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...fighting if we wanted to cross the lines. The commander also said we might have to wait a long time before we got our chance. Young Mahdi Army fighters with wild eyes stopped by the office to show us their captured weapons. In the late afternoon, an old sheikh visited Abu Mohammed's office and said to us that he had just come from the shrine in Najaf. The sheikh described how he had walked through the American front lines without a problem, but if we wanted to go, we had to leave immediately. Abu Mohammed gave...
...unexpectedly turned over intelligence reports based on questioning of two top al-Qaeda operatives. It was a victory for the Germans - except that the testimony seems to exonerate el-Motassadeq. Ramzi Binalshibh, the only surviving member of the core Hamburg cell that carried out the attacks, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected 9/11 mastermind, were questioned independently. Both men claimed el-Motassadeq was not a member of the cell, which included Binalshibh and three hijackers, according to copies of the reports reviewed by Time. But the U.S. agent who wrote the report warns that their statements "may have been meant...
...forces; in Gujarat, Pakistan. One of America's 22 most-wanted terrorists, the Tanzania-born Ghailani (whose aliases include Ahmed the Tanzanian and Foopie) evaded capture for almost six years and is believed to be the most senior al-Qaeda official caught in Pakistan since the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, last year...
...Laden is portrayed as a micromanager who wanted to hit the White House and personally chose all of the "muscle" hijackers. There are telling details about the lives and passions of the hijackers. For example, the 9/11 scheme nearly foundered several times over the terrorists' personal tribulations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the plot's mastermind, became enraged when one hijacker-in-waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed him to search...
...donation, pledged in 2000 by UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, had been put on hold by the University in May 2003 while it examined his alleged ties to the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow...