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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...
...bombing suggests that even if the U.S. managed to round up any of the accused, the resulting trial would be about as satisfying to the victims' loved ones as the Lockerbie trial was to the families of those killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103. Two Libyan intelligence agents were tried for that crime, but nobody doubted that the real author - there are not too many individuals in Libya with the authority to order an outrage of such profound international consequences - was never in court...