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...Green neighborhood finds itself at the nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda's numbers are swelling," says independent French terror expert Roland Jacquard. "Each raid that involves the arrest of several known operatives also turns up names and pseudonyms of people investigators never heard of. These names, which have neither faces nor backgrounds, number in the hundreds now." Just how the suspects came to be apprehended last week has not been revealed...
...maintain, the operatives looked to another man, Rabah Kadre, for their orders. But Kadre himself was arrested last November, along with two other North Africans, amid reports - officially denied - that they were preparing a chemical attack on the London Underground. Who is commanding the European cells now? According to Jacquard, French intelligence officials say Kadre shared responsibilities in Europe with Abu Mossab al-Sarkaoui, a higher-level al-Qaeda official who left Afghanistan before 9/11, around the same time as Abu Atiyya. Intelligence sources believe al-Sarkaoui is responsible for directing the operatives, including kamikaze sleepers that Abu Atiyya sent...
...Europe as a safe haven for planning attacks against U.S. interests elsewhere in the world, as Atta's Hamburg cell did. But most investigators know they can't be complacent, especially because there are so many other indications of heightened al-Qaeda activity. French independent terror expert Roland Jacquard says he has seen recent intelligence reports suggesting that "networks previously thought to be struggling are at the very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France...
...book, The Secret Archives of Al-Qaeda, French terror expert Roland Jacquard says bin Laden lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri made clandestine visits to Europe in 1996-97 to help the SGPC and other groups organize al-Qaeda-associated cells and prepare attacks. Jacquard believes additional cells have been set up as jihadists fled post-Taliban Afghanistan for Europe, where some are citizens or legal residents. Funds raised by the new cells are either funneled directly into network activity or collected from around Europe by couriers for pooling and redistributing from London - which investigators call the headquarters for Islamist terrorism...
...their home territories, these terrorists could well launch new attacks on American interests--one reason Tenet has warned that U.S. military installations are at risk not just in obvious places like Pakistan and Afghanistan but also in East Africa, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and beyond. Back home, says Roland Jacquard, a French terrorism analyst, the graduates of the camps "won't be plotting attacks in the heart of America, but they now feel they can attack America in their own backyards." Most terrorist acts in 2002--the bombings of a mosque in Tunisia, of a bus full of French contract...