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...attacking a U.S. or British warship passing through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. Using the meticulous planning for the Cole operation as their blueprint, they scouted for housing that could serve as a surveillance post overlooking refueling stations in Mellilia and in Ceuta, Spanish-controlled coastal enclaves in Morocco. The pair, sources tell TIME, also looked into purchasing a Zodiac, a motorized skiff that could be transformed into a torpedo operated by a suicide terrorist...
...Tora Bora. Like hundreds of other Bin Laden followers, they fled into Pakistan, where an Al Qaeda commander instructed them to disperse to countries where they could form sleeper cells without arousing suspicions. With their native Saudi Arabia on high alert for returning terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, Morocco was a natural choice for Al Tbaiti and Alissiri: Both had married Moroccan women. Al Tbaiti's young bride, as it turned out, had been killed in Tora Bora...
...Saudis, Moroccan sources tell TIME, were told to be ready for two missions, one to be carried out in Morocco, another in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis wasted little time in setting up their Moroccan cell. Al Tbaiti married another local girl, meaning that he and Alassiri could blend into Moroccan life by staying with in-laws in the teeming Rabat casbah rather than in hotels where they might have eventually attracted police attention. Frequenting mosques and masquerading as businessmen, the Saudis had Moroccan acquaintances provide phone cards and bank accounts for local communications and money transfers totaling thousands of dollars...
...while no specific targets are known, the Saudis were observed conducting surveillance that hinted at their intentions. Sources say that Moroccan officials feared that the terrorists had their sights on various U.S. diplomatic facilities, luxury hotels catering to Western tourists and synagogues serving the 4,000 remaining members of Morocco's 2,000-year-old Jewish community. Moroccan sources say that any plans to strike inside Morocco were probably aborted when instructions finally arrived to begin preparations for the attack on a warship. Al Tbaiti bowed out of that project, meanwhile, when new orders arrived for the Saudis to proceed...
...Moroccan members of al Qaeda and sent them to Guantanamo. Under interrogation, sources tell TIME, some of the Moroccans fingered a Saudi they knew only as Zuher. They said that he had recruited many of them to join Al Qaeda and believed that he had headed back to Morocco. An even better clue came when at least one of the detainees recalled the family name of the Moroccan wife who had perished in Tora Bora...