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...severe information against Mzoudi." Others are less excited. "As far as the intelligence community is concerned, this new witness is absolutely not credible," says one high-ranking German intelligence official. "After questioning him, it's clear to us that nothing he says is believable." Mzoudi, a 31-year-old Moroccan, is only the second person to be tried...
...chief of logistics, in the southwestern village of Lons. All four were placed under formal investigation on suspicion of having links with a terrorist organization. Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said ETA had been "decapitated" - a claim officials have made before. Surprise Setback GERMANY A Hamburg court unexpectedly released Moroccan 9/11 suspect Abdelghani Mzoudi from custody, after receiving new evidence the judge said might exonerate him of charges of belonging to the Hamburg-based al-Qaeda cell responsible for the attacks. Lawyers for fellow Moroccan Mounir el-Motassadeq, who was jailed on identical charges in February - and is the only...
...dwarfs the 15,360 jobs offered to non-E.U. computer experts since Germany launched its "green card" system in 2000 - a program designed to help companies fill vacant high-tech jobs with skilled labor from overseas. Countries are beginning to collaborate to regulate the flow. The Spanish and Moroccan governments announced last week that they would launch joint marine patrols to head off illegal immigration. The E.U. has begun negotiations with 11 countries to give them a guaranteed legal immigrant quota in exchange for more cooperation in stopping illegals. So far, Albania, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Macao have...
...Qaeda's propaganda purposes to make people believe it is behind every outrage--even if like-minded groups are acting on their own. Investigators suspect bin Laden's outfit had a direct hand in the May bombings in Saudi Arabia and the August suicide assault in Indonesia. But Moroccan and French security officials say the synchronized bombings in Morocco in May were primarily a free-lance affair: the hastily prepared work of 14 raw young extremists from a Casablanca slum were plucked out of nowhere by local militants who had embraced the al-Qaeda ideology and got direction from Afghan...
...Algerian called Abderrazak Mahdjoub, who was arrested by German police on suspicion of recruiting Islamic militants to join the jihad in Iraq. Lawyers for Mahdjoub, 29, were unavailable for comment. Italian authorities said warrants had been issued for five of his associates, and that three - two Tunisians and a Moroccan - had been nabbed in Milan. In Britain, police in Gloucester arrested Sajid Badat, a Briton of Pakistani origin whom unconfirmed reports linked to shoe bomber Richard Reid, serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a plane in 2001. Authorities believe Badat, 24, was connected to "the network...