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TORONTO An Ontario official last week admitted that authorities discovered an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, thought to have been based around Toronto, some months ago. Its members have since left Ontario. Nabil al-Marabh, arrested in Chicago after Sept. 11, lived in Toronto, on and off, for six years...
Palestinian security officials tell TIME that hard-liners within Hamas promote the idea of breaking its tradition of targeting Israelis only and starting to hit Americans to show support for bin Laden and solidarity with Afghans. COINCIDENCE? Nabil Al-Marabh, the Boston cabdriver arrested in the post-Sept. 11 antiterror dragnet, is a subscriber of the Globe, a tabloid published from the Florida building exposed to anthrax. SMALL AND FLEET: Small airlines get more secure faster. Mesa Airlines, based in Phoenix, Ariz., was first to put trained guards on flights, while mini-carriers Frontier and JetBlue had reinforced cockpit doors...
...then Al-Marabh had probably already heard about the arrests of three men whom federal agents had found in his former Detroit home when they were looking for him. As with Al-Marabh, it is unclear whether Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, Karim Koubriti, 23, and Ahmed Hannan, 33, have any connection to the attacks. Yet two of them--Koubriti and Hannan--had worked for two months for LSG Sky Chefs, a catering company providing airplane meals at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The agents who arrested the three men uncovered several phony documents including a passport, a Social Security card...
...arrested Nabil Al-Marabh in Chicago. He was wanted for fleeing probation in Boston, where he stabbed a roommate. While in Michigan, he had obtained a license to transport hazardous materials. Agents believe he knew one of the hijackers and may have funneled money to fellow Boston cabby Raed Hijazi, a bin Laden associate on trial in Jordan for his role in the foiled Millennium attacks. The FBI also has questions for Mouldi Sayeh, a Boston hotel owner. Witnesses allege he may be a broker for bin Laden siblings there. A man arrested at New York City's JFK airport...
...Nabil Al-Marabh, a former Boston cabdriver arrested last week, was a friend of one of the hijackers, U.S. officials say. He also reportedly has ties to a Palestinian convicted in Jordan of planning to bomb millennium celebrations--allegedly an al-Qaeda-backed plot...