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...Dandani had fought against U.S. forces inside Afghanistan until the fall of the Taliban. He was close to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani took over the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured in separate incidents, say U.S. officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Seeks Canadian Operatives | 7/8/2003 | See Source »

...government maintains that it has not used physical torture in its interrogation of alleged 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. So why would the al-Qaeda operative give up his colleague Iyman Faris to the feds? Because, experts say, eventually everybody cracks. The only variables are how long someone holds out and what pushes him over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Custody: Why They Crack | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...terrorist links fully explored." German officials knew that the suicide bomber responsible for the April 11, 2002, explosion at a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia--which killed 21 people--called Ganczarski shortly before launching his attack. They also knew that the Tunisian terrorist called al-Qaeda's operations chief, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is now in U.S. custody, around the same time. (Ganczarski denies involvement in the plot.) The phone connection was not enough to prosecute him under German laws. French laws, on the other hand, provide for a looser definition of complicity in terrorism, allowing investigating magistrates to jail Ganczarski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Reason To Still Love The French | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...decision is probably several weeks away, and court observers say the conservative panel could go either way--he'll keep pressing. Sources familiar with the defense tell TIME that Moussaoui also wants to question at least two other al-Qaeda members in U.S. custody; one is likely to be Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, thought to be the mastermind of 9/11. It's a safe bet that rather than allow that, the government would take the case out of civilian courts and transfer it to a military tribunal. Air Force Colonel Will Gunn, the acting chief defense counsel for the tribunals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moussaoui Case: Nothing Comes Easy | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...raid houses and take any money they can find," says Abufawaz Khazal, a former government scientist. "It's clear that [U.S. soldiers] are working with the local black marketeers," says a businessman in Baghdad. "They take guns from people on the streets and pass them to their fences." Sheik Khalid Alefan, cousin of Sheik Barakat Alefan, says that a young American soldier recently took his satellite phone and spent half an hour making calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Occupational Hazards | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

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