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...between the Germans and the Italians in rounding up the Milan cell - with a series of arrests in both countries first in April and then in October - represents the way things are supposed to work. There have been other successful international busts in Europe: when police used a French tip and moved in on the so-called Meliani cell in Frankfurt last Dec. 26, they arrested two Iraqis, an Algerian and a French Muslim, but they didn?t get "Meliani" himself - Algerian Mohammed Bensakhria. The Spanish police did, acting on German information, on June 22, by which time the formerly...
Bensayah Belkacem, 41 Algerian Status: Arrested Oct. 8 in Zenica, Bosnia. Suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell. Numbers in his mobile phone link him to at least one of bin Laden?s top lieutenants. Arrested on tip from U.S. Calls to bin Laden?s aides, intercepted by intelligence organizations, suggest he was trying to arrange for false papers...
...central piece of the U.S. strategy--to grease the gates of entry into southern Afghanistan by turning tribal leaders and warlords against the Taliban--may have died along with Haq. His capture also highlighted the treachery of the Taliban's network of spies in Pakistan, who will try to tip off holy warriors in Kandahar to pending U.S. raids. In American war rooms, that reality--and the memories of Beirut and Mogadishu--haunts military strategists. As long as the public is patient and intelligence is thin, the Pentagon will wait on ordering up big commando missions that might produce heavy...
...best preparation is to let terrorists know, ?We know what you're up to. We're ready,'" Davis said Thursday. But what exactly did he know? In this case, the threat to attack bridges at rush hour between last Friday and this Wednesday, based on a raw, overseas tip to the U.S. Customs Service, wasn't considered credible by the FBI-despite Davis' characterizations to the contrary. Like countless other reports that go out every day over the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (nlets)-the authorities' national Intranet tip sheet-this one was never supposed to be made public...
...production marks the stage premiere of Grave Affairs, a radio play written six years ago for the BBC by co-director John Mathew. The play takes place in the fictitious village of Matoor, in the real district of Kerala at the tip of southwest India. Matoor’s population includes people of widely varying religious faiths—Hindus, Muslims and Christians—an assortment that makes for insecure relations and latent hostilities, not to mention some interesting graveyards...