Word: masterminding
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...reminding us that with all the world's attention focused on Iraq, al-Qaeda is still alive and well." And he may have wanted to not only reassert control over his organization but also dominate extremist movements flourishing elsewhere. By highlighting incidents that his organization probably did not mastermind, like the Chechen assault on the Moscow theater, "he's implying that those actions are a part of a campaign over which he presides," says Jenkins...
...that the U.S. could monitor. But the balls only stayed in the air a few days. Last week word leaked out that the captive was Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a thirtyish Saudi and a senior al-Qaeda lieutenant with a taste for naval terrorism. He is suspected of masterminding the seagoing attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 and at least two other, abortive plots against Western ships. FBI agents also believe he trained the suicide bombers who carried out the 1998 East African embassy bombings. Al-Nashiri may not be a household name, but he's a good...
...fear is very concrete that we must reckon with a further attack ... of perhaps great dimension." Hans-Josef Beth, who heads the international counterterrorism unit of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, fingered Abu Musab Zarqawi, a one-legged terrorist with known al-Qaeda connections, as the probable mastermind of possible chemical attacks on European targets. Zarqawi has ordered trained operatives into Europe, Beth said at a meeting in Berlin. "Something big is in the air," Beth warned. The French, too, were alarmed. "We're absolutely scrambling here," said a top French terrorist judge. "Every light in every service in France...
...main prey was a man called Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi. Known as Abu Ali, he was, according to Yemeni officials, a former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden's and the local mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor in October 2000. When an American Predator drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen...
...very concrete that we must reckon with a further attack ... of perhaps great dimension." Hans-Josef Beth, who heads the international counterterrorism unit of the foreign intelligence agency, was even more specific, fingering Abu Musab Zarqawi, a one-legged terrorist with known al-Qaeda connections, as the likely mastermind of chemical attacks on European targets. Zarqawi has ordered trained operatives into Europe, Beth told a meeting of the German-Atlantic Society in Berlin: "He has experience with poisonous chemicals and biological weapons ... and has become highly active. Something big is in the air." Such apprehensions are shared by Milan...