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...1990s, some of the Algerians found sanctuary in Britain. The Algerian hard men recruited and turned to crime, making money from identity theft and document forgery. "North Africans, but particularly Algerians, have been the most active component of the al-Qaeda network in Europe," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorist expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University. Ranstorp says European intelligence and security services held an unprecedented meeting in the spring of 2001 in Algiers to discuss "what to do about the Algerian dimension." Now, at last, they have swung into action...
...everybody on edge," says Sonia Merzoug, a convert to Islam who has lived near the apartment - where one of the suspects was arrested - for the past seven years. "This is a bit too close to home for my liking." "The baseline anxiety level has been rising since 9/11," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University. Terrorists, he notes, are "looking for low-tech ways of making maximum mayhem." Substances like ricin - what Ranstorp calls "weapons of mass disruption" - fit the bill. As with the post-Sept. 11 anthrax attacks in the U.S., a small number...
...inspired by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, do not require contact with one another, or a central authority, to act as al-Qaeda would want them to. "Bin Laden unleashed forces accumulating for many years, and all the gloves are off now. Centralized clearance is not needed," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland...
...Since last September, nearly 3,000 people suspected of involvement in al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups have been arrested. European governments--some of which were aggressively dismissive of the terrorist threat a year ago--are now actively involved in the crackdown. They've done a "fantastic job," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism analyst at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, "unearthing cells, sharing intelligence, doing pre-emptive arrests and raids." An American diplomat in Europe adds that law-enforcement authorities in Southeast Asia are cooperating with the U.S. far more than before. "The effort worldwide and in Afghanistan...
...sailboat-rental agencies report a jump in business from European and Latin American executives. Many of their sailing schools at home have adopted U.S. certification standards, and they can use that "passport" in Yankee waters. Castle Harbor has contracted with U.S. Olympic sailing gold medalist Magnus Liljedahl to teach corporate groups, who hope that learning mainsheets might help improve their balance sheets. So who said sailing was supposed to be relaxing...