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...years ago. "I was watching his body language," says Atwan, "and he is in a joyful, very happy mood. He rarely smiles, but here you see him smiling all the time." Acolytes will also have reveled in the tape's recounting of dreams- no fewer than eight are mentioned. Jacquard says fundamentalists "believe that dreams are inspired by the Prophet, and that the subconscious is the state through which Allah instructs the faithful." To dream of the Sept. 11 attacks, says Jacquard, would suggest that they were "inspired by God, and therefore a legitimate, even holy...
...Middle East security scholar at London's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies, says, "It was not the first time there has been a private video of bin Laden. They record these sort of things." Possibly it was intended for a small audience of true believers. Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on terrorism, thinks the footage might have been intended for later editing into a propaganda tape; many such tapes are collector's items in the world of terrorist sympathizers...
...Dahdah cell under surveillance for at least four years. Yarkas took control of a radical group called the Soldiers of Allah in October 1995 when its former leader, Palestinian-born Anwar Saleh, known as Sheik Salah, suddenly left Madrid for Peshawar, Pakistan. There, according to French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, Salah became a key talent scout for al-Qaeda, sending the most promising recruits on to a training camp near Jalalabad. Garzón alleges that Yarkas and his co-conspirators were on the move constantly to send recruits and, when possible, money to support al-Qaeda. Some...
...born cleric whose fundamentalist sermons appear to have been a must-do item for al-Qaeda activists passing through London. Yarkas is alleged to have visited Qatada on at least one of his estimated 20 trips to London since 1996, and to have transferred money to him as well. Jacquard calls Qatada "the one person who invariably has had contact with everyone and anyone of stature in the radical Islamist world...
...results of the boot camps are die-hard but undetectable soldiers of the movement. "The Takfir," says Jacquard, "are the hard core of the hard core: they are the ones who will be called upon to organize and execute the really big attacks." French officials think that Takfiri beliefs have bred a distinct form of terrorism. "The goal of Takfir," says one, "is to blend into corrupt societies in order to plot attacks against them better. Members live together, will drink alcohol, eat during Ramadan, become smart dressers and ladies' men to show just how integrated they...