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...Manila, Philippine police bust a cadre of al-Qaeda members plotting to blow up 12 airplanes, a scheme they called Operation Bojinka (Serbo-Croatian for explosion). On a test run, the co-conspirators had planted a small bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight that killed one passenger. Officials finger Ramzi Yousef--the wanted leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the plot's masterminds. An accomplice of Yousef's, Abdul Hakim Murad, who learned to fly at a U.S. flight school, tells interrogators he and Yousef discussed a plan to fly a small plane...
...recognizance pending a new trial. The court threw out his February 2003 conviction on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization and accessory to more than 3,000 counts of murder, arguing that the court had been unable to consider possibly exculpatory evidence from alleged al-Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshibh, who is in American custody. Justice, however measured, may be less central to many Europeans' concerns these days than simple safety. As Leganés resident Juani Lopez waited for her bus last week, she was nervous. The previous day, a man had climbed aboard her bus well before...
...United States, and war is what they got." To Kerry this is so much chest thumping and simply ignores what made success possible. It was a combination of local law enforcement and U.S. intelligence services, he argues, that tracked down al-Qaeda masterminds like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh in Pakistan. "Joining with local police forces didn't mean serving these terrorists with legal papers," he says. "It meant throwing them behind bars. None of the progress we have made would have been possible without cooperation...
...Motassadeq, 29, did not receive a fair trial in Hamburg last year. The Moroccan, a friend of the Hamburg hijackers, had been found guilty of being an accessory to murder on more than 3,000 counts in connection with 9/11, but the court was unable to hear testimony from Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody. The U.S. government turned down the prosecution's requests to allow Binalshibh to testify, or even provide transcripts of his questioning. "The interests of the state to maintain secrecy cannot result in a disadvantage for the defendant," said Judge Klaus...
...Germany chose not to send Mzoudi to a special terrorist court but to treat him like any other criminal defendant, with full legal protections. Police even entered evidence that turned out to help him: the summary of an interrogation of an anonymous al-Qaeda leader, believed to be Ramzi Binalshibh, naming the members of the Hamburg cell - which excluded Mzoudi. Prosecutors wanted the US to produce Binalshibh for live cross-examination, or at least cough up the full transcript of his interrogation, so they could try to prove him a liar. But fearing their intelligence work would be compromised...