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...worried that he would fashion his own noose. As the government filed revised indictments, Moussaoui tried to plead no contest or even guilty before Brinkema patiently explained that he would be confessing to all the charges if he did so. Instead, he declared his allegiance to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden while denying any role in 9/11. "I had nothing to do with Sept. 11," he said...
...Most of you are a mob with no trace of good morals. We will continue to fight you as long as we have weapons in our hands." ATTRIBUTED TO OSAMA BIN LADEN, al-Qaeda leader, in a message to Americans broadcast on al-Jazeera; a reference to a $450 billion U.S. budget deficit suggests it was taped after July...
...friendly Western and regional powers with information culled from some 500 al-Qaeda captives. "If Americans need any information," he says, "they can ask through countries friendly to us." Ramezanzadeh also insists that three al-Qaeda leaders reportedly in Iran are not among those his country has captured: Osama bin Laden's son Saad, bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri, and spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith...
...suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil, was arrested on Sept. 25 in the city of Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until the country's authorities barred him from entry in 1994 on suspicion of providing funding to Islamic militants and possible involvement in a plot to blow up 12 U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Abdeljalil...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wants to boost his nation's international profile. The latest audio-tape message attributed to Osama bin Laden shows he may have succeeded: the al-Qaeda leader named Japan?which has pledged $5 billion in aid to Iraq and is preparing to send troops in December?as one of six U.S. allies targeted for future terrorist attacks. It is the first time al-Qaeda has said Japan is in its sights...