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...Operation Anfal, which included a 1988 gas attack on Halabja that killed 5,000 Kurdish civilians. Khazraji, a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, said Iraqi secret police had made up the claims to stop him from organizing a dissident movement. KUWAIT In the Firing Line A Kuwaiti policeman, Khalid Messier al-Shimmari, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for shooting and seriously wounding two U.S. soldiers near Kuwait City. The attack followed the killing of another American soldier in October. Kuwait hosts 10,000 U.S. troops and the emirate is expected to be one of the launch pads for any invasion...
...officials confirm that there is an ongoing investigation into whether Omar Al Bayoumi, a Saudi who befriended two 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Al Hazmi and Khalid Al Midhar, when all three were living in San Diego, funneled money or other support to them. The investigation has concluded that Bayoumi, now in England, had no idea the pair were Al Qaeda terrorists and aided them only out of hospitality. But the FBI is still trying to sort out his sources of funds, some of which, other officials now tell TIME, came through third parties with links to the Saudi Royal family...
...Ramadan." While they try to anticipate the next attack, security forces are sifting through previous ones for clues. Last Tuesday French investigators resumed interrogation of six family members of the Djerba suicide bomber Nizar Naouar, whose last phone call before his death was to suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The satellite phone he used was purchased in Paris by his supposedly impoverished 22-year-old brother, Wahid, for [EURO] 1,900. The cost, and the complicated manner in which the phone was sent to Tunisia, suggest the backing of an organized group. But even if officials unearth...
...Yemen as a sign that al-Qaeda sleeper cells have been activated. Kandari and Hajiri would certainly not be the first known al-Qaeda operatives to hail from Kuwait. The group's oft-videotaped spokesman is a militant Kuwaiti preacher named Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. And a Kuwait-born Palestinian, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, is believed to have played a central role in planning the September 11 attacks...
...before Sept.11 released a scathing staff report last week accusing the CIA of not devoting enough resources to uncovering Osama bin Laden's plots against the U.S. One FBI agent testified that he warned headquarters just 13 days before the attacks that because he was denied permission to pursue Khalid Almihdhar, above, who later turned out to be one of the 19 hijackers, "someday, someone will die." President Bush announced he would now support a blue-ribbon commission to investigate what went wrong. The CIA denies it was aslei*Aep, but since last Sept. 11, its Counter-Terrorism Center...