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...proof came two weeks ago, when Moroccan police in Casablanca announced the arrest of three Saudis--Zuher al-Tbaiti, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal Alissiri--on suspicion of plotting an attack on an American or British warship in the Strait of Gibraltar. (The group had been planning to buy a Zodiac motorized skiff, which could have been used for an attack like the one on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000.) Moroccan officials tell TIME that they started tailing the group after a tip from the U.S., which had been questioning Moroccan al-Qaeda detainees in Cuba. The detainees told...
...similar vein, the arrest of Padilla, for all the frightening claims that Ashcroft made for his plot, may reveal a weakness in al-Qaeda's position rather than a strength. Al-Qaeda appears to be relying on irregulars--inexperienced, unsophisticated operatives like Padilla and, for that matter, Reid--rather than the highly trained, disciplined jihadis who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. In the view of many experts on Islamic terrorism, converts to Islam who grew up in the West sometimes lack the deep conviction of those born into the faith who grew up in its Arab heartlands...
...June 10 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrest of suspected al-Qaeda associate Jose Padilla in an alleged plot to explode a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. It was only the first big development in a busy week in the war against terrorism...
MOROCCO On June 10 security services announced the arrest of three Saudi al-Qaeda members--Zuher al-Tbaiti, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal Alissiri--for planning an attack on NATO warships in the Strait of Gibraltar...
...garish Piccadilly of ordinary tourists, but that of wealthy conservatives - retired colonels and such, who shop for books and fine tailoring and stay at select gentlemen's clubs, sipping old whisky with like-minded right-wingers. In 1999, Pinochet made one trip too many and found himself under house arrest for 16 months, facing the threat of extradition to Spain to face torture charges over the treatment of Spaniards and others in Chile. Before Beckett, a writer for the left-leaning Guardian and other newspapers, takes readers along on Pinochet's British visits - mostly in his final chapters - he conducts...