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...Reid had friends there. Roland Jacquard, a French expert on terrorism, says his sources tell him the former head of the Khalden camp, now detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has identified Reid as a former student. Ahmed Ressam, who was convicted in the U.S. in 2001 for his part in the "millennium" plot to blow up the Los Angeles airport and who is now singing to the feds, is a Khalden graduate and is prepared to testify that he saw Moussaoui there in 1998. The camp seems to have specialized in welcoming recruits earmarked for operations in Europe and North...
...Authorities have also found Reid's e-mails, including one from Pakistan urging Reid to try again after a failed attempt to board the same flight one day earlier. French police think Reid, who flew penniless, must have left cash and belongings behind with an associate. Terror expert Roland Jacquard says locating Reid's Paris hosts is crucial because a suicide bomber's last contact is often with a spiritual adviser. "If you find [the adviser], the network falls," says Jacquard. "If you don't, he'll send another Reid on another mission...
French terror expert Roland Jacquard says the apparent fanaticism beneath Cherifi's well-adjusted exterior is characteristic of Europe's current generation of Islamist operatives. "Recruiters dig through what you or I may consider success, achievement or promise to find that ember of racial, social or religious anger and resentment," Jacquard says. In cases like Cherifi's, he adds, that ember is often a lingering fury at the racial and economic prejudices that French Arabs and their families feel they suffer in French society. Ironically, that anger can be fanned into flame by their own success in climbing...
These men are not the petty criminals and social misfits recruited by Algerian radicals in the mid-1990s, though. "Today's al-Qaeda networks use smart, educated, respectable men for logistics and support work," says Jacquard. "Not only are they less likely to arouse suspicion and get caught, but their longevity and experience are invaluable assets to the cells they assist in planning terror...
...Victory justifies a lot, but experts on al-Qaeda warn that winning the war will not eliminate the organization. For Jacquard, a central significance of the tape was the overt support offered to al-Qaeda by a network of radical and militant Saudi clergy; bin Laden and al-Ghamdi mention four other clerics approvingly. "That kind of sympathy with Islamic militancy and rationalization of terror," says Jacquard, "has become common in Saudi Arabia and the gulf states." Ranstorp thinks the poem bin Laden recited- "Our homes are flooded with blood...we will not stop our raids/Until you free our lands...