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...million is the value of missiles exported by North Korea to Iran, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates in 2001, claim U.S. military sources...
...volunteer jihadis had flocked from all over the world. But the U.S.-led ouster of the Taliban regime put Bin Laden's men to flight, forcing them to scatter and decentralize their operations across Pakistan's cities and tribal areas, in remote parts of Chechnya and Georgia, in Morocco, Yemen and other Arab countries, possibly even in Iran according to some intelligence estimates, and, more recently, once again inside Afghanistan's increasingly anarchic countryside. Far greater emphasis was placed on these scattered cells taking local initiatives and striking at targets of opportunity...
...first cousin of 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef, was arrested with a higher-ranking al-Qaeda lieutenant, Walid Ba 'Attash, aka "Khallad" or Tawfiq Bin Attash an Osama bin Laden intimate who is believed to have organized the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen...
...latest round of bombing is likely to inflame the unprecedented hostility the war has ignited among even relatively moderate quarters in the Arab world. Fierce clashes on the streets of Egypt and Yemen in the past two days have served as a reminder of the strains the war has put on Arab governments allied with Washington. Still, the danger of civilian casualties increases exponentially if coalition armies are forced to wrest control of Baghdad from determined defenders, and U.S. commanders are hoping that the combination of heavy air bombardment of the regime's power centers and the rapid drive...
...Ramzi Yousef bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. He hatched plots, never carried out, to bring down U.S. airliners over the Pacific and to assassinate President Clinton and the Pope. He may well have masterminded--officials aren't sure yet--the deadly assault on the U.S.S. Cole off Yemen and the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. Accomplices told Pakistani police that Mohammed slashed the throat of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl a year ago. And everyone agrees on his culpability for one other crime: directing the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington, the worst terrorist...