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Saad's principal value now is the fact that he's a bin Laden and willing to follow his father's footsteps. If Osama dies, Saad is the symbol that the "struggle lives on," says French counter-terror expert Roland Jacquard. "If bin Laden lives, Saad remains symbolic of the generation of young mujehadin ready to step into the battle." The CIA agrees, which is why the agency is eagerly hunting for him. "Just as there's some symbolism to him being there to run the organization," says a senior U.S. intelligence official, "there's also some symbolism in picking...
...Zawahiri, a reference that suggests al-Zawahiri too was alive at the time. Other material found in the Faisalabad hideaway of Abu Zubaydah, whom U.S. officials are interrogating at an undisclosed location, is also proving rich. "Abu Zubaydah's papers are saying more than he is," says Roland Jacquard, a terrorism expert close to the office of the French President. Among the documents are plans for attacks on tankers and cruise ships, says Jacquard, as well as evidence that bin Laden's son Saad was also in Faisalabad, though he evaded capture. As for the elder bin Laden, even...
Other material found in the Faisalabad hideaway of Abu Zubaydah, whom U.S. officials are interrogating at an undisclosed location, is also proving rich. "Abu Zubaydah's papers are saying more than he is," says Roland Jacquard, a terrorism expert close to the office of the French President. Among the documents are plans for attacks on tankers and cruise ships, says Jacquard, as well as evidence that bin Laden's son Saad was also in Faisalabad, though he evaded capture. As for the elder bin Laden, even if he is still alive, evidence of his failing health is mounting. Intelligence experts...
...close to Ramzi Yousef, a Pakistani now serving life plus 240 years for directing the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Some sources believe that Mohammed, whose family is from Pakistan, is an uncle of Yousef, though in the Arab world uncle can be a flexible term. Roland Jacquard, a French expert on Islamic terrorism, says Mohammed first came to the attention of American investigators as they searched for Yousef after the 1993 bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain...
Mohammed, says Jacquard, is a graduate of the Abu Khabab terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, which stressed "special operations"--such as attacks with chemical and biological weapons. Reports last week suggested that Mohammed provides the missing link between the World Trade Center attacks of Yousef and bin Laden...