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...accused of "knowingly supporting the terrorist organization with logistical measures." In Belgium, an Algerian man was arrested for passport forgery. He and two men being held in France may have been part of a ring suspected of supplying false papers to the assassins of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. And in Italy, police took two alleged al-Qaeda recruiters into custody...
After 22 years of war, there is little that can make a grown Afghan cry. But mention Ahmed Shah Massoud and the most battle-hardened Northern Alliance mujahedin will tell you he wept on Sept. 9, the day two al-Qaeda agents posing as journalists assassinated the rebel leader in a suicide bomb attack. In death, Massoud has become even more iconic than in life. His picture hangs in shop windows across the northern Afghan capital of Mazar-i-Sharif and is pasted in the windshields of Alliance pickups and jeeps. Along every street those calm, hooded eyes gaze...
...unifying force in this maelstrom of violence and mistrust is the memory of Massoud. For all anti-Taliban Afghans, the latest chapter in their bloody history began not on Sept. 11, but two days earlier. Everything that has happened since is seen as guided by his ghostly hand. "As soon as Massoud was martyred, the attacks happened in America and Pakistan withdrew its support from the Taliban," says Abdul Saboor, 35, a fighter pilot who carries a case of Massoud memorabilia with him. "The innocence of his unjust death spread across the world and started the defeat of the Taliban...
...meters Bronze Age statues from around 2000 B.C. and a bank of computer terminals with access to websites featuring breaking news on Afghanistan. Events have overtaken the exhibition: a map of Afghanistan shows roughly 10% of the land held by the Northern Alliance under Ahmed Shah Massoud. He's now dead, and his soldiers, thanks to intense bombardment by the U.S., now dominate almost the whole country...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Key arrests include Lotfi Raissi, who allegedly helped teach the hijackers how to fly; Kamel Daoudi, a computer whiz suspected in the Paris plot; and Yasser al-Siri, who was charged in connection with the assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud...