Word: sleepers
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...lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri still at large, if not at liberty. Mohammed is a prize catch because he was still very much in business. With 200,000 U.S. and British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command--are still intact, intelligence experts say. "This is the planner...
...characters remain at large, including Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, JI's operational commander; Saifullah Yunos, a.k.a. Muklis, leader of a JI cell; and Azahari bin Husin, allegedly the man who designed the Bali bombs. And those are just the most wanted?a roster that doesn't include members of sleeper cells that may be lying in wait across the region. What's more, a U.S.-led war in Iraq could be a powerful rallying issue for terrorists at large. Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror, expects a "flood of new recruits" into radical groups...
...which a top al- Qaeda leader, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, was thought to be riding along with five other people, including an American citizen. The American, believed to be Kamal Derwish, was later described by Administration officials as the leader of an alleged al- Qaeda sleeper cell in New York State. The officials said he persuaded young men from Lackawanna, N.Y., a Buffalo suburb, to travel to Afghanistan for religious studies at locations that turned out to be terrorist training camps. Six members of the group were arrested last September and charged with providing material support to a foreign...
...officials have no knowledge of any sleeper cells in the U.S. that have been positioned by Saddam to act when the war starts. But they cannot be certain that one hasn't slipped under the radar. Nor have agents located another Al Qaeda operational team on the model of the 19 hijackers. But some individual Al Qaeda followers have been identified and are being covertly monitored for signs that they are coalescing to mount a strike...
...main al-Qaeda lieutenants in the Chechnya-Georgia region, says Jacquard, is a Jordanian known as Abu Atiyya. In addition to overseeing the deployment of militants to training camps, he is thought to play a key role in reassigning trained personnel to terror networks, including setting up sleeper cells in such places as Azerbaijan and Turkey. It's believed that within the last year, Abu Atiyya ordered a group of 15 "Chechens" to gravitate to Europe via Turkey. Six of those 15, according to French sources, were among nine people arrested in raids last month in La Courneuve and Romainville...