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* Romanian police last month detained an Egyptian man with suspected links to the militant group
Islamic Jihad. The suspect, who was held for three days and released, was allegedly trying to
sneak into Hungary. Romanian officials say the suspect is still under investigation.

* In Milan, Italy, a judge indicted five Tunisians in July for alleged links to AI-Qaeda. A sixth man,
arrested as part of the same group, plea-bargained to the lower charges of forging documents
and smuggling illegal immigrants.

* Two Algerian illegal immigrants in Britain were convicted in April of raising funds and recruiting
for AI-Qaeda.
Experts wonder if this could just be the beginning as terrorists seek a back door around even the
most seamless security.

'In some ways, it's a perfect cover,' said Mr. Saeed Laylaz, a security analyst in Teheran.

'A terrorist pretends to be an economic migrant with no papers. Even if you're caught, you're
usually just sent back and able to try again.'

The immigrant routes could be part of a reshaping of strategies by AI-Qaeda and other groups in
response to worldwide security clampdowns, some experts believe.

Instead of hiding in plain sight - as the Sept 11 hijackers managed to do - terrorist cells may
increasingly adopt underground tactics: no inspections at border points, no paper trail to track, the
anonymity of the undocumented.
Some experts see an alliance of convenience developing between smugglers hungry for cash
and terrorists willing to pay whatever it takes.

9. Reports: Al Qaeda operative sought anthrax

MARIA RESSA
CNN

An al Qaeda operative in Afghanistan tried to purchase anthrax for the terrorist network in 2001
but was unsuccessful, according to reports from the interrogations of two top terrorist suspects in
custody.

The reports, compiled by U.S. interrogators, detail claims by Hambali -- the senior al Qaeda
strategist for Southeast Asia captured two months ago in Thailand - and Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed, the reputed architect of the September 11, 2001, attacks who was captured in
Pakistan in May.

According to the reports - released to southeast Asian officials and obtained by CNN - Yazid
Sufaat, a 1987 biochemistry graduate of California State University-Sacramento, set up Green
Laboratory Medicine Company to acquire anthrax and develop biological weapons for al Qaeda.

Sufaat, however, was not able to buy the right strain of anthrax that could be dispersed as a
weapon. He remained in Kandahar, Afghanistan, until the U.S.-led military campaign on
Afghanistan began in October 2001.

He and Hambali talked about continuing their work in Indonesia, according to the reports. Sufaat,
however, was arrested by Malaysian authorities in December 2001.

Mohammed, in his interrogation report, suggested that the attempt to acquire anthrax might be
why Zacarias Moussaoui was interested in learning how to operate cropdusters.

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