in a self-storage unit in west London. A Hamburg court last week allowed Mounir el-Motassadeq, a Moroccan friend of Mohamed Atta, to leave prison on his own recognizance pending a new trial. The court threw out his February 2003 conviction on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization and accessory to more than 3,000 counts of murder...
...near all-time lows in opinion polls. And while Britain 's Labour government seems safe for the moment, despite voter disaffection with Tony Blair, support for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party is ebbing away; last month it lost a key election in Hamburg . One of the few countries where the left is enjoying a minor resurgence is Austria . Out of power since late 1999, the Socialists won a provincial election in Salzburg this month. But that success was overshadowed by the victory in neighboring Carinthia of Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom Party...