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...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...
...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...
...CHARGED. ANDREW FASTOW, 40, former Enron chief financial officer, with conspiring to inflate profits and enrich himself at the company's expense; after surrendering to police in Houston. Fastow, considered the mastermind behind the financial schemes that brought about Enron's collapse, was released after his family posted bail of $5 million...
...Furkan to oversee a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Malaysia. Al-Faruq said Ba'asyir was also behind a 1999 bombing of Jakarta's largest mosque and then blamed Christians for the act. Ba'asyir is wanted by Singapore for his alleged role as the mastermind of last December's foiled al-Qaeda plot to bomb U.S. targets there. Indonesian officials have so far declined to arrest him, saying they have no evidence linking him to terrorist activity...
...Acting as an al-Qaeda operative, al-Faruq, the CIA report says, was "the mastermind behind all the Christmas 2000 bombings in Indonesia"--a wave of attacks on Christian churches--which killed 18 and injured more than 100. Earlier that year, al-Faruq "cased the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to develop a plan to destroy the embassy with a large car bomb." He abandoned the plan when the U.S. hardened the building's security after a separate, credible threat in October...