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...battle raged, Bush Administration officials played down expectations. Officials said U.S. intelligence could not confirm reports of al-Zawahiri's whereabouts. But the possibility that he might be cornered sent pulses racing. Since the late '90s, the Egyptian has served as bin Laden's chief tactician, personal doctor and spiritual guide. His elimination would mean the al-Qaeda command structure that plotted the 9/11 attacks would be almost completely wiped...
...President's insistence that, even as chaos mounted in Iraq and the world reverberated from the shock of the commuter-train bombings in Madrid, the U.S. is winning the war on terrorism. With Bush's election campaign picking up speed, the stakes for finding al-Zawahiri and bin Laden have never been higher, especially now that terrorist forces seem to have developed a keen eye for political calendars. The Islamists charged with slaughtering more than 200 Madrid commuters struck on March 11. Three days later Spanish voters tossed out the ruling party allied with...
...destruction gave fresh evidence of how the Islamist terrorist threat has managed to survive the global war waged against it. New networks of jihadists emerge faster than the U.S. and its allies can arrest or kill them. Counterterrorism experts believe that the old al-Qaeda organization commanded by bin Laden may be expiring and that a new, more elusive generation of extremists apparently inspired by al-Qaeda's ruthless vision--men like Jamal Zougam, 30, a cell-phone salesman arrested for the Madrid bombings, and Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, 37, the Jordanian suspected of orchestrating violence in Iraq--has taken...
...after French officials found a number of their suspects crossing paths with him. They asked Spanish law enforcement to search Zougam's Madrid apartment, where he lived with his mother, who had taken him from Tangiers when he was 10, and two sisters. Inside police found videotapes on bin Laden and jihad and the telephone numbers of three members of the Soldiers of Allah cell run by Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah. In November 2001 Spanish authorities jailed Yarkas, believed to be the leader of al-Qaeda's cells in Spain, for allegedly helping...
...fighters coming across the border," says Kimmitt. He thinks there are a "couple of hundred" extremists doing the dirty work, including a few al-Qaeda elements, remnants of Ansar al-Islam that were dispersed from their headquarters in the Kurdish north during the war, Sunni extremists who share bin Laden's radical brand of Islam and a trickle of individual volunteer jihadis...