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...only did the cell actively recruit members to al-Qaeda, arrange their transport to Afghanistan training camps and provide illicit funding to the terrorist outfit, Garzón claims. But unlike its counterparts in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan and Sarajevo, the Madrid cell also "may have been directly involved in the preparation and implementation" of the U.S. attacks...
FOILED OCT. 8, 2001 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA NATO officials say they disrupted an al-Qaeda cell that was planning to attack the U.S. embassy and Eagle Base airfield, used by some 3,000 U.S. peacekeepers...
...conversation was in code, but to trained ears it was easily understood. Picked up by U.S. listening devices on Oct. 16 in Sarajevo, it ranged in topics from the bombing in Afghanistan to "what the response should be here," a senior Bosnian official told TIME. U.S. and British targets in Bosnia were mentioned. But it was the sign-off that got listeners' attention: "Tomorrow we will start." Both countries shut down their embassies and branch offices overnight. Using mobile-phone-card registration numbers, Bosnian police tracked down and arrested both callers--Algerian nationals with Bosnian citizenship. Within 72 hours three...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] The arrests uncovered a comprehensive plot to attack Eagle Base, used by some 3,000 U.S. peacekeepers, as well as the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo...
...Tunisian national also suspected of planning a chemical attack, arrested in Milan Oct. 17, 2001 Harun Aydin, a Turk, apprehended in Frankfurt attempting to board a plane to Tehran. 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