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FOREWORD

ATTACKING TERRORIST NETWORKS AT HOME AND ABROAD

• Defeating Terrorist Leadership and Personnel

• Denying Terrorist Haven and Sponsorship
• Eradicating Sources of Terrorist Financing

SECURING THE HOMELAND

• Reorganizing the Federal Government

• Reducing America's Vulnerability to Terrorism
• Enhancing Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities

STRENGTHENING AND SUSTAINING THE INTERNATIONAL FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM

• Global Efforts to Fight Terrorism

• Regional Efforts to Fight Terrorism
• Diminishing Underlying Conditions Terrorists Exploit

CONCLUSION

EXECUTIVESUMMARY

ATTACKING TERRORIST NETWORKS AT HOME AND ABROAD

Since September 11, 2001, the United States, with the help of its allies and partners, has dismantled the repressive Taliban,
denied al-Qaida a safe haven in Afghanistan, and defeated Saddam Hussein's regime. Actions at home and abroad have
produced the following results:

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Immediately after the Israeli missile strike that killed Yassin, Rantisi and other
Hamas leaders threatened to retaliate against the United States, Israel's
staunchest ally. However, a few days later, Rantisi backed down from the
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Since the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996, the United
States has consistently discussed with them peace,
humanitarian assistance, drugs and human rights. However,
we have made clear that Usama bin Laden (UBL) and terrorism
is the preeminent issue between the U.S. and the Taliban.
• These concerns over bin Ladin preceded the 1998 bombings.
• For instance, Secretary Christopher wrote to the Taliban
Foreign Minister in 1996 that. xvwe wish to work with you
to expel all terrorists and those who support terrorism..."

In our talks we have stressed that UBL has murdered

Americans and continues to plan attacks against Americans
and others and that we cannot ignore this threat.
• Have also emphasized that the international community
f shares this concern. In 1999 and in 2000, the UN
Security Council passed resolutions demanding that UBL be
expelled to a country where he can be brought to justice.
« Have told the Taliban that the terrorist problem is not
confined to bin Laden and that the Taliban must take
steps to shut down all terrorist activities.
• Have told them that the resolution of the bin Laden issue
and steps to close the terrorist apparatus would enable
us to discuss other issues in an improved atmosphere.
• Conversely, have stressed that if this terrorism issue is
not addressed, there can be no improvement in relations.

These talks have been fruitless. The Taliban usually said

that they want a solution but cannot comply with UNSCRs.
Often the Taliban asked the U.S. to suggest a solution.
In October 1999, the Taliban suggested several
"solutions" including a UBL trial by a panel of Islamic
scholars or monitoring of UBL Afghanistan by OIC or UN.
Taliban consistently maintained that UBL's activities are
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(CNN) —The U.S. government asked the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to expel or hand over Osama bin
Laden more than two dozen times between September 1996 and summer 2001, according to a recently
declassified State Department cable.

Three of those attempts were made after the Bush administration came into office in late January
2001.

Despite the various efforts, "these talks have been fruitless," the cable said.

The cable was written in July 2001 and was obtained recently by the National Security Archive at
George Washington University through the Freedom of Information Act. The National Security
Archive posted the document to its Web site Friday.

Sajit Gandhi, research associate at the NSA, said there are indications that the Taliban were
approached more than 30 times during the time period.

The Taliban religious militia ruled much of Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until a coalition of U.S.
and allied forces drove them from power in November 2001.

The Taliban had given haven to al Qaeda before the attacks of September 11 2001. Remnants of the
group remain active, and bin Laden is still at large.

The State Department held its first meeting with a Taliban official September 18, 1996, when the
political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, asked that bin Laden be made
"unwelcome" in Afghanistan.

According to the document, the U.S. official was told by the Afghani deputy foreign affairs adviser
that "the Taliban do not support terrorism and would not provide refuge to bin Laden."

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By early 2000, officials at the National Security Agency had struck a virtual gold mine of
intelligence on the operations of Osama bin Laden. Eavesdropping on a busy phone line at an al
Qaeda safehouse in the dust-blown Yemeni capital of Sana, they discovered what proved to be a
vital communications hub for the terrorist network. The NSA-America's top-secret electronic spy
agency-listened in as al Qaeda's top lieutenants passed messages between bin Laden and
operatives worldwide. Analysts suspected that one caller, a man named Khalid, was part of an al
Qaeda "operational cadre."

But it was only after the September 11 attacks that authorities realized just how dangerous Khalid
was. He turned out to be Khalid al-Mihdar, one of five hijackers who would perish in the attack on
the Pentagon. And what no one knew back in early 2000 was that al-Mihdar was in the United
States when he called the house in Yemen. The content of some of his conversations, in fact,
was reported to the FBI at the time, but neither the FBI nor the NSA investigated much further,
officials now say.

The failure to discover al-Mihdar's presence in America-and perhaps stumble upon the hijacking
plot-has emerged as one of the most glaring intelligence lapses preceding the 9/11 attacks. It is
also now a central focus of the independent 9/11 commission, which plans to address the larger
problem in the handoff of information from the NSA to the FBI in an upcoming public hearing.
"This was very damaging," says Eleanor Hill, who directed Congress's earlier probe into 9/11.
"The intelligence community was not sufficiently focused on the threat to the United States."

Surprisingly, government agencies often did not~or could not-trace the location of all calls made
to and from targeted sites, even such high-value ones as the Yemeni house. The failure to follow
up on al-Mihdar's calls to Yemen was discussed in oblique and heavily redacted passages in the
joint congressional inquiry released last July, which described communications involving "a
suspected terrorist facility in the Middle East." U.S. News has learned that the "facility" was the
Yemeni safehouse, which authorities describe as one of the most important sources of hard
intelligence about al Qaeda before 9/11. The home belonged to Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-
Hada, an al Qaeda facilitator who was also al-Mihdar's brother-in-law. The FBI obtained al-Hada's
phone number from a suspect in the twin 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.

Over the next three years, sources say, NSA eavesdroppers mined intelligence that helped
authorities foil a series of terrorist plots, including planned attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Paris
and the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, along with art-attempted airline hijacking in Africa The home
also served as a planning center Tor the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Hada was
killed two years later when a hand grenade he was carrying exploded as he was being chased by
Yemeni police.

Waging war.

The matter remains shrouded in secrecy, reflecting broader concerns by authorities over
revealing details of America's most sensitive intelligence gathering techniques. How the nation's
eavesdroppers work and what they listen to are rarely discussed publicly, but the two 9/11 probes
have thrown rare light on the inner workings of U.S. intelligence. The failure to detect al-Mihdar's
presence in America, for example, reveals another flaw in America's counter-terrorism efforts
before 9/11: The intelligence community lacked a coordinated program to monitor contact by
people in the United States with suspected terrorists overseas. "We were waging a war," says a
counterterrorism official, "and nobody knew it, including the troops."

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and Central Asia. After his resignation in 1997, he wrote See No Evil, a
chronicle of his career and his deep disillusionment with the agency during th
Clinton years. In Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soulfoi
Saudi Crude, Baer again plays to his strengths. Here Baer turns to our
relationship with Saudi Arabia, offering a glimpse into the shortsightedness
and dysfunction of U.S. policy that only a veteran Middle East hand like
himself ~ fluent in Arabic and immersed in the study of Islamist terrorism —
could provide.
According to Baer, the Saudi royal family is a deeply corrupt and degenerate
bunch. Sleeping with the Devil offers a litany of anecdotes that convey the
almost fin de siecle depravity of the extended Saudi royal family ~ not just
high-stakes gambling and whoring in Monte Carlo, France's Cote d'Azur and
Morocco but "illegal ventures" that make the princes widely resented at home
Family members are not above, for example, supplementing their royal
allowances with bribes on construction contracts and arms deals, selling visas
and bootlegged alcohol, or even "seizing commoners' property and selling it."
Widespread Saudi resentment at such behavior has, Baer leaves no doubt,
helped give rise to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, whose members include
the 15 Saudi hijackers who took part in the September 11 attacks.
But Baer's tale is not only an indictment of the Saudi royal family and its
excesses. The real target of Baer's criticism is the U.S. government itself.
According to Baer, successive presidential administrations have stubbornly
ignored the facts about Riyadh and other oil-rich Persian Gulf allies. In the
wake of 9-11, of course, the evidence that the Saudis played a significant if nc
dominant role in those attacks, and in the ranks and leadership of al-Qaeda,
was overwhelming. But Baer writes that the U.S. government had for years
had plenty of information about the Saudi role in earlier terrorist attacks
against Americans, including the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the 1995
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• In Liberia, UN peacekeepers and the transitional government face a daunting challenge to , f^(-f ^^ ,,
rein in armed factions, including remnants of Charles Taylor's militias.
• Sudan's chances for lasting peace are its best in decades, with more advances possible in
the short term, given outside guarantees and incentives.
• A fragile peace process in Burundi and struggling transitional government in Congo
(Kinshasa) have the potential to end conflicts that so far have claimed a combined total of
over 3 million lives.
• Tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea over their disputed border is jeopardizing the peace
accord brokered by US officials in 2000.

THE OTHER TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES

Let me conclude my comments this morning by briefly considering some important transnational
concerns that touch on the war against terrorism.

We're used to thinking of that fight as a sustained worldwide effort to get the perpetrators and
would-be perpetrator off the street. This is an important preoccupation, and we will never lose
sight of it.

But places that combine desperate social and economic circumstances with a failure of
government to police its own territory can often provide nurturing environments for terrorist groups,
and for insurgents and criminals. The failure of governments to control their own territory creates
potential power vacuums that open opportunities for those who hate.

• We count approximately 50 countries that have such "stateless zones." In half of these,
terrorist groups are thriving. AI-QaMda and extremists like the Taliban, operating in the
Afghanistan-Pakistan border area, are well known examples.

As the war on terrorism progresses, terrorists will be driven from their safe havens to seek new
hideouts where they can undertake training, planning, and staging without interference from
government authorities. The prime candidates for new "no man's lands" are remote, rugged
regions where central governments have no consistent reach and where socioeconomic problems
are rife.

Many factors play into the struggle to eradicate stateless zones and dry up the wellsprings of
disaffection.

• Population trends. More than half of the Middle East's population is under the age of 22.
"Youth bulges," or excessive numbers of unemployed young people, are historical markers
for increased risk of political violence and recruitment into radical causes. The
disproportionate rise of young age cohorts will be particularly pronounced in Iraq, followed
by Syria, Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
• Infectious disease. The HIV/AIDS pandemic remains a global humanitarian crisis that also
endangers social and political stability. Although Africa currently has the greatest number of
HIV/AIDS cases-more than 29 million infected-the disease is spreading rapidly. Last year, I
warned about rising infection rates in Russia, China, India, and the Caribbean. But the virus
is also gaining a foothold in the Middle East and North Africa, where governments may be
lulled into overconfidence by the protective effects of social and cultural conservatism.
• Humanitarian need. Need will again outpace international pledges for assistance. Sub-
Saharan Africa and such conflict-ravaged places like Chechnya, Tajikistan, and the
Palestinian Occupied Territories will compete for aid against assistance to Iraq and
Afghanistan. Only 40 percent of UN funding requirements for 2003 had been met for the five
most needy countries in Africa.
• Food insecurity. More than 840 million people are undernourished worldwide, a number that

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HEADLINE: U.S. Hard Put to Find Proof Bin Laden Directed Attacks

BYLINE: By TIM WEINER

BODY:
American commandos are poised near the Afghan border, hoping to capture Osama
bin Laden, the man charged with blowing up two American embassies in Africa eight
months ago, senior American officials say.

But they still do not know how to find him. They are depending on his protectors in
Afghanistan to betray him — a slim reed of hope for one of the biggest and most
complicated international criminal investigations in American history.

Capturing Mr. bin Laden alive could deepen the complications. American officials say
that so far, firsthand evidence that could be used in court to prove that he
commanded the bombings has proven difficult to obtain. According to the public
record, none of the informants involved in the case have direct knowledge of Mr. bin
Laden's involvement.

For now, officials say, Federal prosecutors appear to be building a case that his
violent words and ideas, broadcast from an Afghan cave, incited terrorist acts
thousands of miles away.

In their war against Mr. bin Laden, American officials portray him as the world's most
dangerous terrorist. But reporters for The New York Times and the PBS program
"Frontline," working in cooperation, have found him to be less a commander of
terrorists than an inspiration for them.

Enemies and supporters, from members of the Saudi opposition to present and
former American intelligence officials, say he may not be as globally powerful as
some American officials have asserted. ButjTjsjTiessage and aims have more
resonance_among Muslims around the world than has been understood here. __

"You can kill Osama bin Laden today or tomorrow; you can arrest him and put him
on trial in New York or in Washington," said Ahmed Sattar, an aide to Sheik Omar
Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of inspiring the bombing of the
World Trade Center in 1993. "If this will end the problem ~ no. Tomorrow you will
get somebody else."

\s with senior American officials and knowledgeable observers of Mr. bin

) Laden in Pakistan, Sudan and elsewhere suggest that there is widespread support
[ among ordinary people in the Muslim world for his central political argument: that
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Al-Qaeda's Satellite Phone Records Revealed

by Nick Fielding and Dipesh Gadhery

The Sunday Times
March 24, 2002
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Records of Osama bin Laden's calls from his satellite phone reveal Britain was at the heart of the
terrorist's planning for his worldwide campaign of murder and destruction. Bin Laden and his most
senior lieutenants made more than 260 calls from their base in Afghanistan to 27 numbers in Britain.
They included suspected terrorist agents, sympathisers and companies. Some were prearranged calls to
public pay phones.

The records, obtained by The Sunday Times, show that the terrorist leader made more calls to Britain
than any other country in the two years that he used the phone. He stopped using it two months after
members of his Al-Qaeda terror network bombed two American embassies in east Africa in August
1998. He believed the Americans were tracking his movements through the phone. Two of the men
contacted by Bin Laden in Britain Khaled al Fawwaz and Ibrahim Eidarous are now in prison awaiting
extradition to the United States for their part in the embassy bombings, which killed 224 and injured
thousands. However, another senior terrorist suspect, Mustafa Nazar, is still free. He spent up to two
years in Dollis Hill, north London, recruiting for Al-Qaeda. A key figure in Bin Laden's terror training
camps, he left Britain in 1998 and was last seen in Afghanistan. The telephone records have come to
light following the trial of four Al-Qaeda terrorists who planned and carried out the bombing of the two
American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

According to trial documents, the satellite telephone was bought in 1996 with the help of Dr Saad al
Fagih, 45, a bearded surgeon who heads the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia.
This fundamentalist Muslim group is dedicated to the overthrow of the Saudi Arabian government but is
not part of Al-Qaeda. Al Fagih, who has been regularly used by the BBC as an expert on Bin Laden, has
in the past explained that Muslim scholars said the killing of civilians, including children, was allowed
by the Koran as "collateral damage" in the holy war. It was al Fagih's credit card which was used to help
buy the 10,500 Compact-M satellite phone in the United States and it was shipped to his home in north
London, according to American court documents. His credit card was also used to buy more than 3,000
minutes of pre-paid airtime.

Last week al Fagih, who has not been arrested or charged in connection with any of these actions, said:
"I am willing to speak to the authorities if they ask me about this or any other issue, but not to the press."

For two years Bin Laden and his military commander, Muhammad Atef, used the phone to direct Al-
Qaeda's operations. More than 200 calls were made to the London home and mobile phone of al
Fawwaz. Calls were also made to two public phone boxes in December 1996 and May 1997. One was
outside Willesden library in north London and another was only a few minutes walk from al Fawwaz's
home. Other calls were made to companies for which al Fawwaz worked. Al Fawwaz, who lived in
Kenya from 1993-94 before moving to London, was head of a group called the Advice and Reformation
Committee, based in Queen's Park, northwest London, which has been described by the FBI as a front
organisation for Bin Laden. Al Fawwaz kept a note of the satphone number in his address book under
the name of Atef. But according to American court documents the phone was regularly used by Bin
Laden.

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February 24,1999
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Report: 7 Bin Laden Attacks Stopped *
By The Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - U.S. intelligence agencies have stopped accused terrorist Osama bin Laden
from carrying out at leastsjeY.en bomb attacks on overseas facilities since the bombings of two U.S.
embassies last AugusttJSA Today reportobx
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Citing unidentified senior intelligence officials, the paper said the thwarted attacks were against the
Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia where more than 50 U.S. jets are kept and against embassies in
Albania, Azerbaijan, Ivory Coast, Tajikistan, Uganda and Uruguay.

The officials told the paper those embassies were chosen because ~ like the African embassies attacked
last summer — they are in older buildings lacking modern security.

Bin Laden has been indicted for the August bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that
killed 224 people.

The USA Today report said the six embassy attacks were prevented when U.S. intelligence agencies
used a reconnaissance satellite to monitor bin Laden's telephone calls and tipped off local officials, who
then arrested the people suspected of preparing to carry out the attacks.
— _

U.S. officials had said previously that attacks on two unnamed embassies had been thwarted.
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CIA Director George Tenet told a Senate subcommittee last month that he did not have "the slightest
doubt" bin Laden was planning more attacks against the United States.

A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press last week that the Saudi exile may have fled
Afghanistan after his hosts in the Taliban-led government turned on him by cutting off his telephone and
limiting his access to outsiders.

Abdul Hakeem Mujahid, a Taliban diplomat assigned to the United Nations, confirmed to State
Department officials Feb. 17 that bin Laden had fled the area in Afghanistan under Taliban control a few ;
days earlier.

Under one admittedly optimistic scenario, according to the U.S. official, bin Laden is on the run after his
Taliban hosts turned on him, disrupting presumed plans to renew terrorist attacks against Americans.

But the official, asking not to be identified, acknowledged that the administration has no idea of bin
Laden's whereabouts and lacks firm evidence that he even has left Afghanistan.

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After the March 11 bombings in Madrid that claimed 191 lives, interest in this week's antiterror
operation is high in Britain.

On Wednesday, The Evening Standard published photographs of two of the detainees, Omar
Khayam, 22, and his brother, Shujah, 17, both of Crawley, south of London.

The newspaper quoted a relative of the two saying that Omar Kayam had flown to Pakistan in
January 2000 for terrorism training after he was recruited by militants from a group known as Al
Muhajiroun.

But the relatives who gave interviews Wednesday denied any knowledge of terrorist plans by the
men, or any connection to the ammonium nitrate that the police confiscated.

32. Spanish Judge Issues Warrants For Six Bombing Suspects

Associated Press

Spain for the first time issued international arrest warrants Wednesday in the Madrid train
bombings, seeking six suspects in a widening probe into the worst terrorist attack in Spanish
history.

The names and photographs of the warrants for five Moroccans and a Tunisian were distributed
by the Interior Ministry. They included two brothers of Naima Oulad Akcha, the only woman
charged in the case so far, a court official said.

The warrants didn't specify countries of residence, a court official said, denying earlier reports
that they were sent specifically to Britain, Morocco and France.

Earlier a government official erroneously said that one of the warrants was for Abdelkrim Mejjati,
a 36-year-old Moroccan who was convicted in absentia in the deadly bombings in Casablanca
last year, which killed 33 people and 12 suicide bombers. Mr. Mejjati is wanted by the FBI in
connection with possible terrorist threats against the U.S.

Spanish police have 19 people in custody - 11 Moroccans or Moroccan-born Spaniards, two

Indians, two Spaniards and three Syrians. The nationality of one suspect, whose arrest was
announced Wednesday, wasn't released.

Fourteen of the suspects have been charged with mass murder or collaborating with or belonging
to a terrorist group.

Interior Minister Angel Acebes on Tuesday identified the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group as
the main focus of investigation in the March 11 bombings in Madrid, which killed 191 people and
injured more than 1,800 others. That extremist group is a forerunner of Salafia Jihadia, which
Morocco blamed for the Casablanca bombings.

At least five members of the Combatant group, including alleged leaders Nouredine Nfia and
Salahedine Benyaich, trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan between 1999 and 2001,
Moroccan officials said.

Spanish investigators have analyzed a videotape in which a man claiming to speak on behalf of al
Qaeda said the group carried out the Madrid attacks in reprisal for Spain's backing of the U.S.-led
war in Iraq.

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Spanish authorities issued international arrest warrants Wednesday for six fugitives in last month's train
bombings as the investigation focused on possible masterminds and recently arrested suspects believed
to have longtime ties to extremism here.

Judge Juan del Olmo issued the warrants for five Moroccans and a Tunisian implicated in the bombings
that killed 191 people March 11, court officials said. Three of the wanted men have relatives among the
21 detained suspects, whom police describe as a mix of hard-core extremists, recently recruited
criminals and members of three families.

Police have developed a detailed picture of the plot through interrogations as well as fingerprints and
other evidence found in a rural safe house outside Madrid where the planning and the assembly of the
bombs is believed to have taken place. The people already in custody are suspected of being top plotters,
several bombers and the alleged bomb maker, a Moroccan with a university degree in chemistry who
trained at an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, police say.

Most of the suspects are Moroccan, but arrests during the last week netted five of Syrian descent,
including two longtime associates of a Syrian-dominated Al Qaeda cell dismantled here in late 2001,
according to authorities and court documents. One is a relative of a businessman charged last year with
filming a 1997 "reconnaissance" video of the World Trade Center linked by police to the Sept. 11
attacks, said a high-ranking Spanish investigator who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of
the investigation.

Nonetheless, the question of who conceived and ordered the sophisticated train bombings still bedevils
investigators.

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DUSHANBE, June 27 (AFP) - Tajikistan somberly marked the five-year

x anniversary Thursday of the end of a brutal civil war that killed 150,000 people amid
warnings that the nation's unrelenting poverty threatens stability throughout Central
Asia.

"By signing the peace agreement five years ago, we saved our land from ruin, our
people from splintering and secured the integrity of our land," said Tajik President
Emomali Rakhmonov.

"But we are still far from guaranteeing stable supplies of food and electricity to the
people, or from lowering the level of poverty," he said.

The former Soviet republic, neighboring Afghanistan, erupted into civil war between
pro-Communist government forces and the Islamic opposition almost immediately
after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991.

Government troops withstood the resistance in battles that destroyed much of

southern and eastern Tajikistan, Rakhmonov signing a peace treaty with opposition
leader Said Abdullo Nuri in Moscow on June 27, 1997.

The agreement helped incorporate some 5,000 Islamic militants into Tajikistan's
standing army and police forces, as the country struggled to cope with the gangs of
heavily armed men who had overrun the once stable nation.

The government also enlisted some 11,000 Russian troops to guard its border with
civil war wracked Afghanistan, which has used Tajikistan as its main opium transit
line to Europe.

But Tajikistan still remains the former Soviet Union's poorest republic with limited
natural resource and chronic food shortages sparked in part by droughts.

Analysts estimate that the civil war caused some seven billion dollars in damage to
the economy, and to this day 80 percent of the country's 6.2 million people live in
poverty.

Worse, much of the country's intelligentsia fled the fighting and there are few
economic expert left who can help advise Rakhmonov on ways to conquer
Tajikistan's social ills, analysts say.

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This has included stream-lining judicial procedures to speed up the extradition of Eta suspects as
well as allowing Spanish anti-terrorist experts quick access to information.
Last year French police arrested more than 50 people linked to Eta, mainly in south-west and
central France. France also has some 127 Eta suspects in French prisons of whom 108 are of
Spanish nationality. The French judiciary is examining 76 extradition dossiers.

The most significant arrest came in December last year with the capture of two top members of
the military side of the organisation - Ibon Fernandez Iradi, known as "Susper", and Gorka
Palacios Alday.

They were picked up separately in the French Basque country, which has remained their main
source of logistical support since the days of the Franco dictatorship.

Eta has also forged links in the past with Breton nationalists and used them in 1999 to help steal
eight tonnes of explosives from a quarry in Brittany.

But this led French police to clamp down on Breton nationalists, forcing Eta to count less on this
link.

Only this week five French Basques stood trial for their implication in logistical support for the
theft, which was subsequently used for terrorist bombings in Spain.

French security authorities believe there are some 120 Eta activists still at large in France.
Most are thought to be providing logistical support for a small number of "military" members.

Police have often preferred to keep suspects under observation, moving to arrest when
convinced some act of terrorism is about to be committed.

It is for instance still unclear whether they were aware of January's meeting in Perpignan between
a leading member of Eta and Josep Llouis Carod-Rovira, the head of Esquerra Republicana, the
Catalan independence party who had just been appointed number two in the Catalan regional
government.

News of this meeting was leaked to the Spanish press causing an uproar in Spain.
Subsequent to the meeting, Eta also announced it had agreed a "truce" for the north-eastern
Spanish region of Catalonia.

15. US search for Qaeda turns to Algeria

BRYAN BENDER
Boston Globe

US special forces are hunting for Islamic militants linked to Al Qaeda along Algeria's southern
border with Mali in a little-known military operation aimed at destroying a key North African
recruiting hub for Osama bin Laden's global terrorist network, according to US and Algerian
officials.

Small teams of elite US soldiers have been working with local security forces in recent months in
the Sahara Desert in an effort to capture or kill members of the Salafist Group for Call and
Combat, a radical Islamic organization that has pledged its allegiance to Al Qaeda and is
suspected in terrorist plots in Europe and the United States, said the officials, who asked not to
be identified.

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 __. ^ sleveiraged
bis personal relationship with Putin to acquire
Russian assistance in fighting terrorists. The one
front on which Russia is allegedly engaged in di-
rectly battling terrorism—Chechnya—has been
a disaster. Terrorists there still operate; Russia is
no more secure today that it was when the war
reignited in 1999, and America's war against ter-
rorism is made no easier by Russia's brutal meth-
ods, which inspire recruits to the terrorist cause.
Bush can point to even fewer deliverables from
his relationship with Putin in the struggle to stop
tne same country, in dealing witn tne Soviets,
this meant the pursuit of arms control and demo-
cratic regime change in the Soviet bloc at the
same time. A similarly complex strategy for deal-
ing with Russia—and for that matter, Pakistan,
Iran, Egypt and Uzbekistan—is needed today.
Michael McFaul is a Hoover Fellow and
associate professor of political science at
Stanford University. His'latest book, with
James Goldgeier, is "Power and Purpose: U.S.
Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War."

reedZakaria

11 That's Left Is Violence

Does it matter whether the carnage in Madrid last ade. Basques run their own region (through a main-
ek was the act of the Basque terrorist organiza- stream, non-violent nationalist party), collect their
, ETA, or of al Qaeda? Of course there are impor- own taxes, have their own police, speak their own
nt differences. ETA is a local organization, al Qaeda language and broadcast their own television and ra-
i global one. The former is secular, the latter reli- dio programs. As a result support for ETA is down to
, But they have something in common that is re- 5 percent at most Support for its political sympathiz-
[ about the nature of terrorism. Both groups ers, the political party Batasuna, hovers under 10 per-
political agendas, but as their political causes cent. In fact support for Basque nationalism itself has
; lost steam, they are increasingly defined almost waned considerably. In the last election, 60 percent of
| exclusively by a macabre culture of violence. Basques voted for parties that did not espouse
"The purpose of terrorism," Vladimir Lenin once Basque nationalism.
, "is to terrorize." Like much of what he said, this It is in this context that ETA announced in 2000
| is wrong. Terrorism has traditionally been usedtoad-the "reactivation of armed struggle" after a 14-month
f vance political goals. That's why a rule of terrorists cease-fire. In the next two years it launched 87 bomb-
I used to be: "We want a few people dead and a lot of ings and assassinations, in which 38 people were
ipeople watching." Terrorists sought attention but killed. But because of effective police work by Spain
[ didn't want people to lose sympathy for their cause. and France, ETA's attacks dropped to 20 in 2002,
Yet with many terrorist groups—like ETA, like al with five deaths, and so far this year there have been
[ Qaeda—violence has become an end in itself. They 17 hits, in which three people were killed.
[ want a lot of people dead, period. In the past ETA hit only Spanish politicians, po-
Some in Spain have argued that if an Islamic group licemen and other symbols of Spanish rule. Now it
Lproves to be the culprit Spaniards will blame Prime targets civilians indiscriminately. In its region, it mur-
|Minister Jose Maria Aznar. It was his support for ders Basques who dare speak out against secession,
i and the war in Iraq that invited the wrath of firebombs bookstores and intimidates the press, cre-
i fundamentalists. But other recent targets of Is- ating a pervasive atmosphere of fear.
nic militants have been Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, "Violence has become ETA's main rationale," a for-
audi Arabia and Indonesia, not one of which sup- mer separatist who renounced ETA told the Financial
1 the war or sent troops into Iraq in the after- Times in 2002. "The exercise of violence creates anti-
ir. Al Qaeda's declaration of jihad had, as its first de- bodies. ETA's new recruits can digest barbaric acts
nd, the withdrawal of American troops from Saudi that would have been unthinkable under Franco: the
a. Osama bin Laden does not seem to have no- torturing of town councillors, the killing of children,
, but the troops are gone—yet the jihad contin- of traffic wardens and local policemen. ETA now is
i. The reasons come and go, the violence endures. led by its most extreme elements, those who are pre-
|The Middle East scholar Giles Keppel makes an pared to go furthest in all this senseless killing."
r between communist groups and Islamic fun- ETA's goal—the creation of a single Basque na-
ntalists. In the 1940s and 1950s, communist tion—is not as fantastical as is al Qaeda's dream of a
3 were popular and advanced their cause politi- restored caliphate. But given that part of the Basque
y. By the 1960s, after revelations about Joseph lands it wants to unify are in France, and none of the
' n's brutality, few believing communists were left French Basques have any interest in this plan, it is ut-
e. Facing irrelevance, the hardcore radicals terly unrealistic. The goals are now charades, excuses
! movement turned to violence, hoping to gain for bloodletting.
i and adherents by daring acts of bloodshed. Spanish authorities have estimated that the num-
s the proliferation of terror by groups such as the ber of ETA's hard-core activists is well under 100.
I Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Simi- Most estimates of serious al Qaeda operatives are in
Islamic fundamentalism tried for decades to the hundreds. Technology means that small numbers
| popular support andtopplethe regimes of the can still do great harm^-as last week's tragedy amply
~: East When this tactic failed, radicals like bin illustrates. But that should not obscure the reality
i turned to terrorism. that this violence is a sign of weakness.
JTA follows this pattern. Having been founded to That's why Friedrich Engels, a shrewder observer
t the brutal suppression of the Basques under than Vladimir Lenin, wrote to Karl Marx in 1870,
i Franco's reign, it has foundered as Spain "Terror is for the most part useless cruelties commit-
: democratic and provided the Basques with ted by frightened people to reassure themselves."
* levels of autonomy. Almost every demand
; nationalists has been met over the last dec- comments@fareedzakaria.com
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2 precisely what Kherchtou told you about al Fadl, where he too

3 claims credit for what happens in Somalia.

4 The last thing, ladies and gentlemen, the reason

5 Somalia is important, it establishes the link between Al Qaeda

6 and Nairobi. Remember what I said at the beginning. The

7 thing about this conspiracy and why it makes sense for us to

8 do this chronically, you see that events have a cause and

9 effect relationship. Because Al Qaeda wanted to target

10 Somalia, they decided they had to set up operations in

11 Nairobi. Once they set up operations in Nairobi, they have a

12 foundation in place that they are going to make use of five

13 years later to attack the embassies in East Africa.

14 What you know not only from Jamal al-Fadl and not

15 only from Kherchtou but from some of the documents that were

16 seized and the phone records and communications, it is that Al

17 Qaeda has offices all over the world. It is like a

18 multinational organization. It has hubs. It has headquarters

19 in Afghanistan. It has headquarters in Sudan. It has a hub

20 in Nairobi. It has a hub up here in Azerbaijan. We will go

21 through telephone calls with Al Qaeda people in Germany.

22 There were documents seized in England. But one of the key

23 hubs is going to be Nairobi. And of course if you are Al

24 Qaeda, you want to make sure that the people you have running

25 that hub are people you trust and people who will do what you

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1 need them to do, something that will play out as a very

2 important factor as we go through the evidence.

3 THE COURT: Is this a good time?

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6 I was saying was that the witness Kherchtou was the person who

7 had been sent to Nairobi to the base of operations, the new

8 base in Nairobi at the time that Al Qaeda was targeting the

9 American presence in Somalia. Kherchtou told you about two

10 people that he met when he first got to Nairobi. The first

11 was somebody who he knew by the name of Nawawi . We see

12 pictured here in Government's Exhibit 4-12. Nawawi ' s real

13 name is Ihab Ali, and you see a couple of his other nicknames,

14 Abu Suliman, and Joseph Kenana and Abu Jaffar al Tayar. He is

15 another person who lurks in the background as we go through

16 this chronology. He is somebody who is an Al Qaeda member,

17 and he is somebody who ends up in Florida and somebody who is (V ' ^<

18 going to be exchanging communications with Wadih El Hage,

19 communications that Wadih El Hage denied having any knowledge

20 of before the grand jury in September of 1998. We will talk

21 about those communications, but this is somebody that

22 Kherchtou told you he met in 1993 in Nairobi.

23 Another person who he met there is displayed in

24 Government's Exhibit 4-13. This was somebody he told you he

25 knew among other names as Abu Khalid al Nubi down at the

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2 also goes by the name Abu Jihad and Khalid. Khalid is a name

3 you will see in some of the documents that Wadih El Hage

4 brings back, documents that talk about the new policy that

5 Wadih El Hage brings back, to militarize the cell in East

6 Africa when he returns from his visit with Bin Laden in 1997.

7 You will see references to Khalid in some of those documents.

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BYLINE: Michael Scott Doran; MICHAEL SCOTT DORAN taught for three years at the University
of Central Florida and is now Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
He is the author of Pan-Arabism Before Nasser: Egyptian Power Politics and the Palestine
Question. This article is adapted from his chapter in How Did This Happen? Terrorism and
the New War, published by PublicAffairs and Foreign Affairs with the support of the
Council on Foreign Relations.

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Call it a city on four legs
heading for murder. . . .
New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.

-Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said], "The Funeral of New York," 1971

IN THE WEEKS after the attacks of September 11, Americans repeatedly asked, "Why do
they hate us?" To understand what happened, however, another question may be even more
pertinent: "Why do they want to provoke us?"

David Fromkin suggested the answer in Foreign Affairs back in 1975. "Terrorism," he
noted, "is violence used in order to create fear; but it is aimed at creating fear in
order that the fear, in turn, will lead somebody else
-- not the terrorist -- to embark on some quite different program of action that will
accomplish whatever it is that the terrorist really desires." When a terrorist kills, the
goal is not murder itself but something else -- for example, a police crackdown that will
create a rift between government and society that the terrorist can then exploit for
revolutionary purposes. Osama bin Laden sought -- and has received -- an international
military crackdown, one he wants to exploit for his particular brand of revolution.

Bin Laden produced a piece of high political theater he hoped would reach the audience
that concerned him the most: the umma, or universal Islamic community. The script was
obvious: America, cast as the villain, was supposed to use its military might like a
cartoon character trying to kill a fly with a shotgun. The media would see to it that any
use of force against the civilian population of Afghanistan was broadcast around the
world, and the umma would find it shocking how Americans nonchalantly caused Muslims to
suffer and die. The ensuing outrage would open a chasm between state and society in the
Middle East, and the governments allied with the West -- many of which are repressive,
corrupt, and illegitimate -- would find themselves adrift. It was to provoke such an
outcome that bin Laden broadcast his statement following the start of the military
campaign on October 7, in which he said, among other things, that the Americans and the
British "have divided the entire world into two regions -- one of faith, where there is no
hypocrisy, and another of infidelity, from which we hope God will protect us."
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(Canadian preferred to go to Afghanistan

Stewart Bell
National Post Wednesday, November 26, 2003
http://www.nationalpost.comyhome/story.html?id=84105AAE-86FD-480E-B482-B6146D58C78C
TORONTO - A Toronto man released by the U.S. military after being detained at Guantanamo Bay has
no desire to return to Canada and has not approached any Canadian embassies for kelp, government
officials said yesterday. Canadian officials said there was no truth to claims madg by the family of
Abdulrahman Khadr that the 20-year-old was desperate to get back to Canaday&ut had been turned away
by embassy staff in Pakistan and Turkey...But Reynald Doiron, a Foreign Affairs spokesman, said Mr.
Khadr could have returned to Canada upon his release from Guantanamo Bay if he had wanted to.
Instead, Mr. Khadr chose to go to Afghanistan, Mr. Doiron said, adding the Canadian embassies in
Islamabad and Ankara confirmed they had not heard from Mr. Khadr. Intelligence officials also claim to
possess confidential evidence indicating that Mr. Khadr does not wan/to return to Canada...
Mr. Khadr was born in Bahrain but is a Canadian citizen. He is the/Son of Egyptian-Canadian Ahmed
Said Khadr, considered by Canada's intelligence service to be close to Osama bin Laden. He was raised
in the Toronto area...According to a Canadian intelligence report released under the Access to
Information Act, Mr. Khadr "is suspected of having undergone training at al-Qaeda facilities." He was
arrested by the Northern Alliance rebels in Kabul in November, 2001 ...He was sent to Guantanamo Bay
in January, joining his younger brother Omar. Aside from the allegations of al-Qaeda training, there is
no evidence Mr. Khadr was directly involved in terrorisrn/but Omar allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in
Afghanistan, and his father is a wanted al-Qaeda figure.^
The Khadr family, particularly its patriarch, hasbeen,a longstanding concern for Canadian intelligence
investigators. Ahmed Khadr moved to Canada from/Egypt in the 1970s and later joined a Muslim
charity helping Afghan refugees. He went to Pakistan as regional director of the Ottawa-based Human
Concern International and opened refugee camps inat CSIS now says were used to aid Islamic fighters
waging holy war in Afghanistan. In 1995, he wag arrested in Pakistan on accusations he financed the
bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad; but he was released without charges after Jean
Chretien, the Prime Minister, raised the matte/with Benazir Bhutto, then the Pakistani leader. The
United Nations froze his assets in 2001 because of his alleged ties to bin Laden, and after the attacks of
Sept. 11, Canada ordered banks to seize any accounts linked to him. The RCMP has opened an
investigation into his activities but no charges have been announced...

EUROPE:

Islamist gave insight into workings of al-Qaeda

By Hugh Williamson in Berlin
Published: November 26 2003 17:31
The Financial Times (UK)
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pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=l 069493518148&p=l 012571727102
An Islamist militant who helped plan terrorist attacks on Jewish sites in Germany was given a relatively
mild prison sentence on Wednesday because he had provided evidence on the inner workings of al-
Qaeda. Shadi Abdallah, a 27-year-old Palestinian of Jordanian origin was sentenced to four years in
prison by a court in Dusseldorf, western Germany, less than half the maximum term often years.
Prosecutors had sought a five-year term. He was arrested as part of a round-up of mostly Palestinian
activists in Germany in April 2002, and later admitted that Berlin's Jewish museum and a Jewish bar in
Dusseldorf had been targets, although no attacks were mounted. He is one of the first Islamic militants
in trials in Germany or elsewhere to give evidence against former colleagues. Mr Abdallah would have
witness protection in prison and for the rest of his life, and would receive a new identity, court officials

12/3/2003
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i; ,, America's most wanted suspects held in Kenya

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Provincial
Business KIKAMBALA: A YEAR LATER

Africa 25 rounded up in expanded operation to bring embassy blast culprits to book

Sports
Commentaries Kenva has arrested about 25 key suspects of the American Embassy bombing in Nairobi
ago.
Editorial
Cartoon Internal Security Minister Chris Murungaru said yesterday that they were believed to have
masterminded the plot or participated in the actual bombing.

Obituaries They were in America's most wanted list, he said, but added that Kenya did not have plan
Horoscopes extradite
them to the UJx

"The total number of suspects exceeds 25. Some of them are in the international (US) Mo
list."

In an exclusive interview with the East African Standard, the minister would not release th
names or say where they are being detained.

The suspectSj most of them foreigners, and their alleged loca[coljaborators were _roundec
by Kenyan detectives and internationaTsecurity agehci
Murungaru said.

The suspects were being interrogated Jn~eonnectioo.wJtli.the August 1998 embassy blast,
the Paradise hotel bombing last year.

More than 200 Kenyans died and thousands more were wounded in the 1 998 incident.

A building adjacent to the embassy collapsed, killing most of its occupants. More people v
the neighbouring Co-operative Bank House, the US embassy building itself and other adje
buildings.

Charred bodies were found in commuter vehicles, private cars, telephone booths and on t
streets.

paying some of the suspect$Jiad_bgen arrested in Somalia, Murungaru added that the Gc
was working closely with influentiaTcomiaantes in tnat couniry because there was no gov<
place.

"This kind of an operation is usually carried with care and precision."

He said Kenya had made major gains in its war against terrorism, but added that it was irr
win the war without the support of the international community.

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 Page 8 of9

Saudis Say Militant Cell Raided, Attack Thwarted /

Reuters November 28, 2003
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-saudi28nov28,l,2737929.story
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Security forces found a pickup truck packed with more than a ton of
explosives when they raided a militant cell primed to launch a "terrorist operation" in Riyadh, Saudi
officials said Thursday. State television showed footage of the truck filled with the explosives, rocket-
propelled grenades and gas cylinders, apparently to magnify the force of any explosion. It was seized
after a clash Tuesday in which two wanted militants were killed. Officials said the raid by security
forces thwarted an imminent attack during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr...

Kenya Terror Suspects' Charges Reduced

Friday November 28, 2003 12:01 PM
By TOM MALITI Associated Press
http://www.guardian.co.Uk/worldlatest/story/0.1280.-3440115.00.html
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan authorities dropped murder charges against three terror suspects
Friday and instead charged them with conspiracy to commit a felony for their alleged roles in three al-
Qaida attacks and a foiled plot to destroy the U.S. Embassy.
Prosecutor John Gacivih said the charges against the three suspects - Said Saggar Ahmed, Salmin
Mohammed Khamis and Kubwa Mohammed Seif - were reduced because the case against them for
murder was not strong enough. They are charged in four cases: the bombing of a hotel on the Kenyan
coast last Nov. 28, which killed 15 people, including three Israeli tourists; a nearly simultaneous attempt
to shoot down an Israeli airliner; an alleged plot to destroy the new U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in June;
and the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, which killed 219 people, including 12
Americans. All three pleaded innocent to the new charges on Friday after being taken from the High
Court to a magistrate's court.

The foiled June plot to attack the U.S. Embassy with a car bomb and small aircraft was first revealed in
an Associated Press story last month. At least one of the suspects, Khamis, reportedly admitted taking
part in the plot to destroy the new embassy shortly after he was arrested in June. The evidence against
the other men was not immediately clear... The men were among nine originally charged in the hotel
bombing. Murder charges were also dropped against two other suspects - Faiz Abdalla Sharrif and
Mohammed Ali Hassan.
Gacivih had insisted there was enough evidence to convict all nine Kenyan suspects for murder, and the
pretrial statements detail a wealth of circumstantial evidence linking six of the suspects to the deadly
bombing...

ASIA/PACIFIC:

Terror threat or just joking

By CHARLES MIRANDA
November 28, 2003 The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story .jsp?sectionid=1260&storyid=553432
A SUPERMARKET shelf packer says he faces jail after a raid on his home by counter terrorism police
found a rifle and material allegedly prejudicial to national security. Zeky "Zak" Mallah was at his
Condell Park home cleaning his rifle moments before the raid by Australian Federal Police agents and
members of the NSW Counter Terrorism Coordination Command. The authorities spent more than three
hours searching the small bedsit home and a car and interviewing the 20-year-old man. Mr Mallah, now
unemployed, was fined $1400 for possession of the .22 calibre weapon last month but says he has been
told he will now face the District Court because authorities believe he is a security risk. The Australian-
born Muslim has been linked by ASIO to the Lakemba-based extremist Islamic Youth Movement. He

12/3/2003
Crisis Summary Page 1 of2

Internationa! Crisis Behavior Projec

, • Project information
US Embassy Bombings
;" Data Collections

Saftewnw** Publications Between 7 and 20 August 1998, a crisis occurred, pitting the US against both Afghanistan
'if< and Sudan.

Background

Osama bin Laden, a rich Saudi dissident, helped build and lead a militant Islamic network,
known as al-Qaeda. Bin Laden and his network had a history of specifically targeting and
threatening US and other Western interests, over resentment for the support of Israel and
pro-West regimes such as that in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden helped bring the Taliban to
power in Afghanistan, and the Taliban, in turn, allowed him to use Afghan territory for
training and building his network. His network also maintained a presence in other
predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, such as Sudan.

Crisis

On 7 August 1998, powerful bomb explosions occurred, almost simultaneously, near the
US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salarn, Tanzania. This triggered a crisis for the
United States. It also triggered a crisis for Afghanistan, which was blamed for harboring
Osama bin Laden, who was held responsible for orchestrating the attacks.

Over 200 people, mostly Kenyan nationals, were killed in the bombings; over 5000 were
injured. Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, based in Afghanistan, was blamed for being
responsible for the attacks. US President Bill Clinton was joined by world leaders in
condemning the attacks on the two embassies. The US government demanded that Osama
bin Laden be handing over to them by the Afghan Taliban regime.

On 19 August, Taliban chief Mullah Mohamed Omar said that the Taliban would protect
bin Laden at all costs and would not hand him over to the US government. Following this,
on 20 August, the US launched air strikes against targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. This
triggered a crisis for Sudan. The two attacks focused on an alleged training base for
terrorists about 100 miles south of Kabul, Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory
capable of producing chemical weapons in Khartoum, Sudan. The Taliban claimed that
about 15 people were killed in the air strikes; seven people were reportedly killed in the
Khartoum strike.

http://www.icbnet.org/Data/Summaries/427_us_embassy_bombings.html 12/4/2003
2. AI-Qaida terrorists to gas U.S. subways?

PAUL SPERRY
World Net Daily
AI-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas
through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a
closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily.

"AI-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland," says
the internal warning. "Terrorists have designed a crude chemical dispersal device fabricated from
commonly available materials, which is designed to asphyxiate its victims."

Marked "For Official Use Only," the five-page memo issued Friday says the device produces
cyanogen chloride gas and hydrogen cyanide gas, and can be placed near air intakes or
ventilation systems in crowded open spaces or enclosed spaces.

"These gases are most effective when released in confined spaces such as subways, buildings or
other crowded indoor facilities," adds the Homeland Security memo, which was distributed to
federal agencies in anticipation of possible al-Qaida attacks around the end of the Muslim holiday
Ramadan, which happens to coincide with Thanksgiving and the start of the regular holiday
season.

Citing "recent information" from al-Qaida sources, the directive also warns of possible car-
bombings in America, as first reported yesterday by WorldNetDaily, and advises security officials
to take code-red protective measures to guard government buildings and gas and other chemical
plants.

"AI-Qaida continues to plan attacks against U.S. targets," the memo asserts.

Despite the high-threat measures, the administration has decided to keep the public terror-threat
alert at yellow, or elevated. Phone calls to Homeland Security were not returned.

Experts in chemical weapons say al-Qaida is known to have sought a weapon to pump cyanide
gas into ventilation systems.
\a has shown an
director of nonproliferation studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. /

She cites Ahmed Ressam, the terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International \t during the mille

cyanide at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan. /

"His terrorist masters also taught him how to introduce cyanide gas into public ventilation systems I
in order to affect the maximum number of victims, while minimizing the risk to the perpetrator," /
Sands said. /
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She also points to the nine al-Qaida-tied Moroccans arrested last year in Rome. They allegedly
were planning to poison the water supply of the U.S. embassy with potassium ferrocyanide.

"AI-Qaida has shown a continued interest in targeting subways, rail systems, dams and water
facilities" in America, the Homeland Security memo warns.

Noting the recent "sophisticated" car-bombings in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, it adds that the terror
group may use "novel methods" to pull off such attacks in America, including disguising suicide
bombers as women.

PRESS CLIPS FOR NOVEMBER 26, 2003

4. Al Qaeda Seen Shifting to Terror Consultant' Role
Reuters

Emerging details of last week's Istanbul suicide bombings support the idea that al Qaeda is
becoming more of a terror "consultancy" and less of a direct actor, security analysts say.

Most see al Qaeda's hand behind the car bombs that blew up two synagogues, the British
consulate and the offices of British-based banking group HSBC, even if Turkish Prime Minister
Tayyip Erdogan has cautioned that the link is not yet proven.

The car bombers were all Turks from the small southeast town of Bingol, known as a
fundamentalist center, and Erdogan said they had global connections. Local people and media
reports said three had attended al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.

Experts said this fits a pattern of attacks since Sept. 11 in which al Qaeda's core operatives have
increasingly played a background role: supplying know-how, and possibly finance, but leaving it
to local actors to carry out individual missions.

NEW GENERATION

"Al Qaeda has moved to a 'second generation' of structures and operational capability," said
David Claridge, managing director of Janusian Security Risk Management in London.

"There clearly is some remaining (organizational) core, but that core is no longer involved in
operations at the sharp end."

Analysts offer competing metaphors to describe the modus operand! of al Qaeda since late 2001,
when U.S. forces drove it from its Afghan bases and captured or killed key leaders as President
Bush launched his war on terror.

Some see it as an international terror "university" or consultancy; others liken it to a franchising

operation, endorsing approved operations around the world with the cachet of its feared global
"brand."

"The old, damaged military organization of al Qaeda has undergone a transformation to terror
sponsor. That means Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri (his deputy) and others are more
active today in the sense of franchising terrorism," said Berndt Georg Thamm, a German writer
on security issues.

This meant local groups could tap into Qaeda's expertise to make contacts with like-minded
networks and "order up" logistical support, financial help and advice on how to prepare and
transport explosives.

"The re-organized al Qaeda consists of a very loose network of about 30 violent Islamist groups
which are spread over the whole Muslim world," Thamm said.

"The network today is more virulent, essentially harder to grasp hold of and a lot harder to
combat than a quasi-military terror group that is based in a single place."

Some experts believe the obsession of Western media and public opinion with al Qaeda and
Osama bin Laden obscures the fact they have inspired a much wider global Islamist cause,
dedicated to the waging of jihad (holy war).

BIN LADEN AS SYMBOL

PRESS CLIPS FOR NOVEMBER 25, 2003

"The inadequacy of codes to ensure safety of persons in high-rise buildings became glaringly
apparent on 9-11," said Regenhard, a New Yorker whose son Christian was among the 343
firefighters killed.

Regenhard also noted that new construction at the World Trade Center site, like the twin towers,
could be exempt from city building codes because its owner is the bistate Port Authority.

Authority officials have said they intend to make sure the new buildings meet or exceed building
and fire codes.

3. Experts See Major Shift in Al Qaeda's Strategy

SEBASTIAN ROTELLA and RICHARD C. PADDOCK
LA Times

A spate of suicide bombings in several countries illustrates that Al Qaeda has survived by
mutating into a more decentralized network relying on local allies to launch more frequent attacks
on varied targets, experts say.

In bombings from Turkey to Morocco, experts say, evidence suggests that Al Qaeda provided
support through training, financing or ideological inspiration to local extremists. Through an
evolving and loose alliance of semiautonomous terrorist cells, the network has been able to
export its violence and "brand name" with only limited involvement in the attacks themselves.

"Al Qaeda as an ideology is now stronger than Al Qaeda as an organization," said Mustafa Alani
of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London. "What we are
witnessing now is a major shift in Al Qaeda's strategy. I believe it is successful. Now they are not
on the defensive. They are on the offensive."

A U.S.-led assault on Al Qaeda has left many of the network's leaders dead, in jail or on the run.
Still, counter-terrorism officials have linked Al Qaeda or its followers to a drumbeat of attacks in
Russia, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and the Philippines, dating back to spring.
Intent on maximizing the propaganda impact of its actions, the network has shifted from a single-
minded focus on American interests to a broader mix including Jewish and Muslim targets.

Al Qaeda allegedly gave the direct order for some of the attacks, investigators say, including one
in Indonesia and the May bombing of a residential compound in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian
capital. But in others, its local affiliates appeared to have operated more independently. The May
suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, are seen as a model of the network's emerging
strategy.

U.S. and Iraqi authorities say several suicide car bombings — at an Italian military police base
last week and at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross and three
Baghdad police stations in late October — were the work of foreign Islamic extremists affiliated
with Al Qaeda.

There is growing debate about who is responsible for attacks in Iraq. An array of insurgents,
including forces loyal to former President Saddam Hussein, seek to end the U.S.-led occupation.
Insurgents have hit a variety of targets — from the United Nations headquarters to the Jordanian
Embassy.

U.S. authorities say about 2,000 Islamic fighters from as far away as Sudan, Algeria and
Afghanistan are playing a more prominent role in the insurgency and probably are teaming up
with Hussein loyalists.

PRESS CLIPS FOR NOVEMBER 19, 2003

INTELLIGENCE
Analysts See Terrorism Paradox: A WmkerAl (JaetfaDespite Attacks
By OOUGLAS JEHL
and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
'WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 — The re-
cent surge in terrorist strikes on
"soft targets" like consulates, banks
ait'd synagogues in places like Tur-
key and Saudi, Arabia is worrying,
but paradoxically reflects progress
by the United States and Europe in
disrupting Al Qaeda, especially its
leadership structure, American and
European intelligence officials said
Friday.
'"We continue to disrupt Al Qa-
eda's activities and capture more of
their leaders, but the attacks are
escalating," a senior counterterror-
ism official in Europe said. "This is a
very bad sign. There,are fewer lead-
ers but more follower!."
The officials said they regard Al
Qaeda as less capable than before of
striking at American embassies, mil-
itary targets and landmarks that
were the hallmarks of \ts campaign
before the Sept, 11 attacks.
-'But the terrorist threat has
evolved, they said, into a much
broader, more diffuse phenomenon
than before, with a new'strategy of
attacks by loosely affiliated groups
against highly vulnerable targets.
i The shift to softer targets does not
make Al Qaeda and its followers any
less dangerous, th£ officials cau-
Douglas JeHI reported for this article
from Washington and Don Van Natta
Jr. from London.
tioned. Thejt said there is deep con-
cerji here and in Europe that the
United Statesiand its allies are facing
more — not fewer — terrorist foes
than before. Tr(e killing and captur-
ing of Al Qaeda leaders is failing,
they said, to keep pace with the num-
ber of angry young Muslim men and
women willing to participate in sui-
cide attacks. , capturing, killing or deterring and
"It's inevitable*that when you step
on the anthill, th^fe are going to be
plenty of ants commg out the side," a
senior American olficial said.
In a classified wlrning to law en-
forcement agenciei late Thursday,
the United States reiterated its con-
cern about Al Qaaia's "continued
desire to plot or pwi terrorist at-
tacks with an emphasis on U.S. inter-
ests abroad," federall|fficials said.
The State Departifcit issued a
new global terror warning Friday,
saying that it saw "infeasing indi-
cations" that Al Qaeda fclanning to
strike American interests abroad. It
also said that it could not rule out
another Qaeda attack within the
United States, one "mor^ devastat-
ing" than the Sept. 11 attacks. ,
Intelligence and counterterrdftem
officials in Europe said Friday ithat
several recent attacks, in Istanbul
and Jakarta, were engineered by
groups affiliated with Al Qaeda, not
by Al Qaeda Itself. Several officials
said this 'suggests that Al Qa|da
might no longer have the capacity to
organize attacks and has insteaqbe-
come an inspiration to new and exist-
ing groups with similar gd|13 and
ideology.
"Al Qaeda, as suj&, is ti
trying to survive rigftt now,
senior intelligence official b a e d
Europe. "Al Qaeda Anore
brain dead. I don't jpfnk thi
extremely efficient a|,plannii
coordinating new attacks."
Intelligence ofncic
see fewer leader^
more followers, in
escalating attacl
Despite that cause for op
the intelligence officials saii
are troubled by evidence suggi
that more young militant
becoming terrorists than ever
fore. The men are joining g:
inspired by the occupation of
and the exhortations to fight by
ma bin Laden, who is seen as a
to many disaffected Muslims.
"These people have found a
motivation with the,aggression of
United States, against the brethrei
an Arab country," One official si
"If you follow what is being said
the Web sites and by otjier gro'
with similar goals to Al fjaeda, ties icurring within five minutes and a
r,are all trying to ride the wave and
jkrying to raise new recruits through
Jihis motivation. And it's working."
'">• In a private memorandum to asso-
ic|ates last month, in which he
Warned of a "long, hard slog" ahead
liinl the war on terrorism, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
"raised similar concerns. "Are we
disjjsuading more terrorists every
day than the madrasas and the radi-
cal clerics are recruiting, training
Via deploying against us?"
I.Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-
Front, also known as IBDA-C, is the
Turkish terrorist organization that
claimed responsibility for Thurs-
day's attacks against the British
Consulate and HSBC bank in Istan-
bul. The gfoup, founded in the mid-
70's, is a viqlent opponent of Turkey's
secular government and its ties to
the Europ^ui Union and the West.
Several .senior counterterrorism
officials in Europe, however, said
that they are uncertain that the
group has strong ties to Al Qaeda.
One intelligence chief said that Al
Qaeda dolpnot usually time its at*
tacks to *-obincide with political
events, s$t$e suicide bombers on
Thursday*seemed to do,in striking
British targets during President
Bush's stale visit to Bptain.
But a senior Jfcuntetferrorism offi-
cial took exception to that assess-
ment, sayir^g that the coordinated
nature of the suicide Bombings, oc-
few miles of each other in Istanbul on
Thursday, was the hallmark of an
Qaeda terrorist operation.
Senior counterterrorism officials
in Europe and the Middle East have
grown increasingly concerned that
smaller, harder-to-detect groups
with loose ties to Al Qaeda, or even
independent of it, have struck soft
targets all over Europe. The trend
was first seen in the early months of
2002, with attacks by local groups
with loose Al Qaeda affiliations in
Pakistarf and Tunisia. The authori-
ties alsoj broke up attacks planned
against United States military and
diplomatic targets in Bosnia, Italy
and Morocco.
*al officials have insisted that
much more concerned with
Kist groups in North Africa
tern Europe than with the
hit) of Al Qaeda. The groups
are4ctivcly recruiting young men,
whfdwer^ not necessarily trained in
Qapda camps in Afghanistan, the of-
ficials said.
>"A1 Qaeda is not my main head-
ache," a senior official said. "The
spontaneous g'roups that are sprout-
ing up fiom the northern African
community based in Europe, and go-
ing down the path of jihad, ;are what
I'm most worried about. They are
inspired by bin Laden, but this is not
Al Qaeda. They ar« not there yet —
they are not necessarily even ready
to launch attotcfcs — but these groups
are raising the next generation of
terrorists."
 THE WASHINGTON POST WORLD
lapiniiiii •• i

Terrorism Inc.
^Al Qaeda Franchises Brand'of"Violence to Groups Across World
f By DOUGLAS FABAH > TOT expert, said that the growth in to al Qaeda.
'* AND PSTEK FINN " i among terrorist For example, he said, Jemaah 1s-
. Washington Post Staff Writers 'groups was partly "a matter of the lamiah seeks to create a pan-
groups maturing" and partly be- Islamic state in Asia, an agenda
Leaders of the al Qaeda terrorist cause "we were able to hammer al that has little to do with driving
network have franchised their or- Qaeda, which pushed the locus of U.S. forces out of Saudi Arabia or
ganization's brand of synchro- activity elsewhere." other goals of bin Laden's. "They
^nized, devastating violence to One of bin Laden's major contri- Kke to get advice and equipment
- homegrown terrorist groups butions to the spread of terrorism, from al Qaeda but still have their
> across the world, posing a formida- Pillar said, was "putting the anti- own political agenda," Pillsbury ar-
|; ble new challenge to counterterror- American perspective at the fore- gued.
,'ism forces, according to intelli- front. It has been so successful that The evolution of terror methods
, gence analysts and experts in the it has thoroughly affected even has prompted a debate within the
United States, Europe and the these groups that are more region- intelligence community over the
^ Arab world. ally focused Anti-Americanism best tactics to pursue, knowledge-
The recent attacks in Turkey, sells, particularly in the Middle able officials said. One option
" Arabia, Chechnya and Iraq East" . would be to focus on destroying al
show that the smaller organiza- Another CIA official said, how- Qaeda in an effort to wither the
. tions, most of whose leaders were ever, that "making an enemy of the franchises. The other would be to
? trained in al Qaeda camps in Af- United States is not a wise career devote almost equal attention to
»ghanistan, have fanned out, im- move," and that the United States destroying the smaller, regional
I bued with radical ideology and the had prevented some groups from groups, a strategy Pillsbury said
means to create or revitalize local executing terrorist attacks through would be more politically sensitive
terrorist groups. They also are ex- intimidation. and would require broader intelli-
panding the horizons of groups Most terrorism experts, includ- gence.
that had focused on regional is- ing U.S. and European intelligence "If they can make an instrument
^sues. analysts, said they also were seeing of local groups, it will make up for
^ With most of its senior leader- new similarities in the groups' the losses al Qaeda has suffered,"
"" ship killed or captured and its fi- communication techniques and the said Margret Johannsen, a political
. nancial structure under increasing use of explosives. scientist who studies terrorism at
5, scrutiny,X)sama bin Laden's net- For example, officials said, al Hamburg University. They won't
;, work, riow run largely by midlevel Qaeda members have taught indi- need international financing, they
operates, relies increasingly on viduals from other groups how to won't need a base as hi Afghani-
„ these groups to carry out the jihad, use the Internet to send messages stan, f Al Qaeda becomes] an idea, 4)
i or holy war, against the United and how to encrypt those commu- a banne^ and that is very danger-
-, States and its aJBes. Al Qaeda has nications to avoid detection. Bomb ous."
'"turned to inspiring and instigating and chemical-making techniques
'such attacks. have been passed around. Investi- Finn reported from Berlin* Staff
!*; One senior U.S. official said al gators have found the same kind of writers Dana Priest and Dan 5)
v Qaeda's children were "growing up fuse being used on different conti- Eggen and research editor
f and moving out into the world, loy- nents. Margot Williams contributed to
al to their parents but no longer re- "People noticed a flow of ideas," this report.
liant on them." said one government terrorism ex-
i,. Intelligence officials and ana- pert. "One group will pioneer a cer-
" lysts said the evolution posed new tain kind of fuse and transfer it
-1- challenges to efforts to combat ter- around."
ror, because rather than facing a The financial structure of terror-
. few defined, recognized targets, ism also has shifted, officials said.
countertenor forces had to con- •"There is no pool of money now
front dozens of small groups that that everyone can draw on," said a
"* were much more difficult to trace senior U.S. official. "There is no
and attack. And, they said, knock- longer a fairly knowable group of
ing out me" small group does hot large donors or entities. Now,
have j^e same crippling effect as groups in Indonesia raise, money
down a major leader of a there. Groups in Malaysia raise
; organization. money there. There are many
"The threat has moved beyond more targets, and muchjurdpr to
. al Qaeda," said Rohan Gunaratna, find." 4.~ .
terrorism expert at the Singa- Many of the local groups, unable
Institute of Defense to draw on the web of organiza-
Strategic Studies, "While al tions and donors that have sup-
i the instigator of recent ported al, Qaeda, rely on petty
^ very few have actually crime, drug trafficking and extof-
» been carried out by al Qaeda." tion to pay the bub, intelligence of-
ficials said. Because the groups are
hitting softer targets in attacks
that require less sophistication to
ia—appear, to be the wonKof carry out, money is not a major ob-
Qaeda, few offierTCcent strike^*" stade, the officials Midt
 Page 7 of9

pub. He was so proud of a new three-piece suite he bought for his council house that he invited friends
in to sit on it. His only hint of political commitment was two trips to anti-war marches in London. When
he left last month, he told friends he was flying to Dubai because he was tired of racist neighbours
dumping rubbish through his letter-box. "We'll meet again," he tearfully told his tae kwon do coach,
Andy Hill, who had signed his passport application and recommended him for the British Olympic
Squad.

But Abdelrahman was also well trained. He studied computers and was praised as a martial arts don. He
ran a tae kwon do club in the annex to his local mosque, called Goodwill, packing sermons into his
punches. The mosque grandees saw Abdelrahman as a star attraction, handy for keeping local youths off
drugs and the streets. They said he was following in the tradition of "Prince" Naseem Hamed, the
boxing champion and local hero who built the mosque.

Should the police have been more suspicious? Some draw comparisons to the Finsbury Park mosque of
Abu Hamza, an Egyptian veteran of the Afghan jihad, which housed a martial clubs in the basement
until the security forces raided the premises. And Sheffield has a record of jihadi activity. Abdelrahman
arrived shortly after another asylum-seeker and Afghan jihad veteran in Sheffield, Lamine Maroni, was
caught plotting to blow up a Christmas market in Strasbourg. Only after Abdelrahman had flown did the
security forces search his house, arrest four of his students on terrorism charges and interrogate
colleagues. Before that, friends say, the authorities had approved his asylum application and issued
travel papers.

Worrying stuff. Yet, in comparison to earlier jihads, the British deployment to Iraq has been a bit of a
let-down...The growing zeal of the British security forces and waning enthusiasm from British Muslims
could be to blame. But jihadis say there is a more important factor: the supply of bombers exceeds
demand, and British bombers are too expensive. "For the cost of equipping and transporting a British
fighter into Iraq—about $2,000—we can shift 20 guerrillas into Iraq from neighbouring Arab states and
Chechnya," says a retired jihadi field officer. Arabs, he says, are also less likely to have visa problems.
Yemenis, like Wail, need no visa to enter Syria, although, according to the retired jihadi, at least one
Arab embassy is doing its best to accommodate by issuing passports to other nationals willing to thwart
America's war in Iraq.

MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA:

SHOW: FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME (18:20)

November 20, 2003 Thursday
Transcript # 112003cb.254
Analysis with Brit Hume, Mansoor Ijaz

HUME: One of the continuing mysteries of the war on terror is the whereabouts of Usama bin Laden.
One person with extensive contacts in his — in that part of the world, including sources within
intelligence agencies in various nations is Fox News foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz, who joins us
tonight from London with information that may provide some answers. Mansoor, welcome. What have
you found?

MANSOOR IJAZ, FOX NEWS FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST: Well, Brit, tonight I can report from
my intelligence sources, I consider unimpeachable intelligence sources, that we have eyewitness
accounts that both Usama bin Laden, in a modified, disguised form, as well as Ayman al-Zawahiri, the
number two in al Qaeda, are, in fact, in Iran. They were sighted there. Bin Laden was sighted there in
July of this year. You will remember that when President Pervez Musharraf came to Washington on his
state visit, he said without any hesitation that he had sent his own army into the northern tribal areas to

11/23/2003
The official said that about one-quarter of the victims were children. Many of the compound's
adult residents were out shopping late at night during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when
Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, and many go out after dark for an evening feast and shopping.
A Saudi official said the attack may have resulted from "poor reconnaissance," as the bombers
could have thought Muhaya housed more Americans and other Westerners.
Saudi media reported extensive damage to homes in Muhaya, with windows shattered for blocks
around the compound. Local television aired pictures of fires raging in parts of the compound.
"A huge explosion blew out the windows. I saw a lot of people injured and I believe there were a
lot of people dead," Bassem Hirani, a resident of Muhaya, told al-Arabiya, an Arabic-language
television network based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Hiranj/said only a small
percentage of the roughly 200 houses in Muhaya were occupied by/Westerners.
/'
/
The bombing occurred just hours after the British Embassy in neighboring Bahrain warned its
citizens of possible terrorist attacks against Western targets. /We judge that there is a high threat
from terrorism against Western, including British, targets, vye are particularly concerned about
potential threats to places where Westerners might gather," the embassy said in a statement
posted on its Web site. /
/'
"You should review your security arrangements carefully. You should remain vigilant, particularly
in public places," the statement added. /
Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf that iVfinked to Saudi Arabia by a causeway, has long
served as the headquarters for the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
Britain did not close its diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia, but urged its citizens there to be
vigilant and "to assess that the threat from terrorism is particularly serious at this time and that
terrorists may be in the final phases of planning attacks in the kingdom."

17. Iraq Seen as Al Qaeda's Top Battlefield /-j* ~<y'••*-

RICHARD C. PADDOCK, ALISSA RUBIN, and GREG MILLER

LA Times

Answering Osama bin Laden's call for holy war in Iraq, hundreds of followers from at least eight
nations have entered the country and are playing a major role in attacking Western targets and
Iraqi civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.

Operatives of the Al Qaeda terrorist network and affiliated extremist groups are collaborating with
Saddam Hussein loyalists, officials say, forming an array of shadowy alliances that are emerging
as one of the biggest challenges to U.S.-led efforts to bring stability to the war-torn country.

Some officials believe that Iraq is replacing Afghanistan as the global center of Islamic jihad and
becoming the prime locale for extremist Muslim fighters who are eager to confront Americans on
Arab soil.

As many as 2,000 Muslim fighters from as far as Sudan, Algeria and Afghanistan are operating in
Iraq, officials say. Ansar al Islam, an Iraqi group that was previously active in northern Iraq, also
has made a comeback, officials say. The Bush administration says Ansar has ties to Al Qaeda.

Although many of the foreign militants likely operate in small cells independent of any central
command, others appear to have hooked up with Hussein loyalists who provide money, materiel
and logistical support. In exchange, the foreigners provide suicide bombers and experience in

PRESS CLIPS FOR NOVEMBER 8-10, 2003 21

Kenya Terrufists,
*w^. *si-n~vt K/
By MARC LAC&9 BBTSSHSSSHS it remains relatively easy to obtain
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 5 — The surface-to-air missiles and import
terrorists who attacked an Israeli them to Somalia"
resort and an airliner along the Ke- According to the report, the Mom-
nyan coast last November posed as basa terrorists smuggled the mis-
lobstermen while they smuggled siles and the launchers by boat from
missiles and other weapons from So- Somalia to Kenya in August 2002,
malia aboard a wooden boat, accord- several months before the attack.
ing to a United Nations report. The missiles had been manufactured
The report, a detailed study of the in the Soviet Union in 1978 and sold to
arms flow into Somalia, was deliv- Yemen in 1994 The launchers origi-
ered to the United Nations Sanctions nated in Bulgaria in 1993 and were
Committee this week, but has not yet sold to Yemen that year.
been made public. It provides the Four separate groups took part in
most comprehensive look to date at the Mombasa attack, the experts
the attacks, linked to Al Qaeda, that found. One cell remained in Mogadi-
killed 12 Kenyans, 3 Israelis and at shu, Somalia, another attacked the
least 2 suicide bombers at a hotel full hotel while a third went to the Mom-
of Israeli tourists in Mombasa, Ken- basa airport. A fourth group went to
Tbe New York Times Lamu, an island off the Kenyan
ya. An attack against an airliner
carrying Israelis home failed when A Mombasa hotel filled with Is- coast, to prepare a getaway boat.
the missiles missed their target. raelis Was attacked last November. , On Nov. 29, the day after the at-
The study describes how the ter- tacks, those who survived regrouped
rorists, prepared for more than a port concluded that the missiles, the in Lamu and left two days later for
year for the Nov. 28,2002, attacks. In launchers and probably the explo- Somalia by dhow, the traditional
their pose as fishermen, they con- wooden boats in abundance along the
ducted surveillance for months along sives used all entered Somalia in
violation of an arms embargo im-
coast
the coastline, becoming familiar fig- The attackers remained in Moga-
ures who raised no suspicions when posed by the Security Council in 1992. dishu for several months, living on
they later turned to weapons smug- Somalia, which has a long, largely cash allowances provided by an unid-
gling. unpatrolled coastline, has been with- dentified Sudanese financier, the re-
The SA-7B missiles used in the out a central government since 1991. port said.
Mombasa attack came either from "Due to violations of the arms The report said the terrorists in-
Yemen, a major source of smuggled embargo, transnational terrorists cluded Fazul Abdullah Muhammad,
arms in Somalia, or Eritrea, which have been able to obtain not only a native of Comoros whom American
had made an arms shipment to one small arms but also man-portable investigators believe was behind the
of the major Somali warlords in 1998, air defense systems, light antitank bombings of the American embas-
according to the study. weapons and explosives," the report in N a t r o W v T a n z a n t . that
The experts who compiled the re- said. "The panel has determined that
 v A woman is comforted by relatives during the 22, one of the victims of Thursday's bomMBgHijjft »B the British Consume m isuiiu..... -

Al Qaeda GiwjirClaims Turkey Attacks

| As Istanbul Falls Silent, Bombing Probe Focuses on Turk&With Ties to Radicals
I ByMoi&x MOORE more subdued dramas. Some of Istanbul's most ish, and one had traveled to Iran for training, po-
f Washington Post Foreign Sen popular bars and night dubs announced they lice officials have said.
were closing for the weekend, and the country's A statement carried on the al-Mujahidoun Web
* ISTANBUL, Nov. 21—An organization with stock market remained shuttered. site, which has posted other purported announce-
I |tiesto al Qaeda asserted responsibility Friday for They say there wffl be more explosions, ments from al Qaeda, said the Abu Hafs al-Masri
f suicide bombings on Thursday at the British Con- Halil Ipek, 22, who sells Turkish desserts in Brigades organized Thursday's attacks. The
s' sulate and a British bank that killed 30 people and upscale Akmerkez shopping mall but whose only *8 authenticity could not be verified, but the
f injured 450, according to a statement posted on a customers Friday afternoon were other mall em- said the group struck British targets to
f Web site. The same organization said It attacked ployees. "I still worry that I will leave home in the Sttpeeof Britain . . . which battles Is-
' two synagogues here last Saturday, morning and I wont come back in the evening." lam." ft said tfie HSBC bank was attacked to "let
i Turkish authorities announced the arrest of The multi-level mall, located in an affluent Britain and its people kncwtthat its affiance with
T several people in connection with the attacks neighborhood several miles from any of the America will not bjingjt prosperity or security."
| against the two British targets. Security sources bombing sites, is the type of Western-style loca- It also saidfhat the British conaff general, Rog-
f told Turkish newspapers that the probes into all tipn the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the Turfejsh cap- er Short, had been specifically targeted. Short, 58,
1 four bombings are focusing, in part, on Turkish ital, has warned Americans to avoid. There are had passed through the consulate gates into its
" men whofoughtor trained with Islamic guerrillas hardly any customers," Ipek said "Yesterday it walled compound about two minutes before a
was completely empty. Ws closed down early and green Isuzu truck barreled through the entry way
| 'm'^^^^ifiuT)i^^^ n;Jth militant organi-went home." ' "• and exploded, killing Short and an assistant, Brit-
* zations. ^*Mi^P ,
' iposed over hor- ish officials said.
-.-- ~^^^B<B* .. _ • _ . - . r _
n

» The Istanbul Health Directorate rific Straw, speaking to reporters after touring the
* deaths of three more victims of Thursday's Friday morning, said the at-
* We bombing, bringing the death toll to 30, plus confusion of many Turks. ^Why us?
; the two bombers. Health officials said 54 of the "9/11 repeated in Istanbul," said the Turkish Dai- they had
I wounded remained hospitalized. ly News, an English-language newspaper. "Al Straw said.
i The nerves of an entire city seemed ragged Fri- Qaeda is at war with Turkey," declared Radikal, a Straw said the attacks appeared "to be per-
| day, as residents wrestled with the fear and be- Turkishdafly. petrated by al Qaeda and its associates."
I wilderment caused by^Dombings that ravaged Turkey's National Security Council, meeting as The Web site message said the Abu Hafs al-
four neighborhoods, killed 57 people and injured intelligence services warned of the potential for Masri Brigades regretted the large number of ci-
about'750-—all in the space of six days. more attacks, said in a statement, "It is necessary vilian casualties, which it alleged were caused by
Many schools reported that most parents had to increase regional and global cooperationtocar- an improperly positioned "car of death." AH but
kept their^children home, glitzy Western-style ry on a more active fight against terrorism in the three of the victims who died were Turkish Mus-
shopping malls were nearly devoid of customers, international field." lims.
andresidents who ventured along famous Istiklal Both President Bush and British Foreign S§c- AH Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's religious af-
T Street near the British Consulate glanced ner- retary Jack Straw offered taassist TurkeytoesBm- fairs directorate, lashed out at Islamic terrorist
j vously over their shoulders at the sound of any bating terrorism- , *-;, organizations during nationally televised prayer
I loudbang. * .Turkish authorities said they werefcontinuing services at Ankara's majestic Kocatepe Mosque
I Friday, the holiest day on the MusKm calendar, to attempt to determine what role domestic mil- Friday night.
! marked the start of Turkey's nine-day national itant organizations may have had in the attacks of There are those who try to use the holy values
1 and religious holiday, which concludes with Bid the past weeK A Turkish intelligence report cited of religion in violence and terrorism,* said Barda-
.* al-Fitr, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. by the daily newspaper Milliyet said authorities koglu, who ted prayers for the holiest night of the
I Downtown clothing shops, traditional bakeries have identified 1,050 young Turkish men who Muslim year, commemorating the prophet Mu-
, ', and other stores that normally would have been fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Bosnia, hammad's receipt of the first verses of the Koran.
^jkjammed with customers were empty. then returned to Turkey and allegedly maintain This is treason against the essence of the mes-
I """"in deference to the somber mood that has set- "continued links with radical religious terrorists" sage of religion."
I tied over this secular Muslim nation, television they met during those wars. The two men identi-
! networks announced they were canceling all com- fied as the bombers who detonated tracks hear Staff researcher Yesim Borg contributed to this
l edies and .other light entertainment, airing only two Jewish synagogues last Saturday were Turk- report.
i . ,
 YT
Officials Fear New Attacks by Militants in Sou
— By RAYMOND BONNER
MANILA, Nov. 22 — American of-
ficials in Southeast Asia are bracing
for new terrorist attacks as they
gather fresh infopaation about Je-
maah Islamiyah, the radical Islamic
organization based in Indonesia.
Despite afrests of some of the
group's top leaders, including Ri-
duan Isamuddin, the group remains
intact and is growing in strength and
numbers, American and Asian offi-
cials said in interviews this week.
Recruiting of new members and
fund-raising have been easier for the
group because of widespread opposi-
tion in the region to the American
8y»ar in Iraq, the officials said. In the
affisst few months, men, money and
''arms have flowed to the group
Mfirough the Philippines, a center for
IP
Straining and money laundering.
®ai? Mr. Isamuddin, better known as
^ftambali, was captured by the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency in Thailand
tft August.
officials expect new attacks
gainsjLWesterners, with Americans
I Australians at the top of the risk
list. Indonesia is the most likely
place, the officials said. Indonesian
ials said last week that they had
seized documents shewing"that Je»
^ffeittti Islamiyah was planning at-
°fec!cs on Citibank branches in the
"Eountry. ''
™lThe Philippines is also considered
*°i prime target. Mr. Isamuddin, who
"'was a member of Osama biri Laden's
.inner circle, has told his interroga-
. ference in H*waii on Thursday,
31PJ' <H56rs that the Israeli Embassy and a
n|Aanila hotel were on the .group's list
"of targets, a Western official said.
"*" "It is not a question of if, but when
98hd where," a senior American offi-
Aal said. Malaysia and Thailand are
rxsidered lesser targets, but far
om immune, the officials said.
To counter the threat from Je-
°raaah Islajgaiyah, the C.I.A. has more
agents clandestinely operating
Jlwround me region than at any time
<^tncelhe Vietnam War, officials said.
atftje Bush administration is also step-
"T^feg up military assistance to the
KiC
THE NEW YORK TIMES 1NTERNAT10I
Reuters
Taufik Rifki, seized in the Philip-
pines, is said to be "a gold mine "
Philippines, under the rubric of
training exercises. United States offi-
cials have extensive inteUigen
showing that Jemaah Islamiyah has
a major training base on the south-
eiji Philippine island of Mindanao, a
preoMfitaantly Muslim area in this
overwhelmingly Catholic country.
, "We don't have a clear picture yet
of the J.I. order of battte," an Ameri*
can official said. "But with every
interrogation, we learn there's more
of them than we thought."
In a speech atan Asia-Pacific con-
Wong Kan jjelng, Singapore's securi-
ty minister, said Jemaah Islamiyah
had been disrupted, but by no means
eliminated. Singapore intelligence
has concluded that the group was
"likely to,plan more suicide bomb
attacks along the lines of Bali and the
recent Hotel Marriott bombing in
Jakarta," Mr. Wong said.
, Some new information came from
the Interrogation in Manila of Taufik
Rifki, Jemaah Islamiyah's finance
and logistics officer in the Philip-
pines, officials said. Mr. Rifki was
seized last month in Mindanao, in "'tampi
what has been publicly described as A'slan
a Philippine police operation. Pri- side?
vately, officials say the United States tion,'
had a considerable rote. His ques- finam
tioning continued this week. ment
"He's been a gold mine," a West- of So<
ern official said. Mi
Mr. Rifki, born in Central Java in the v
August 1974, attended Islamic miya
schools there before being dis- of m
latched to the Philippines by Je- cials
ah in 1998. He has giv- dece
en nis hiterrbgalors details about r Tl
Jemaah Islamiyah's structure and agei
hierarchy in the Philippines, as well have
as the graduates of the Mindanao
camps, where courses ranged from
how to operate in a foreign country to
advanced bomb-making.
The C.I.A. is now poring over his
accounting records and cellphone
text messages.
"I need chemicals and a detona-
tor," reads one message he sent in
August. Other othlsjnessages stored
in the telephone were more person-
"I love you. I miss you,"
Most of those coming to the Philip-
pines tor training are Indonesians in
their late ||'s or early 30's, accord-
ing to a rostefepl graduates of camps.
Using information from Mr. Rifki,
authorities in Indonesia this month
narrowly missed capturing Azhari
Husin, a 46-year-old Malaysian An
American official described Mr. Az-
hari as more dangerous than Mr.
Isamuddin because he has the same
religious zeal but better bomb-mak-
ing skills. Mr. Azhari is suspected of
having a role in the attack in Bali in
October 2Q02 that killed more than
200 people, and more recently on the
Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Austral-
ian and Indonesian officials have
said.
Mr. Rifki's capture appears to
have disrupted a planned operation,
a Western official said. But he was
caMul not to say it had prevented it.
;"It may have only been postponed a
month or two," he said.
Although many members of Je-
maah Islamiyah trained in Qaeda
WAR ON T E R R O R I S M
possessing printed material that included a "religious edict" in support
There is no question that the international community has been
of terrorist acts against Western targets.
engaged in a fierce war with a shadow enemy since September 2001.
Nations around the world recognize the responsibility not only to
• The Ministry of Interior announced on July 21 that Saudi authorities
protect their own citizens from the threat of terrorism, but to protect
had defused terrorist operations which were about to be carried out
the citizens of other countries as well. Every government has had to take
against vital installations and arrested 16 members of a number of
a stand in the fight against evil. Often, the truth is hard to determine
terrorist cells after searching their hideouts in farms and houses in
because terrorists hide behind so many flags. Riyadh Province, Qasim Province and the Eastern Province.
As part of a public debate in the United States, Saudi Arabia has come
• Turki Nasser Mishaal Aldandany, another top Al-Qaeda operative
under much scrutiny. While our leaders have clearly stated our position
and mastermind of the May 12 bombings, was killed on July 3,2003
and denounced terrorism at every turn, we recognize that we will
along with three other suspects in a gun battle with security forces
ultimately be judged not by our words, but by our deeds.
that had them surrounded.
Since September 2001, Saudi Arabia has arrested more than 600
• Ali Abdulrahman Said Alfagsi AI-Ghamdi, a.k.a. Abu Bakr AI-Azdi,
individuals with suspected ties to terrorism. Over the course of these
who surrendered to Saudi authorities. Al-Ghamdi, considered one of
arrests, Saudi security officers also seized large quantities of high
the top Al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia, is suspected of being one
explosives, automatic rifles and rocket launchers, tons of bomb-making
of the masterminds of the May 12 bombings in Riyadh.
materials and devices, false identity cards and documents, and large
amounts of cash. Many security officers have been killed or injured in
• Yousif Salih Fahad AI-Ayeeri, a.k.a. Swift Sword, a major Al-Qaeda
recent counter-terror activities. operational planner and fundraiser, was killed on May 31 while fleeing
from a security patrol. . _,
Many of these arrests have been highlighted in the world press, including:
As the War on Teff<j[i»HMiges on, Saudi Arabia remains committed
«Three clerics, Ali Fahd AI-Khudair, Ahmed Hamoud Mufreh AI-Khaledi
to rooting out and bringing to justice those who perpetrate such
and Nasir Ahmed AI-Fuhaid, were arrested after calling for support of
heinous acts.
the terrorists who carried out the Riyadh attacks.

• Saudi police killed two suspected terrorists and

arrested six other suspected Al-Qaeda militants after
a Shootout in the holy city of Makkah on Monday,
November 3,2003. Officers also seized a large cache
of weapons they believe were stockpiled for attacks
during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
• On October 5,2003 security forces arrested three
suspects during a raid in the desert to the east of
Riyadh. On October 8,2003 security forces raided
a farm in the northern Muleda area of Qasim Province
and were able to arrest a suspect. Three other
suspects fled the scene.
• Security forces killed one terrorist suspect and
arrested two others in an apartment in the city of
Jizan on September 23,2002. The suspects were
armed with machine guns and pistols and a large
quantity of ammunition.
• Saudi security forces, July 28, killed six terrorist
suspects and injured one more in a gunfight at a
farm in Qasim Province, 220 miles north of the capital,
Riyadh. Two Saudi security officers were killed and
eight suffered minor injuries. Four people who
harbored the suspects were arrested.
• Three men were arrested at a checkpoint in
Al-Ka'akia district of Makkah on July 25 for
"/ vow to my fellow citizens, and to the friends who reside among
us, that the State will be vigilant about their security and
well-being. Our nation is capable, by the Grace of God Almighty
and the unity of its citizens, to confront and destroy the threat
posed by a deviant few and those who endorse or support them.
With the help of God Almighty, we shall prevail."
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
May 13, 2003
"After the terrible attacks in Riyadh on May the 12th, the government
of Saudi Arabia has intensified its longstanding efforts against the
Al-Qaeda network...America and Saudi Arabia face a common
terrorist threat, and we appreciate the strong, continuing efforts
of the Saudi government in fighting that threat."
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A few hours after the blasts in Riyadh, a chain of commentaries
mushroomed around the world. These op-eds ran before the med
broadcast the names of the victims. By the next morning, the offi
"version" of the attack (in Washington, D.C., and abroad) was to
it as a Muslim-on-Muslim attack, blaming the Islamist al-Qaida 1
murdering Muslims in their spiritual motherland Arabia, and dur
holiest month of the year, Ramadan.
A U.S. State Department official quickly spread the word. "This
not against America and the West only, " he said, "it is also agair
Islam." He concluded that al-Qaida'syiV/ad was a "war against
civilization." This version of the Saturday, November 10, terroris
is convenient for the U.S., its allies and the general campaign ag*
terrorism. It could be turned into an immense rallying banner aro
world. If al-Qaida starts massacring fellow Muslims, then it wou
generate an internal Islamic war and lift the mantra of "Crusade"
Washington's efforts. Diplomatic analysts on both sides of the Al
hoped this would be a pragmatic shift in the War on Terror. In fa
wasn't. And here is why.
The characterization of the Riyadh's attacks took off without acci
data. Both the BBC and CNN ignored the victims: their names, ti
socio-economic realities and the history of the Jihadists in this re
First the statistics: According to Diaspora-based Lebanese source
among the injured from the attacks about 90 victims were Lebam
Lebanese nationals were burned to death, including two children,
Raya Mezher. A newly married woman, Nina Joubran, was also
massacred. A pregnant woman, Houry Haytaya, and her husband
Ibrahim, were also killed. Another family, the Haidars, were mui
as well. The fact is certified: The massacre of the Muhayya comf
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ISTANBUL, Nov. 20--Two powerful explosions, five minutes apart, ripped

through Istanbul Thursday, killing at least 27 and injuring more than 450. The
targets included the British consulate and a British bank. An HSBC bank office is hit durir
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caused the two blasts. In televised remarks, Aksu said, "These were probably
suicide attacks." He added that they closely resembled twin suicide bomb
attacks on two synagogues on Saturday in Istanbul.

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said during closing arguments.

Abdellah, charged with membership in a terrorist organization and making fake passports, was one of
nine alleged Islamic extremists detained in April 2002 on suspicion of plotting imminent terror attacks
in Germany.

He has given extensive testimony since his trial opened June 24, saying he was part of the Al Tawhid
group led by fugitive Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a fellow Jordanian he befriended in 2000 while in
Afghanistan to undergo al-Qaida paramilitary training.

Abdellah has testified that Al Tawhid planned to attack the Jewish Museum or another target in Berlin,
as well as a Jewish-owned discotheque or bar in Duesseldorf, where the trial has taken place under tight
security.

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and "fight the Jews."

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The man thought to be the new military chief of Jemaah Islamiah is among a handful of Indonesians in direct contact with al-
Qaeda, officials in Jakarta say, adding that he is considered the most lethal terrorist in Asia and is plotting fresh attacks in the
region.

Known as Zulkarnaen, the highest-ranking leader of the South-East Asian terrorist group is believed to head an elite squad
that helped carry out the suicide bombing at Jakarta's Marriott Hotel that killed 12 people.

Officials also say that Zulkarnaen helped to prepare the bombs that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, in Bali. They
said Zulkarnaen held a meeting last March on the tiny island of Sebatik with two other senior militants to plot attacks against
Western hotels and banks in Indonesia.

"He's considered to be the most dangerous guy that's out there," said Ken Conboy, who runs Risk Management Advisory, a
security consultancy in Jakarta.

Zulkarnaen, real name Aris Sumarsono, is called Baud by fellow militants and is thought to be hiding in Indonesia.

A protege of Abdullah Sungkar, the founder of JI, Zulkarnaen became operations chief for the organisation several weeks
after the arrest in Thailand in August of his alleged predecessor, Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, Indonesian
officials said.

He is now among al-Qaeda's pointmen in South-East Asia and is one of the few people in Indonesia who have direct contact
with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, an intelligence adviser said.

The International Crisis Group think tank recently issued a report also listing Zulkarnaen as having direct contact with al-
Qaeda's leadership.

Officials said Zulkarnaen now leads a squad of militants called Laskar Khos, or special force, whose members were recruited
from among 300 Indonesians who trained in Afghanistan and the Philippines.

Thought to be about 40 years old, Zulkarnaen is described as a small man of few words, slightly built and thin.

Indonesia's national police chief, Da'I Bachtiar, said last week that handwritten notes found in a rented room used by another
top Jemaah Islamiah fugitive, Azahari bin Husin, a Malaysian, revealed plans for a bombing in February.

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overseas," government lawyer Wyn Williams told the hearing, much of which was held
behind closed doors on national security grounds.

"(He) has also provided financial support to terrorists."

In papers issued at the hearing, the government said Qatada was directly linked to top al
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Chechnya as well as the September 11 strikes on the United States.

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Al-Qa'ida Fighters On Attacks Against Americans - Part II

AI-Qa'ida's website [1] posted a video featuring the "last will and testament" of
several of the May 12, 2003 Riyadh suicide bombers. According to the site, the
wills were recorded two weeks before the attack, on April 29, 2003. Transcripts of
the wills were also posted.

The video is divided into six parts. The first part [2] includes excerpts from past
speeches by Osama bin Laden, songs of Jihad and incitement, and narration by
Sheikh Abu Omar Muhammad Al-Seif [3] : "It is incumbent upon all those
capable of attacking the U.S. forces and their allies situated in the countries
neighboring Iraq, from whose bases they go out to attack Iraq - to do so! These
forces came in order to fight Islam and the Muslims, and did not come to seek
peace. The call to sign agreements with them is like a call to sign agreements with
the Jews in Palestine. Likewise, these agreements, which include establishing
bases for attacking Iraq, are one of the deeds contradicting Islam, and the
[Muslim] nation is not bound by them. The treacherous rulers cannot stop
obligatory Jihad. Anyone who calls [for rebellion] against Allah must not be
obeyed." The second part of the video [4] includes an audio recording of the
bombing itself. On the recording, the suicide bombers can be head praying, and
then, en route, crying "Allah Akbar!" and "Allah, expel the polytheists from the
Arabian Peninsula!" This section ends with the sound of gunshots. The third [5]
and fourth [6] parts of the video include the wills, and the fifth [7] and sixth [8]
include the bombers' messages to various recipients. The following are excerpts
from the bombers messages:

The Squad Commander: The Jihad Warriors and The Shahids Marched On
the Path They Have Cushioned With Body Parts, Irrigated With Blood, And
Paved With Skulls'

Squad Commander Muhammad bin Shazzaf Al-Shahri, also known as Abu

Tareq AI-Asswad, said in his video:

"Brothers in Islam, Jihad is one of the commandments of Islam and a solid pillar of
this religion... Jihad, which has earned the label of 'the peak of Islam,' is the sign
of the glory and grace of Islam and of the Muslims, and no Muslim doubts that
Jihad for the sake of Allah is one of the greatest commandments of our religion, a
commandment that has preserved the existence, the glory, and the honor of the
[Muslim] nation. Similarly, it is no secret to any intelligent Muslims that one of the
reasons for the defeat of the nation and its loss today is the disappearance of the
banner of Jihad for the sake of Allah...

"The governments and regimes ruling the Muslim countries today are nothing
more than examples of clear and overt collaboration with the enemies of the
religion of Allah, in order to remove the religious law of Allah from the Muslims.
These governments based their regimes and their laws on dissociation from all the
values and principles of religious law - except for one regime, the regime of the
Al-Sa'ud tribe, which continues to mislead the people and claim that it loves the

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intelligence agencies have extensive reporting on his activities before and after the September 11
hijacking. That they would include only this brief overview suggests the 16-page memo, extensive
as it is, just skims the surface of the reporting on Iraq-al Qaeda connections.

Other intelligence reports indicate that Shakir whisked not one but two September 11 hijackers--
Khalid al Midhar and Nawaq al HamzMhrough the passport and customs process upon their
arrival in Kuala Lumpur on January 5, 2000. Shakir then traveled with the hijackers to the Kuala
Lumpur Hotel where they met with Ramzi bin al Shibh, one of the masterminds of the September
11 plot. The meeting lasted three days. Shakir returned to work on January 9 and January 10,
and never again.

Shakir got his airport job through a contact at the Iraqi Embassy. (Iraq routinely used its
embassies as staging grounds for its intelligence operations; in some cases, more than half of the
alleged "diplomats" were intelligence operatives.) The Iraqi embassy, not his employer, controlled
Shakir's schedule. He was detained in Qatar on September 17, 2001. Authorities found in his
possession contact information for terrorists involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,
the 1998 embassy bombings, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the September 11
hijackings. The CIA had previous reporting that Shakir had received a phone call from the safe
house where the 1993 World Trade Center attacks had been plotted.

The Qataris released Shakir shortly after his arrest. On October 21, 2001, he flew to Amman,
Jordan, where he was to change planes to a flight to Baghdad. He didn't make that flight. Shakir
was detained in Jordan for three months, where the CIA interrogated him. His interrogators
concluded that Shakir had received extensive training in counter-interrogation techniques. Not
long after he was detained, according to an official familiar with the intelligence, the Iraqi regime
began to "pressure" Jordanian intelligence to release him. At the same time, Amnesty
International complained that Shakir was being held without charge. The Jordanians released him
on January 28, 2002, at which point he is believed to have fled back to Iraq.

Was Shakir an Iraqi agent? Does he provide a connection between Saddam Hussein and
September 11? We don't know. We may someday find out.

But there can no longer be any serious argument about whether Saddam Hussein's Iraq worked
with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to plot against Americans.

13. Al Qaeda Affiliate Training Indonesians On Philippine Island

ALAN SIPRESS and ELLEN NAKASHIMA

Washington Post

A regional terrorist network linked to al Qaeda has continued to train its militants in the southern
Philippines, aided by local Muslim separatists, police and intelligence sources said.

The militants, all Indonesians, are training at a camp established three years ago and now
operating under the protection of rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, according to
intelligence sources and a summary of the interrogation of Taufiq Rifqi, an Indonesian militant
who was captured here last month.

Rifqi's testimony startled Philippine officials, who assumed they had deprived al Qaeda's
Southeast Asian affiliate, Jemaah Islamiah, of its primary training ground three years ago when
government soldiers overran its base. It also raises the stakes for peace talks aimed at ending
the 31-year insurgency on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Diplomatic and security
sources said a peace deal could close Mindanao as a vital center for the training and transit of
foreign terrorists - what a Western official in Manila called "a kind of Afghanistan east."

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"We have found out from an al-Qaida detainee interrogated - not by Israelis - that al-Qaida sought to
recruit a Saudi pilot, either a Saudi air force pilot or a civilian pilot, for a 9/11-type attack against
Israel from Tabuq," Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday.

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Al Qaeda planned to hijack a Saudi F-15E fighter jet and crash it into a major office tower in Israel, the
Israeli chief of staff said yesterday.

Israel officals said US Intelligence agencies relayed this information based on their interrogation of Al
Qaeda suspects during the past 18 months. They said Al Qaeda was trying to recruit a Saudi Air
Force pilot to fly his F-15 from Tabuk air base and carry out a suicide attack in Israel about 200
kilometers away. The Al Qaeda plot has been cited by Israel in its arguements to the United States for
the immediate removal of Saudia Arabia's F-15E fleet from the King Faisal Air Base in Tabuk. About 50 F-
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HOME PAGE Twelve Kenyans and three Israeli tourists were killed
when at least two suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden car into the
TRAFFIC Paradise Hotel along the Indian Ocean coast. Almost simultaneously, two
surface-to-air missiles were fired at an Israeli charter jet taking off from nearby
SPORTS Mombasa, but they missed.
BUSINESS
At least four members of the terror cell remain in Somalia, according to the
OPINION report prepared by a panel of experts appointed by the United Nations. The
report did not name the four.
ENTERTAINMENT
U.S. officials cited Somalia as a possible refuge for terrorists after the Sept. 11
FEATURES attacks and placed its largest company, al-Barakaat Group of Companies, and
a Somali Islamic group, al-lttihad al-lslami, on a list of groups believed to have
CLASSIFIEDS links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
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The United States also has frozen millions of dollars in al-Barakaat assets.
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About 1,800 American troops have set up base in neighboring Djibouti as part
of the war on terrorism. American and coalition aircraft and vessels have
Today's Newsday conducted surveillance of Kenya and Somalia.

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Somali experts and an earlier U.N. report played down the terror threat, arguing
Spanish Language that Somalia could be used as a transit point but not likely as a terrorist base.
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"This of course will probably rekindle interest," Alex Vines, an Africa expert at
the London-based Royal Institute of International Affairs, said of the report.
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News/Sports Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said during a meeting with President Bush last
Webcasts month that "it is important for the U.S. to increase its involvement in this search

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Hamdi, an American-born Saudi who was apparently captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan, has
been held without access to a lawyer in military brigs, first in Virginia and now in South Carolina, since
April 2002. The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled in January that he was not entitled to a
lawyer and had no right to challenge the basis for his continued detention. The justices have also been
asked to hear a Freedom of Information Act case challenging the Bush administration's refusal to release
information, including their names, about the hundreds of people, nearly all of them Muslim
immigrants, who were arrested in the weeks following the terrorist attacks. Overturning a ruling by a
federal district judge, the appeals court here ruled in June that the information, even concerning those
found to have no connection to terrorism, was exempt from disclosure.

Unlike the small category of cases the Supreme Court is jurisdictionally obliged to consider — the
campaign finance case now awaiting decision, which Congress instructed the court to hear, is one
example — these appeals all fall within the completely discretionary part of the court's docket. If the
court decides not to hear them, no explanation is likely to be forthcoming, only the word "denied" on the
weekly list of orders that dispose of new appeals. The votes of four justices are required for the court to
agree to hear a case...

The question, then, is whether the justices will nonetheless see these cases as simply important enough
to command the Supreme Court's attention despite the absence of the traditional factors that govern
discretionary review. The appeal filed by Shearman & Sterling, an international law firm with offices
here, on behalf of Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad al Odah and 11 other Kuwaitis held at Guantanamo
invokes the court's robust sense of institutional pride and concern for the separation of powers, a
particular interest of the conservative majority...The appeal filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights,
a liberal public interest law firm in New York, on behalf of Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Mamdouh Habib
and David Hicks, the British and Australian citizens held at Guantanamo, makes a case for the
significance of the issue, all other considerations aside...

FBI official: Al Qaeda degraded, but strong

Saturday, November 1, 2003 Posted: 10:06 AM EST (1506 GMT)
http://www,cnn.com/2003/US/l 0/31/fbi.alqaeda/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One of the FBI's top counterterrorism officials, in an exclusive television
interview with CNN, said al Qaeda remains strong and intent on striking in the United States. Larry
Mefford, the FBI's executive assistant director for counterterrorism and counterintelligence, said the
bureau is initiating some new programs to better confront the terrorism threat. Al Qaeda is still
considered the number one threat by the U.S. government, said Mefford, who is preparing to retire, but
he said there is no information about any specific pending attack...

PAULA ZAHNNOW20:00 October 31, 2003 Friday

CNN
Transcript # 1031 OOCN.V99
KELLI ARENA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In his final interview before retiring, the
FBI's counter terrorism chief spoke exclusively to CNN about Al Qaeda and the threat it poses.

LARRY MEFFORD, EXEC. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FBI: We've seen in our view about 21 terrorist
attacks worldwide since September 11 of 2001 connected to Al Qaeda operations. So they've been busy
overseas for a number of different reasons. They have not attacked us in the homeland, but we're very
concerned about that.

ARENA: Al Qaeda, its activities, and how it's adapting have all but consumed Larry Mefford. He says
the organization has changed the way it raises money, the way it communicates, even the way it recruits.

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FOUR terrorist suspects were being quizzed by police today after officers raided three
different Sheffield addresses.
All the suspects are men and have been held in a high security operation since their arrest
more than 48 hours ago.
They were seized as part of a joint operation involving South Yorkshire police and the anti-
terrorist branch.
Police seized some property when the men were arrested and that was also being held as
part of the investigation. But it is understood there were no guns, ammunition, explosives
or other hazardous substances recovered.
A South Yorkshire police spokesman also stressed: "We have no information to suggest any
immediate risk to the public."
Police have refused to comment on the exact nature of the operation, the type of offences
the men were suspected of being involved in, or the backgrounds of those arrested.
The force also declined to comment on the circumstances of the arrests, or whether any
armed officers were involved.
Although all four were arrested at addresses in Sheffield, it remains unknown how long they
had been living here.
The men were today being held under tight security at a location known to The Star and
were undergoing further questioning.
A district judge yesterday granted investigators a further 72 hours to continue questioning
the men before deciding whether to charge or release them.
Under anti-terrorist legislation, police are allowed to hold suspects for longer than during
routine crime investigations.
The two biggest terrorist threats in this country come from political extremists in Ulster and
fanatical Muslim-linked organisations which attack Western targets.
International security has been stepped up to counter the threat from al-Qaeda and similar
organisations since the 9/11 outrage in America and the Bali bombing.
In March an Islamic terrorist who lived in a flat above shops on Abbeydale Road was jailed
for 11 years for plotting to blow up a Christmas market in Strasbourg. Lamine Maroni and
three other Algerian men were convicted of conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to plant a
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The court in Germany was told that 32-year-old Maroni was a "professional terrorist" who
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8. Saudi-Iran talk al-Qaida suspect turnover

UPI

Saudi Arabia and Iran are engaged in talks over repatriating suspected Saudi al-Qaida operatives
held in Iran, reports said Monday

Saudi official sources were quoted in the daily newspaper Okaz as saying Riyadh was seeking
the repatriation of wanted al-Qaida suspects who were rounded up in Iran after fleeing
Afghanistan.

The sources said Riyadh was not given any Saudi suspects recently, and the last time Iran turned
over Saudi prisoners was last year.

"Saudi Arabia received al-Qaida suspects in several batches from Iran last year, including men,
women and children. But no prisoners were turned over since then," the sources said.
They said most of those repatriated were released after being interrogated about their motives for
their presence in Afghanistan.

9. The Supreme Court and Sept. 11

New York Times Editorial

In the two years since Sept. 11, the Bush administration and the federal courts have rewritten
important areas of the law, scaling back the right to counsel, the ability of prisoners to challenge
their confinement and other civil liberties. Through it all, the Supreme Court has been silent,
largely because of the time it takes for cases to work their way up. The court will soon have a
chance, however, to consider several cases posing the question of how much, if any, our
constitutional rights have changed as a result of Sept. 11. It has a duty to step in and stand up for
civil liberties.

The administration has taken some fairly radical steps in its war on terrorism. It insists that
anyone it labels an "enemy combatant," including American citizens, can be held indefinitely and
denied access to lawyers and family members. And it maintains that the hundreds of detainees in
Guantanamo can be held indefinitely, with no chance to contest their captivity. On these two
points, and on equally troubling ones raised in other cases, federal appeals courts have sided
with the administration.

The Supreme Court is still assembling its docket for this term and will have an opportunity to
consider the administration's enemy-combatant doctrine in the case of Yasser Esam Hamdi, an
American citizen of Saudi descent apparently captured on the battlefield in the Afghan war. Mr.
Hamdi has been held in a military brig since April of last year, without access to a lawyer. An
appeals court held that he had no right to challenge his incarceration. It is a disturbing ruling, with
sweeping implications for the power of the government to detain citizens. The Supreme Court
should review it.

The justices will also be able to review, if they choose to, an appeals court ruling that the
Guantanamo detainees, who were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Afghan war,
have no right to contest their confinement. The detainees are being backed not only by human
rights groups, but also by some retired military officers who argue that the administration's
policies could hurt American troops captured in future conflicts. The court should take the case
and direct the administration to provide the detainees — many of whom, there is reason to
believe, were picked up in error — with a forum for challenging their captivity.

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Special Dispatch Series - No. 601
October 31, 2003 No.601

2nd Issue of Voice of Jihad' Al-Qa'ida Online Magazine:

Strategy to Avoid Clashes with Saudi Security Forces,
Convert the World's Countries to Islam

The second issue of "The Voice of Jihad," the new biweekly on-line magazine
identified with Al-Qa'ida has been posted. J^The following are excerpts from the
latest issue, which includes a sequel to an interview with Abd AI-'Aziz bin 'Issa
bin Abd AI-Mohsen, 2 also known as Abu Hajjer, who isone of the high-
ranking Al-Qa'ida members on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted list.

Lead Editorial: Combat Jews and Americans, Not Saudi Security Forces

The second issue of "The Voice of Jihad" opened with an editorial by Suleiman Al-
Dosari:

"...Our war with the enemies of Allah continues everywhere... We will not let the
Americans occupy the land of the two holy places [i.e. the Arabian Peninsula] [and
feel] secure and safe, and we will not cease our Jihad until we liberate every inch
of Muslim land.

"We draw the attention of the Mujahideen to the strategy adopted by the Sheikh
of the Mujahideen, Abu Abdallah Osama bin Laden, and Sheikh Dr. Ayman
Al-Zawahiri, and agreed to by many of the great Mujahideen, regarding combat
against the enemy: Our number one enemy is the Jews and the Christians, and we
must free ourselves to invest all our efforts until we annihilate them - and we are
able do this if Allah allows us to do it - because they are the main obstacle to
establishing the Islamic state.

"...We must take note of the ploy used by the tyrants [i.e. Arab rulers] in many
countries. They attempted to stop the Jihad project in these countries by shifting
the confrontation with the occupying enemy (the masters) to confrontation with
his guards (slaves) [meaning Muslims], because the tyrants see the killing of one
American or Westerner as more serious than the killing of a hundred of their
country's soldiers; the blood of an American, in their view, is worth the blood of all
Muslims. They are ready to cast hundreds to their deaths so that Americans, in
exchange, will enjoy security and comfort.

"...We must guard ourselves against this ploy and avoid, as much as possible,
confrontations with the armies and forces of the state, so that we can strike lethal
blows to the occupiers, Allah willing. This does not mean we will surrender to
those who defend the Crusaders if they attack us; on the contrary, in this case we
must resist with all the strength we have, and we must punish them so that they
turn their swords toward the Americans and fight among our ranks, or refrain from
entering [into] a confrontation with us - or they will stand against us and wait for
what lies in store for them [at our hands], thanks to Allah and His strength..."

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TREASURY DESIGNATES SIX AL-QAIDA TERRORISTS

This Department of Treasury press release may be viewed at:

http : //www. treas . gov/press/rel eases/2003924735713609 . htm
WASHINGTON, DC u The U.S. Treasury today announced that it has
designated six individuals as Specially Designated Global
Terrorists
(SDGTs) under Executive order 13224, freezing any assets in the
U.S.
and prohibiting transactions with U.S. nationals. Today>ts action
comes
in coordination with the listing of these individuals by the united
Nations. a The UN action requires all UN Member States to freeze
without delay any assets belonging to these individuals. a

The list, submitted to the UN by Germany, includes Abu Musa/Eab

Al-Zarqawi (also known as Ahmed Fadil Al-Khalayleh, among other
aliases), who provided financial and other support to the
terrorists
who assassinated U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan last
October.a Zarqawi has also been involved in smuggling terrorists
into
Israel, has arranged training for Jordanian terrorists in al-Qaida
camps.a in his speech to the United Nations Security Council last
February, secretary of State Powell revealed that under the regime
of
Saddam Hussein, Zarqawi and his network found refuge in Iraq and

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captious and strengthen security in case anything should happen."

MISTAKEN IDENTITY?

The U.S. military in South Korea referred inquiries to Washington. Some 37,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the South,
including at a base near Kunsan, to help deter North Korea.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to visit South Korea next month, following postponement of an earlier
visit. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is due to visit Seoul from November 5 to 7. In addition, South Korea is
deciding whether to send combat troops to help U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

The newspaper named the ship as the Athena, sailing from New Zealand. The New Zealand embassy in Seoul had no
comment.

Lloyd's Marine Intelligence Unit lists six vessels named Athena active worldwide. One of them, a large bulk carrier
flying the Bahamas flag, is owned by Petrobulk Maritime in Athens.

A Petrobulk spokesman confirmed this ship was plying the waters between New Zealand and South Korea but said it
could not be the subject of the security alert.

"This is preposterous — this is obviously a case of mistaken identity ~ there are lots of vessels called Athena," the
spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday from the Greek capital.

"We are flabbergasted. The ship has been sailing with the same crew for months. We are as curious as everyone else to
find out exactly how this has happened," he said. Petrobulk said the ship had been regularly sub-chartered. (Additional
reporting by Stefano Ambrogi in London and by Rhee So-eui, Kim Miyoung and Lee Joon-woo in Seoul)

3. U.S. offers $25 million bounty on embassy bomb suspect

CNN

Under its "Rewards for Justice" program, the State Department on Wednesday posted a $25 million bounty for
information leading to the capture of Abu Musab al Zarqawi ~ a Jordanian with ties to al Qaeda and suspected of
orchestrating the August bombing of Jordan's embassy in Baghdad.

Zarqawi is also being tried in absentia for last year's killing of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan.

The offer appeared Wednesday on the Rewards for Justice Web site, affiliated with the State Department.

The reward is equivalent to the amount being offered for information leading to the capture of former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and some of his top lieutenants.

According to the Web site, Zarqawi "has had a long-standing connection to senior [al Qaeda] leadership and appears to
be highly regarded among" the terror network.

He is also described as a close associate of bin Laden and al Qaeda military leader Saif al-Adel, who U.S. intelligence
officials believe is being sheltered in Iran.

Zarqawi has been named by the Bush administration as an al Qaeda terrorist who fled to Iraq from Afghanistan in May
2002 for medical treatment and then stayed to organize terror plots with Ansar al-Islam ~ a radical Islamic group —
which operated a training camp in northern Iraq that came under coalition control during the U.S.-led war.

Prior to his stays in Afghanistan and Iraq, Zarqawi lived in Jordan, leaving in 1999, and has been wanted by the

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