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...March 2002, the terrorist called Abu Zubaydah was one of the most wanted men on earth. A leading member of Osama bin Laden's brain trust, he is thought to have been in operational control of al-Qaeda's millennium bomb plots as well as the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. After the spectacular success of the airliner assaults on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, he continued to devise terrorist plans...
Seventeen months ago, the U.S. finally grabbed Zubaydah in Pakistan and has kept him locked up in a secret location ever since. His name has probably faded from most memories. It's about to get back in the news. A new book by Gerald Posner says Zubaydah has made startling revelations about secret connections linking Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and bin Laden...
...pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight. His indictment of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies covers well-trodden ground, though sometimes the might-have-beens and could-have-seens are stretched thin. The stuff that is going to spark hot debate is Chapter 19, an account--based on Zubaydah's claims as told to Posner by "two government sources" who are unnamed but "in a position to know"--of what two countries allied to the U.S. did to build up al-Qaeda and what they knew before that September...
...Zubaydah's capture and interrogation, told in a gripping narrative that reads like a techno-thriller, did not just take down one of al-Qaeda's most wanted operatives but also unexpectedly provided what one U.S. investigator told Posner was "the Rosetta stone of 9/11 ... the details of what [Zubaydah] claimed was his 'work' for senior Saudi and Pakistani officials." The tale begins at 2 a.m. on March 28, 2002, when U.S. surveillance pinpointed Zubaydah in a two-story safe house in Pakistan. Commandos rousted out 62 suspects, one of whom was seriously wounded while trying to flee. A Pakistani...
...Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme Court ultimately freed the men for lack of evidence, and the Chamber of Human Rights, a panel established under the Dayton peace accords, not only endorsed the verdict but issued an order barring the government from exiling the prisoners...