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...eight are now in custody while Spanish investigators try to flesh out what is still a largely circumstantial case for that connection. The probe centers on the cell?s alleged leader, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian-born family man known to his comrades as Abu Dahdah. He lived with his Spanish wife, a Muslim convert, and their four children in a leafy middle-class neighborhood on the southern fringe of Madrid...
...Spanish investigators consider it "curious," one of them told Time, that six of the eight men under indictment hail from Aleppo, the ancient Syrian city about which Atta wrote his urban planning dissertation and which he visited at least once...
...just trying to make Uncle Sam all warm and fuzzy. Still, she's doing what she can with leaflets and rapid response. Bin Laden had his say unanswered the first time, but she's been ready with Yankee counter-programming since, shuttling Powell, Condoleeza Rice and, most recently, former Syrian ambassador, Chris Ross, over to Washington's Al Jazeera studios on quick notice. Minutes after bin Laden's latest tape was aired, Ross was taking it apart in fluent Arabic and participating in an international panel of talking heads afterwards...
More important, Salim acknowledged to his German interrogators that he had opened an account at Deutsche Bank and that he gave signature power over the account to Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian businessman who had settled in Hamburg in the 1980s and who has told reporters that he knew some of the Sept. 11 hijackers. Darkazanli attended the wedding of Said Bahaji, an alleged member of the cell that included suspects Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi. Bahaji's wedding album includes pictures of Atta and Al-Shehhi. Darkazanli's name is now on a list of 39 terrorists and organizations...
...rocket could make the terror attacks of the intifadeh much more effective. Named for a military division of Hamas, the weapon has a range of 3 miles, far longer than Hamas' garage-built mortar shells. Palestinian security chiefs tell TIME that Hizballah operatives bought or stole a rocket from Syrian soldiers in Lebanon and smuggled it to Gaza, where a Hamas "engineering unit" made two duplicates...