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...hunted man was Abu Zubaydah, 31, the Saudi-born Palestinian who helped assemble the inner mechanisms of Osama bin Laden's worldwide terror network. If anyone knows where bin Laden is hiding--or where al-Qaeda sleeper cells are lying dormant inside the U.S.--it is this trusted lieutenant. As al-Qaeda's chief of operations and top recruiter, Zubaydah could provide the names of terrorists around the world and which targets they planned...
...hunted man was Abu Zubaydah, 31, the Saudi-born Palestinian who helped assemble the inner mechanisms of Osama bin Laden's worldwide terror network. If anyone knows where bin Laden is hiding?or where al-Qaeda sleeper cells are lying dormant inside the U.S.?it is this trusted lieutenant. As al-Qaeda's chief of operations and top recruiter, Zubaydah could provide the names of terrorists around the world and which targets they planned...
...custody are still being investigated for possible links to terrorist activity. The worldwide dragnet has snared 600 alleged al-Qaeda operatives. And yet the bottom line is sobering: after six months of gumshoe work by just about every law-enforcement official in the U.S., the number of al-Qaeda sleeper cells that have been busted inside the country is precisely zero. Does that mean bin Laden's men have gone further underground? "We don't know," says an FBI official. "If you go back and look at the hijackers, they had zero contact with any known al-Qaeda people...
...While there is a genuine debate inside the government about whether he is still alive, there is far less argument about what will happen after Washington is able to confirm that he is dead. A U.S. official told TIME last week that it is widely presumed that al-Qaeda sleeper cells will take retaliatory action once the terrorist leader is killed or proved dead...
...Algerians have been arrested in Britain - though many have been cleared and released - in connection with terrorist activities. They are part of an extensive web of Algerian activity all across Europe. Two weeks ago six Algerians detained in Bosnia, whom Americans suspect of being part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, were handed over to U.S. authorities. Elsewhere in Europe, Algerian extremists have taken a leading role in some operational cells and have also developed expertise in support activities. According to Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University, Algerian extremists have specialized in credit-card fraud...