Word: moussaoui
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...names of those few who remain suspicious are well known. They are the ones who aren't talking. Zacarias Moussaoui, for example, was arrested in August on immigration charges after he expressed interest in learning how to maneuver but not land planes. It turns out that French officials have long believed Moussaoui was connected to terrorist groups. The FBI would also like more information from Ayub Khan and Mohammed Azmath, who were arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 12 with hair dye and thousands of dollars in cash in their possession. They had taken a train from St. Louis...
...United Services Institute for Defence Studies, is convinced that the U.K. has never played host to a formal al-Qaeda network - a judgment privately shared by the FBI. But London is clearly a center of coordination and direction. It appears well-established that suspected al-Qaeda operatives like Zacarias Moussaoui (detained in New York) and Djamel Beghal (detained in Paris) have imbibed the heady hatred of Sheik Abu Qatada, the Palestinian-born cleric who preaches in London and whose bank account has been frozen after appearing on a U.S. Treasury list of terrorist suspects. And like many others, Moussaoui...
...Children of immigrants, Muslims in Europe, highly skilled, Daoudi and Moussaoui epitomize the kind of person investigators now think provides some of al-Qaeda's key recruits. Above all, both men were true global citizens; Moussaoui, a child of the warm south, ended up in the state where ice fishing is a favorite sport. As they dig deeper, law-enforcement agencies are beginning to understand just how effectively globalization has spread terrorism around the planet...
...Hamza al-Masri, arrived in 1981, having left one eye and both hands in Afghanistan. He was granted British citizenship in 1985, and his mosque in Finsbury Park, tucked among Victorian row houses one tube stop from Arsenal's soccer stadium, has become famous worldwide for preaching jihad. Moussaoui, the Courtailler brothers and Beghal all attended prayers there. Beghal is said also to be a follower of Abu Qatada, a radical who preached jihad from a community center on Baker Street and whose bank account, allegedly with $270,000 in it, was frozen by the Bank of England...
...After seven weeks of investigations there is no hard evidence that links the Hamburg cell to any other. There are fragments of a puzzle-Atta made a 10-day trip to Spain from Miami in July that continues to bother investigators, while French sources still think that Moussaoui may be connected to the Hamburg cell-but many pieces are missing...