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...British white paper alleges that one hijacker--identified by the New York Times as Khalid Almihdhar of Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon--played "key roles" in both the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Almihdhar was one of the first hijackers to sign up for flight lessons in the U.S., in early...
...Laden is not the first to challenge the al Sauds' right to rule. Fanatical Ikhwan, once allies of the al Sauds, rebelled in 1929, objecting to foreign influences such as the introduction of radio broadcasts, forcing Ibn Saud to crush them with loyalist tribesmen. In 1979 King Khalid harshly put down a fanatical group that seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, in a violent two-week clash that left 127 Saudi troops and 117 insurgents dead. The message of all these groups has been the same: pure Islam has been corrupted by the al Saud rule...
...Algerian arrested in Britain in 1995 for his alleged role in the Paris Métro bombings of that year. And the U.S. currently wants five terrorism suspects in British custody, including Lotfi Raissi, who has been accused by prosecutors of training four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots. Khalid al-Fawwaz, wanted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Africa, faces his last appeal against extradition this month. "Britain has been too tolerant," argues Jorgen Nielsen, professor of Islamic Studies at Birmingham University. That may be so, but the question is whether...
...training in Minneapolis, Zacarias Moussaoui should have been a warning to feds. A suspected terrorist in his native France, he traveled to Afghanistan in the mid-'90s. The feds wonder if he was supposed to be on Flight 93. He has been flown to New York City for questioning. Khalid Al-Draibi was detained not far from Dulles airport the night of the attacks. He reportedly tried to rush training at flight schools in Alabama and Kansas...
...Khalid Al-Midhar, an alleged hijacker of American Flight 77, was filmed by the CIA at a January 2000 meeting of suspected terrorists in Kuala Lumpur--an event also attended by a man linked to the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, believed to be a bin Laden attack...