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...gears of British justice are starting to grind more quickly. London has detained and questioned a number of Sept. 11 suspects, including Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian alleged to have helped train the suicide pilots in the attacks. And last week Yasser al-Siri, whose bookstore and website are well known in London, was charged with conspiracy to murder Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance. Massoud died after assassins bombed his headquarters on Sept...
...Siri's case demonstrates the oddities of the international legal system. He is in Britain on asylum from Egypt, where he was sentenced to death for the attempted murder of the Prime Minister in 1993, a charge he denies. "That was a military court," he told TIME before his arrest. "I'm a civilian." Governments across Western Europe, their feet held to the fire by strong civil-liberties groups, have been protective of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. And while the European Union has demolished barriers to the movement of goods and people, its 15 nations have been...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Key arrests include Lotfi Raissi, who allegedly helped teach the hijackers how to fly; Kamel Daoudi, a computer whiz suspected in the Paris plot; and Yasser al-Siri, who was charged in connection with the assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud...
...millionaire newspaper magnate whose holdings include the Daily Telegraph in London and the Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often criticized in Black's papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud. NAMED. WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR., 44, as CEO of Ford Motor Co.; in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford, chairman since...
...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