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...only did the cell actively recruit members to al-Qaeda, arrange their transport to Afghanistan training camps and provide illicit funding to the terrorist outfit, Garzón claims. But unlike its counterparts in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan and Sarajevo, the Madrid cell also "may have been directly involved in the preparation and implementation" of the U.S. attacks...
...probe centers on the cell?s alleged leader, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian-born family man known to his comrades as Abu Dahdah. He lived with his Spanish wife, a Muslim convert, and their four children in a leafy middle-class neighborhood on the southern fringe of Madrid...
...maybe not. A Spanish investigator said when Yarkas was picked up earlier this month, "his whole aspect changed once he was confronted with what we knew." He says the investigation and interrogation have revealed Yarkas to be "an intelligent, fanatic and cold" leader who brooked no opposition in the Madrid cell...
...evidence linking Yarkas to the Sept. 11 attacks is intriguing but thin. German investigators searching the Hamburg apartment once occupied by Atta found Yarkas? former Madrid telephone number in a notebook belonging to the fugitive Said Bahaji. Yarkas reportedly told his interrogators that Islam is a "social religion" in which contacts are regularly passed around, and that he had no idea how his number had reached the Hamburg cell...
...August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In 1999, Spanish police intercepted a van with more than a ton of explosives. Last week a captured Basque separatist said the target had been Madrid's 48-story Picasso Towers, designed by the World Trade Center architect...