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...effort to disrupt any potential strikes, French authorities last week arrested Slimane Khalfaoui, a 27-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin and a veteran of jihads in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Material evidence ties Khalfaoui to a Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it prepared an attack on Strasbourg Cathedral. Khal-faoui has also been linked to "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, an al-Qaeda operative convicted in the U.S. for his foiled plan to strike the Los Angeles airport in December 1999. Evidence and testimony indicate both actions were overseen from London by al-Qaeda's main European terror...
...wondered when and where the next strike might come. Governments from Britain to Australia had the impossible task of warning citizens about the danger while urging them to live normally. German authorities debated how to improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown...
...that al-Qaeda's international jihad provides today." The terror cells that are following Bensaïd's example do have that support, and Continental police continue to find evidence that the G.I.A. model remains in force. The December 2000 raid of a Frankfurt cell preparing an attack in Strasbourg, as well as September 2001 sweeps of operatives plotting a suicide attack of the U.S. embassy in Paris, confirmed that the cells involved were self-financing criminal activity, cooperating with other European cells and being guided from London. "Terror attacks like the one in Djerba don't require bin Laden...
...considering the proposal because the cultures the foundation refers to - Muslim, Jewish and Christian - coexisted in Spain for seven centuries under Moorish rule. After Spain, the East-Western Divan performs in L?beck, Germany this Friday, at Berlin's Deutsche Staatsoper on Sept.1, and at the Congress Palace in Strasbourg on Sept. 2. Last week, while rehearsing, Barenboim halted his young team in a subdued passage of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. "Too much muscle," he scolded the strings. If only it were as easy to make music replace muscle in the lands where these musicians live...
...power made Massoud's plea for outside assistance more urgent. "We told the Americans--we told everyone--that al-Qaeda was set upon a transnational program," says Abdullah Abdullah, once a close aide to Massoud and now the Afghan Foreign Minister. In April, Massoud addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, seeking support for the Northern Alliance. "If President Bush doesn't help us," he told a reporter, "these terrorists will damage the U.S. and Europe very soon...