Word: haouari
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same time, mounting indications of bin Laden's reach are coming to light. In a New York court earlier this month, a U.S. prosecutor suggested that Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian citizen, was a bit player in a larger bin Laden plot. Not only were U.S. sites targeted to be bombed on Jan. 1, 2000, but there was a similar plot in Jordan and a planned attack against the U.S.S. The Sullivans while it was at port in Aden. "It is clear that the general guidance was given by al Qaeda network to pursue these three plots," says a U.S. counterterrorism...
...same time, mounting indications of bin Laden's reach are coming to light. In a New York court earlier this month, a U.S. prosecutor suggested that Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian citizen, was a bit player in a larger bin Laden plot. Not only were U.S. sites targeted to be bombed on Jan. 1, 2000, but there was a similar plot in Jordan and a planned attack against the U.S.S. The Sullivans while it was at port in Aden. "It is clear that the general guidance was given by al Qaeda network to pursue these three plots," says a U.S. counterterrorism...
...Brooklyn, N.Y. A snitch told the FBI that Meskini had said Ressam's instructions were to "take the explosive-laden vehicle to a parking lot and walk away from it," according to a federal complaint. And Ressam carried a phony credit card that led to Montreal shopkeeper Mokhtar Haouari, who, said a federal indictment, sent Meskini to Seattle in mid-December to help Ressam. After the bust at Port Angeles, Haouari allegedly called Meskini with instructions to destroy his pager and change his telephone numbers. Too late. The FBI concluded that Haouari was a logistics specialist and facilitator...
...good bet for finding the brains behind the bomb plot, investigators believe, may be a third man Canadian authorities were watching: Slahi. Born in Mauritania, he moved to Montreal last fall from Germany. U.S. officials found he had been in contact with Haouari. When his name was run through the databases, it turned out he was the brother-in-law of one of bin Laden's closest associates, a man cryptically known as "the Mauritanian." Washington experts say that man is a member of bin Laden's Shura, or advisory council, and there are indications that he may know something...
...moment, the Algerian Connection's tie to bin Laden amounts to the fact that "the Mauritanian" and Slahi and Haouari talked to one another a lot. "It doesn't mean they were operationally linked," says an official familiar with the case. "You gotta prove that." To do so, investigators will need better luck holding on to their suspects...
| 1 |