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Pursuit of al-Qaeda keeps coming back to Fla.B y R i c h a rd W i l l i n g , U S A T O D A YHOL L YW OOD, F la . ? Th is sp r ing , F B I agents sea rching fo r suspected a l -Qaeda te r ro r is t Ad na n E lS h u k r i j u m a h h o m e d in on Hol ly wood/ P ines B o u l e v a r d , a leafy c o m m e r ci a l s t r ip in the s u b u r b s o f FortLauderda le . E l S h u k r i j u m a h , a t r a ined pi lo t who is the focus o f a w or ldw ide search, a t tended collegean d a mosque on the b ou leva r d b e f o r e d i s a ppea r ing in 2001.Pol ice lookfo rf ingerpr in tsa t a T a m p asa ndw ic hshop w he r ea m a nr e semb l inga l -Qa edasuspectA d n a n E lS h u k r i j u m a hw asspotted.B y Chr i s O 'Mea r a , A P

T h e F B I k n e w th e street well .In th e spring o f 2001, agents h a d tracked tw o local m e n w h o traveled up a nd d o w n Hol lyw ood /Pineso r g an i z i n g w h a t t h e y t o l d a n F B I i n f o r m a n t w ou ld b e a n Is l a m ic j i ha d , o r ho ly w a r , o f t e rr o r b o m b ingsi n S ou th F lo r ida .The m en, cons idered a l -Qaeda "wan nab es ," t r ied unsuc c es s fu l l y t o pe rsua de the i r f r i end E lS h u k r i j u m a h to . j o in th e plot. Th e pa ir la te r p leaded gui l ty to t e rr o r i sm c onsp i r a c y c ha r ges , a ppa r en t lyw i t h o u t r e a l i z ing E l S h u k r i j u m a h ' s a l l eged s t a nd ing in a l -Qa eda .After Sept. 11, 2001, the FBI re turne d to H o l l ywo o d /P i n es . This t ime, agents were t rac ing the s teps ofh i j a c k i ng leader Mohamed Atta in the days before the deadl ies t te r ror a t tacks in U.S . h is tory . Twow eeks b e f o r e t he h i j a c k in gs , A t t a w en t on the I n te r ne t a t a K in ko ' s s to r e on H o l l ywo o d /P i n esBouleva r d to b uy a t i c ke t f o r t he f l ight he w o u ld cr a sh in to t he W or ld Trade Cen te r . F ive mon thsear l ie r , one of the "wannabes ," I m r a n M a nd ha i , ha d gone to t he sa me Kinko ' s t o pr i n t copies of a l ist o fweapons.T r a c k ing suspected M us l im t e r ro r i s ts in S ou th F lo r ida , a U . S . i nve s t iga to r t he r e says , can seem l ike a

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Wahhabis in the Old DominionWhat the federal raids in Northern Virginia uncovered.b y S t e p h e n S c h w a r t z04/08/2002, Vo l um e 007, Issue 29 - W e e k l y S t a n d a r dF E D E R A L L A W ENFORCEMENT h a s kicked over qui te a n a n t h i l l i n N o r t h e r n V i r g i n i a . A U.S.T r e a s u ry t a s k f o r c e , O p e r a t i o n G r e e n Q u e s t, h a s b e en i n v e s t i g a t i n g t h e f u n d i n g o f I sl a m i c t e r r o r . R a i d so n M a r c h 20 s t ruck a n e x t ra o r d i n a r y a r r a y o f f i n a n c i a l , c h a r i t a b l e , a n d o s t e n s i b l y r e l i g i o u s e n t i t i e si den t i f i ed w i t h M u s li m a n d A r a b c o n c e r n s i n t h i s c o u n t r y , m o s t o f t h e m h e a d q u a r t e r ed i n N o r t h e r nV i r g i n i a .R e a c t i o n t o t h e r a i d s s ug g es ts t h e Feds i n f l i c t e d s e r i o u s i n j u r y o n t h e W a h h a b i lo b b y, t h e S a u d i - b a c k e dex t r em i s t n e t w o r k t h a t l a r g e l y c o n t r o l s I sl a m i n A m e r i c a . O f f i c i a l s o f t he t a r g e t ed g r oups a s we l l a st h e i r n o n - M u s l im a p o l o g i s t sn o t a b ly G O P operative Grover Norquis t , t h e chief e n a b l e r o f I s l am i cex t r em i s t s s eek i ng access t o t h e W h i t e House-have c o n d e m n e d t h e r a i d s a s c i v i l r i g h t s v i o l a t i o n s .T h e c o n v o l u t e d s y st e m o f i n t e r l o c k i n g d i r ec to r a t e s , g l o b a l b a n k i n g t r a n s a c t i o n s , a n d i d e o l o g i c a la c t i v i t i e s e xp o se d i n N o r t h e r n V i r g i n i a w i l l t a k e t i m e t o s o r t o u t . O p e r a t io n G r e e n Q u es t h a s d r a w na t t e n t i o n t o a p r e v i o u s l y o v e r lo o k e d a s pe ct o f s u p p o r t f o r e x t r e m i s m i n t h i s c o u n t r y : T h e p r i n c i p a lt h r e a t c o m e s n o t f r o m t h e t h o u s a n d s o f w o r k i n g - c la s s A r a b i m m i g r a n t s i n p la c es l i k e New J e r s ey andM i c h i g a n wh o c on t r i b u t e m o des t s um s t o t he so -ca l l ed I s l am i c ch a r i t i e s , b u t f r om t h e Ar a b e l i t e .T h e S a u d i s s t a n d b e h i n d a l l o f i t . T he k i n g d o m p le d ge d $400 m i l l i o n l a st y e a r f o r t h e s uppo r t o f"m a r t y r s ' f am i l i e s ," ac c o r d i n g t o t h e Saud i E m b as s y web s i t e . A t $5,300 per " m a r t y r ," t h a t w o r k s o u t t oa b o u t 75,000 m ar t y r s , s ug g es t i ng t h e S a u d i p r i n c e s a n t i c i p a t e a l o t m o r e s u i c i d e b o m b i n g s t h a n I sr a e lh a s y e t s u f f e r ed . T h e S a u d i s o f f e r e d a f r a u d u l e n t " pe a ce " p l a n t h i s y e a r i n t e n d e d to d i v e r t a t t e n t i o nf r o m t h e i r i n v o l v e m e n t i n t h e h o r r o r s o f September 11 .T h e k e y s t o n e o f t h e S a u d i- sp o n s o r e d N o r t h e r n V i r g i n i a n e t w o r k i s t h e S a a r F o u n d a t i o n , c re a t ed b yS u l e i m a n A b d u l A l - A z i z a l - R a j h i , a sc ion o f o n e o f t h e r i ch e s t S a u d i f a m i l i e s . T h e S a a r F o u n d a t i o n i sc onnec t ed t o A l - T a q w a , a s h e ll c o m p a n y f o r m e r l y b a se d i n S w i t z e r l a n d , w h e r e i t s l e a d i n g f i g u r e si n c l u d e d a n o t o r i o u s n e o - N a z i a n d I sl a m i s t , A h m e d H u b e r . S u b s e q u e n t l y m o v e d t o t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s,A l - T a q w a w a s s h u t d o w n a f t e r Sep t em b er 11 a n d i t s asse t s f rozen b y U. S . p r es i den t i a l o r de r . B uto p e r a ti o n s c o n t i n u e d , a s t h e W a h h a b i l o b b y s h i f t e d t o i t s b a c k u p i n s t i t u t i o n s h e r e .S a a r h a s a l so b ee n l i n k e d t o K h a l i d b in M a h f o u z , f o r m e r le a d f i n a n c i a l a d v i s e r t o t h e S a u d i r o y a lf a m i l y a n d e x- h e a d o f t h e N a t io n a l C o m m e r ci a l B a n k o f S a u d i A r a b i a . M a h f o u z h a s b ee n n a m e d b yF r e n c h i n t e l l i g e n c e a s a b a c k e r o f Os am a b i n L a d e n ; M a h f o u z e n d o w e d t h e M u w a f a q F o un d a t io n ,wh i c h U . S. a u t h o r i t i e s c o n f i r m w a s a n a r m o f b i n Laden's t e r r o r o r g a n i z a t i o n . M u w a f a q 's f o r m er c h i e f ,Yass i n a l - Q a d i , o v e rs a w t h e f i n a n c i a l p e n e tr a t io n o f B o s n i a -H e r ze g o v i n a a n d A l b a n i a b y W a h h a b i

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"And we need to return to that kind of diplomatic ef for t . . . ," Beers was saying, ov er the droning sound. His wargoes on .

8) 5-Year Hunt Fails to N et Qaeda S uspect in AfricaBy DESMOND BUTLERNew York TimesMOMB ASA , Kenya A recent urgent terrorism alert in Kenya is the latest frustrating chapter in a five-ye arinternational manhunt for one of the world's most wanted Qaeda suspects, American and Kenyan officials say.The alert was issued in M ay after the suspect, Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, was sighted in Mombasa.Investigators say he has been an associate of Osama bin Laden since the early 1990's and is the leader of A lQaeda's operations in East Africa.The officials said they had been pursuing him sometimes close on his heels since he emerged in theinvestigation of the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.What has helped Mr. Muhammad evade capture, Western officials say, is Kenya's porous 420-mile border withSomalia, an anarchic and lawless country where the American presence all but evaporated in the early 90'safter a military debacle in which 18 G.l.'s were killed."In East Africa, our most serious vulnerability is that we are neighboring the Somali R epublic, a land with nogovernment," Dave Mwangi, Kenya's permanent secretary for provincial administration of national security, saidin an interview in Nairobi. "As long as Somalia remains that way, people can hide there. We have a long, porousborder, which will remain a threat."One result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States was an American effort to re-establishsome intelligence ope rations in Somalia. Now , with M r. Muhamm ad's suspected use of Somali territory as ahiding place and staging area, Western officials here say, the United States is increasing its involvement,pursuing alliances w ith competing wa rlords in an effort to monitor ports and airfields.Kenyan officials said Mr. Muhammad audaciously returned to Mombasa, formerly his base, in May even thoughhis photograph had been circulated to the police throughout the country and the region. He has been accused inthe attack here last November in which suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden car into the ParadiseHotel, killing 13 people, as well as in an attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet with a shoulder-firedmissile.Shortly before his appearance in Mombasa, Mr. Muhammad was spotted in a mosque in Mogadishu, the Somalicapital, according to Kenyan and Western officials.Since then Western antiterror agents, increasingly convinced that he and several Qaeda associates are usingSomalia as a sanctuary and transit point for weapons and explosives, have been w orking to persuade warlordswho con trol key airfields to produce flight m anifests and allow the mon itoring of ports.A contingent of German surveillance planes based in Mombasa is now monitoring ships and communication ininternational waters along the Somali coast with the aid of We stern intelligence agents in Somali ports and incoordination w ith A merican forces in Bahrain, according to a German military official. They have been searchingfor suspect ships, including some identified as having ties to Qaeda business interests and operations,according to the official.In May, the State Department warned of the "credible threat" of another terrorist attack in Kenya, mentioning therisk of an assault using shou lder-fired antiaircraft m issiles. After a similar warning from the British government,

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He turned to Rohling in the back seat: "By the way, happy Father's Day."

5) Defense Teams Seek Access to an Operative for Al QaedaBy BENJAMIN W EISERNew York TimesA dispute has arisen over whethe r lawyers for defen dants in a terrorism case in Manhattan should be grantedaccess to the son of the sheik who was convicted in 1995 in a plot to blow up Ne w York landmarks, a ne w courtdocument shows.The son, Ahmed Abde l Rahman, was with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2000 an d 2001, a federal indictment says.News reports have said that he was capture d there in late 2001, and has since been held at Guantanamo Baywith other detainees.The requ est to interview him was made by lawyers for Ahme d Abde l Sattar, who faces trial in Federal DistrictCourt along with the New York lawyer Lynne F. Stewart, and an Arabic translator. All three defendants havebeen charged with supporting terrorism, an d have pleaded not guilty.Mr. Sattar's lawyers say they want to interview Mr. Rahman, the son of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, becausethey say he will help bolster their defense to the charges. Th e office of the United States attorney, James B.Comey, wro te back to the defe nse last Monday, re fusing to provide information about the son 's status. The letterdoes not acknowledge whether the son is even in custody.Mr. Comey's office said that "disclosure of such information could be inimical to the national security of theUnited States."The dispute could evolve into a legal fight similar to that being waged in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, who ischarged in the Sept. 11 attacks. A fede ral judge in Virginia has ordered the governm ent to allow Mr. Moussaou ian d his court-appointed legal advisers to have access to another captured Qaeda operative, Ramzi bin al-Shibh,a coordinator of the attacks. The government appealed, saying that allowing such access would harm nationalsecurity.In Manhattan, the indictment describes Mr. Sattar as an operative for an Egyptian terrorist organization calledthe Islamic Group, which Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman once led. The sheik has been sentenced to spend the restof his life in prison.In 2001, the indictment says, Mr. Sattar arranged to send money to the sheik's son when he was in Afghanistanwith Al Qaeda.Mr. Sattar's lawyers, B arry M. Fallick and Ken neth Paul, sugg este d in court papers last wee k that the sheik'sson, if he were que stioned , would say that any money he rece ived was not supporting terrorism ."We expect that Ahmed Abdel Rahman would testify that an y money sent to him by Mr. Sattar was for his ownpersonal needs an d use," the lawyers wrote.Citing the Moussaoui ruling, Mr. Sattar's lawyers asked Judge John G. Koeltl to order the government todisclose whether it has the son in custody, and if so, to grant them access. Th e other defendants ar e joining inthe reque st, lawyers said.Th e judge , referrin g briefly to the dispute in a hearing on Friday, asked for further written argu me nts. In thehearing, defense lawyers asked that the charges be dismissed on various grounds.For exam ple , M s. Stewart's l awyer , M i c h a e l E . T i ga r , a rgued t h a t th e acts she i s accused of were speech

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By Daniel Klaidman, Mark Hosenball, M ichael Isikoff and Evan ThomasNewsweekKhalid Shaikh M ohammed looked more like a loser in a T shirt than a modern-day Mephistopheles. But "KSM,"as he is always referred to in FBI documents, held the key to unlock the biggest mystery of the war on terror: isAl Qaeda operating inside Ame rica?THE ANSW ER, ACCORDING TO KSM's confessions and the intense U.S. investigation that follow ed, is yes. Itis not known wh ere the a uthorities took K SM after he was cap tured, looking paunchy and pouty, in a 3 a.m. raidin Pakistan on March 1. As Al Qaeda's director of global operations, K SM was by far the m ost valuable prize yetcaptured by American intelligence and its various allies in the post-9-11 manhunt. He probably now resides inan exceedingly spartan jail cell in some friendly Arab country, perhaps Jordan.He has probably not been tortured, at least in the traditional sense. Interrogation methods, usually involvingsleep deprivation, have become much more refined. He probably did not tell all he knew. Qaeda chieftains areschooled in resisting interrogation, and inform ed sources said that at first KSM offered up nothing but evasionsand disinformation. But confronted by the conte nts of his computer and his cell-phone records, he beganspeaking more truthfully. According to intelligence docum ents obtained by NEWSW EEK, many of the names,places and plots he revealed have checked out. After 9-11, Osama bin Laden's terror network "was clearlyhere," a top U.S. law-enforcement official told NEWSWEEK. "It was organized, it was being directed by theleaders of Al Qaeda." Though rumors of sleeper cells have floated about for months, it is a startling revelationthat Al Qaeda's chief of operations was directly running operatives inside the United States. Thanks to somereal breakthroughs by the Feds, the Qaeda plots do not appear to have made it past the planning stage. Theinside story of the war at home on Al Qaeda, reconstructed by NEWS WEEK reporters from intelligencedocuments and interviews with top officials, has been marked by good luck and good w ork. Still, no one in theintelligence com mun ity is declaring victory.RECRUITING TECHNIQUESKSM revealed an overhaul of Al Qaeda's approach to penetrating Am erica. The 9-11 hijackers we re all fore ignnationals-mostly Saudis, led by an Egyptian~who infiltrated the United States by obtaining student or touristvisas. To foil the heightened sec urity after 9-11, Al Qaeda began to rely on operatives who would be harder todetect. They recruited U.S. citizens or people with legitimate Western passports who could move freely in theUnited States. They used women and family members as "support personnel." And they made an effort to findAfrican-American Muslims who would be sympathetic to Islamic extremism. Using "mosques, prisons anduniversities throughout the United States," according to the documents, KSM reached deep into the heartland,lining up agents in Baltimore, Columbus, Ohio, and Peoria, III. The Feds have uncovered at least one KSM-runcell that could have done grave damage to the United States.

It is somew hat reassuring that, so far, at least, the FBI has not uncovered any plots to use chemical or biologicalor nuclear weapons against America. Al Qaeda chiefs, especially bin Laden's ghoulish No. 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, have shown a strong interest in the past in obtaining weapons of mass destruction. The terror networkallegedly dispatched a Brooklyn-born Hispanic Catholic who converted to Islam, Jose Padilla, to scout out thepossibility of building a radiological device, a so-called dirty bomb (arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport in early2002, he is being held as an "enemy c omba tant" in a military jail). B ut none of the ope ratives caught up in theweb spun by KSM appears to have been working on a weapon that could wipe out an entire city.On the other hand, the plotters were apparently scheming to take down the Brooklyn Bridge, destroy an airliner,derail a train and blow up a wh ole series of gas stations. Fortunately, Am erican law enforc eme nt has been ableto nip these plots in the bud. The m ethods used by the G-men to crack the Qaeda cells, wh ile effective andunderstandable under the circumstances, raise uncomfortable questions about legal means and ends.Many of the Qaeda operatives have not been arrested or charged with a crime. The Bush Justice Department isreluctant to throw terror suspects into the Am erican criminal-justice system , where they can ava il themselves oflawyers and use their rights to tie prose cutors into knots (the alleged "20th hijacker" of the 9-11 plots, ZacariasMoussaoui, hassucceeded in bringing his criminal prosecution to a grinding halt). Rather, the Justice

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April 16. 2003, 7:15 a.m.Drawing a Line in the Saudi SandTime for Riyadh to prove it is an ally in the war on terror.By Matthew Levitt

With the Iraqi regime defeated and military victory near at hand, the United States and it allies arepositioned to leverage greater cooperation in the war on terror from ke y Arab states, chief amongthem Saudi Arabia.

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For all its rhetoric, and its limited actions, Saudi Arabia remains part of the probleminternational terrorism, not the answer.To be sure, Saudi Arabia has made several contributions to the war on terror albclimited and intermittent. In one instance, Saudi agents reportedly infiltrated twodomestic al Qaeda cells, leading to the arrest last June of over 75 al Qaeda membersseveral nationalities, including Saudis. Saudi security services have thwarted terrorattacks targeting Western interests in the Kingdom.Still, even those counterterror efforts in which the Saudis do engage are inconsistemWhile limited operations have been conducted in the tactical realm of preventing neterm attacks on Saudi soil, the Saudis have proved far less cooperative in criticalstrategic areas such as combating terror financing or assisting international terrorisninvestigations. Th e actions the Saudis claim to have already implemented amounttclittle more than window dressing, when what is needed is concrete and concertedaction.If the Saudis acted on the four following issues, they would make a significantcontribution to the reinvigorated counterterror offensive to follow the removal ofSaddam and liberation of Iraq. Critically, the only question is whether the Saudis anwilling to take such action; they are certainly capable These are actions the Saudiregime is capable of taking, and should therefore be expected and held accountableimplement.

E N C O U N T E R B O O K S , Action in these areas is the yardstick by which the West should measure Saudi ; . ,11 cooperation in the war on terror:1. Assist International Terror Investigations. Saudi officials are not only

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June 2, 2003SECTION: NATION & WORLD; INVESTIGATIVE REPORT; COVER STORY; Vol. 134 , No. 19; Pg. 18LENGTH: 6571 wordsHEADLINE: Playing OffenseBYLINE: By David E. Kaplan; Aamir Latif; liana Ozernoy; Laurie Lande; Monica M. EkmanDATELINE: Pakistan; Jordan; SingaporeHIGHLIGHT:The inside story of how U.S. terrorist hunters are going after al Qaeda;BODY:"After 9/11, the gloves come off."-GOFER BLACK, former director, CIA Counterterrorism CenterAnd the brass knuckles came on. America's frontline agents in the war on terror have hacked into foreign fbanks, used secret prisons overseas, and spent over $ 20 million bankrolling friendly Muslim intelligence v -* "services. They have assassinated al Qaeda leaders, spirited prisoners to nations with brutal human-rightsrecords, and amassed files equal to a thousand encyclopedias.But the war is far from over. Last week, Osama bin Laden's top deputy exhorted the faithful to strike atwestern embassies and businesses. The injunction, from Ayman al-Zawahiri, came on the heels of bombingsin Morocco and Saudi Arabia and caused the United States to close diplomatic posts overseas and increasethe homeland security warning level from yellow to orange. Al Qaeda, one FBI veteran explained, "has onemore 9/11 in them."With all the headlines about the latest attacks and warnings, however, it is easy to miss the amount ofdamage America's terrorist hunters have inflicted on bin Laden's ragtag army. U.S. News has retraced thewar on terror, starting in the very first weeks after 9/11, to examine in detail howWashington and its allieslaunched an unprecedented drive, led by the Central Intelligence Agency, to disrupt and destroy bin Laden'soperation. Interviews were conducted with over three dozen past and current counterterrorism officials in ahalf-dozen countries; the magazine also reviewed thousands of pages of court records and analytical reports.The story-part detective yarn, part spy tale-is one of unsung heroes. It is a story of nameless CIA analystswho matched tortured renditions of Arabic names with cellphone numbers around the globe, of Pakistanisoldiers killed while smashing down doors of al Qaeda, of Jordanian interrogators who wore down some of binLaden's craftiest killers. Much of this has not been told before. A windfall of intelligence has led to a newer,more profound understanding of bin Laden's secret network, intelligence officials say. They have built updossiers on his followers from a scant few hundred before 9/11 to over 3,000 today. They have identified thecore group's sworn membership, nowthought to number only 180 true believers. And bin Laden's personalfortune, investigators say, is all but gone.There's more. The investigators have unearthed a secret history of al Qaeda, discovering documents in bin ,Laden's own hand, along with records identifying donors to the terrorist group. They have forced captured ._operatives to help target their comrades-even listening in as a terrorist made a phone call that led to theassassination of a top al Qaeda leader.

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