Word: libyans
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Perhaps you've heard that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, ex-Mr. Terror himself, is supporting President Bush's war on Osama bin Laden. In an e-mail interview with TIME, the Libyan leader's ambitious son, Seif al Islam (Sword of Islam), or just Seif to his friends, elaborates: "The kind of terrorism that Libya was accused of is different from today's terrorism." How's that? Seif, 29, an architect with a business degree who heads a charitable foundation, maintains that his father supported freedom fighters, like Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat, now given "red-carpet" treatment...
Essid Sami Ben Khemais, 33 Tunisian Status: Arrested in Milan, April 3. Thought to be head of al-Qaeda cell in Milan and behind the foiled attacks on U.S. targets in Italy. Investigators taped a series of conversations between Khemais and Libyan Lased Ben Heni, suspected liaison between Milan and Frankfurt cells...
Abdel Hamid Shaari, president of the institute and meeting place, motions with his head toward the trio - one with a long dark beard, the other two without - huddled in conversation. "Look at those three," said Shaari, an affable Libyan-born architect. "They might be talking about their families or last night?s soccer match or bin Laden. How should I know their discussion...
...start of the air war, CIA-operated Predator drones, armed with Hellfire missiles, have been flying over Afghanistan to try to pick off bin Laden or Taliban leaders. Restrictions on recruiting unsavory informants have been loosened. CIA officers have met privately with old foes in the Syrian and Libyan intelligence services to see if they can provide clues to al Qaeda hideouts. Agency operatives have even been trying to penetrate the Russian mafia for leads on chemical or biological agents bin Laden may have been trying to buy from...
Most recently, he has agreed to serve as an ‘objective expert’ for the legal team handling the appeal of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of bombing Pan Am flight...