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...detained and questioned a number of Sept. 11 suspects, including Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian alleged to have helped train the suicide pilots in the attacks. And last week Yasser al-Siri, whose bookstore and website are well known in London, was charged with conspiracy to murder Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance. Massoud died after assassins bombed his headquarters on Sept...
...Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often criticized in Black's papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud. NAMED. WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR., 44, as CEO of Ford Motor Co.; in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford, chairman since 1999, is the first Ford family member to run the company in 22 years. He replaces...
...representative of the rebel force as a whole. But that picture is misleading. A zarbati, or strike unit, of some 1,200 uniformed, well-trained fighters is massed north of the capital. The best of the bunch, the Guards Brigade, was created by the late mujahedin commander Ahmed Shah Massoud--even in death the spiritual leader of the Northern Alliance--and comprises several infantry assault battalions backed up by Russian T-55 and T-62 tanks. The Guards have already moved into position northeast of Kabul for a possible raid on the city. Winter won't necessarily deter them: against...
...warning from bin Laden military chief Mohammed Atef that Aghans would drag slain U.S. troops through the streets, "like they were in Somalia." A letter of recommendation from al-Siri is alleged to have helped ease the way for two suicide bombers posing as journalists to see Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern League commander fatally wounded by them just two days before the World Trade Center attack...
...member of a Cologne-based extremist group. Five people arrested in separate investigations in Sarajevo Oct. 23, 2001 Yasser al-Siri, who runs the extremist Islamic Observation Center in London, is arrested. He is alleged to have provided references for two terrorists who assassinated Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud in early September