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...Laden military chief Mohammed Atef that Aghans would drag slain U.S. troops through the streets, "like they were in Somalia." A letter of recommendation from al-Siri is alleged to have helped ease the way for two suicide bombers posing as journalists to see Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern League commander fatally wounded by them just two days before the World Trade Center attack...
Protracted negotiations won political concessions but fell short of achieving the desired action. Republicans didn?t exactly suffer from the stalemate. While unionist support for the agreement began to collapse, Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.?s political wing, rapidly grew into the largest party for Catholic nationalists. Many in Northern Ireland believed decommissioning would never happen...
...Believed to be a leading member of a Cologne-based extremist group. Five people arrested in separate investigations in Sarajevo Oct. 23, 2001 Yasser al-Siri, who runs the extremist Islamic Observation Center in London, is arrested. He is alleged to have provided references for two terrorists who assassinated Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud in early September
...Pentagon, peace wasn?t one of them. But the shockwaves that rippled across the globe after the attacks on New York and Washington didn?t just bring war. Last week they proved to have one unforeseen, positive effect as changing attitudes to terrorism helped push the faltering Northern Ireland peace process decisively forward...
Intense negotiations among Belfast, Dublin and London established that the elements of the summertime package could still save the Northern Ireland government from collapse, and the I.R.A. was finally persuaded to move. Sinn Fein also admitted some responsibility over the Colombian episode to answer the U.S. concerns...