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...proof came two weeks ago, when Moroccan police in Casablanca announced the arrest of three Saudis--Zuher al-Tbaiti, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal Alissiri--on suspicion of plotting an attack on an American or British warship in the Strait of Gibraltar. (The group had been planning to buy a Zodiac motorized skiff, which could have been used for an attack like the one on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000.) Moroccan officials tell TIME that they started tailing the group after a tip from the U.S., which had been questioning Moroccan al-Qaeda detainees in Cuba. The detainees told...
...Qaeda commander known as Mullah Blal - who directed the Cole bombing in October 2000. The sources say that within the past month, Al Tbaiti and at least one of the other Saudi suspects traveled to the northern Moroccan coast to launch preparations for attacking a U.S. or British warship passing through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. Using the meticulous planning for the Cole operation as their blueprint, they scouted for housing that could serve as a surveillance post overlooking refueling stations in Mellilia and in Ceuta, Spanish-controlled coastal enclaves in Morocco. The pair, sources tell TIME, also looked into...
...facilities, luxury hotels catering to Western tourists and synagogues serving the 4,000 remaining members of Morocco's 2,000-year-old Jewish community. Moroccan sources say that any plans to strike inside Morocco were probably aborted when instructions finally arrived to begin preparations for the attack on a warship. Al Tbaiti bowed out of that project, meanwhile, when new orders arrived for the Saudis to proceed to Saudi Arabia for an operation there...
...member of Goddio's underwater team. In the 1980s, Goddio concentrated on excavating shipwrecks, including a Chinese junk and the Spanish galleon San Diego, off the coast of the Philippines. Since then, he has focused on Egypt. In 1999, his team excavated the remains of L'Orient, Napoleon's warship sunk by Lord Nelson in 1798 during the Battle of Abukir. Turning to the antique world, Goddio used the magnetometer to develop the most detailed map ever made of the ancient Egyptian coastline. Excavations based on this topographical research led to his discovery of Herakleion and part of the city...
...Pentagon say that in all likelihood he would be selected by President Bush to face a military tribunal. But where that proceeding would occur and under what ground rules remain to be hammered out. He would probably spend some time in custody at sea aboard a U.S. warship. (American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is being held aboard the U.S.S. Bataan, an amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea.) A shipboard trial for Omar is even possible. Charges would probably involve aiding a terrorist enterprise but not directly engaging in terrorism, which would be harder to prove...