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...Devour the Americans just like the lions devour their prey. Bury them in the Iraqi graveyard." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, featured on a videotape released days before the second anniversary of 9/11...
...plot that might have involved suicide hijackings, but it is not known whether the captive was telling the truth and, if he was, when or where the plot would have taken place. And while it is unlikely that Hambali knows the precise coordinates of bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, there is a chance he has been in recent contact with them, perhaps via email, says Zachary Abuza, a terrorism expert at Simmons College in Boston. If Hambali cooperates, he could also help investigators unlock some mysteries of the 9/11 plot. The U.S. believes that he helped Zacarias...
...penetrate. The U.S. and its allies will likely continue to pick off key operatives, as in last week's rollup of the most al-Qaeda leader in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian known as Hambali. They may even eventually net the movement's masterminds, such as Bin Laden himself and Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the virus is already out there, and it is mutating. It's a relative certainty that many of the men whose faces appear on the Qaeda scorecard President Bush keeps in his top drawer have had their responsibilities delegated to a wider group of middle managers...
...numbers of Saudi Islamists may have recently crossed the border to join the battle in Iraq - a number that may actually grow as the Saudi authorities press their crackdown against domestic al-Qaeda sympathizers. (Many of the radicals who made their way to Afghanistan 30 years ago, such as Ayman al-Zawahiri and the other Egyptians in Bin Laden's inner circle, were also escaping a crackdown at home...
...tide has turned against al-Qaeda." Just a few days later, the terrorist group carried out coordinated attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, the threat alert level was raised to orange and officials said the chatter among terrorists was as high as before September 11th. On cue, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's right hand man, issued a new threat against the U.S., reminding Americans that al-Qaeda's two top dogs are still out there. So has the tide turned or not? "The President said that al-Qaeda has been diminished, but has not been destroyed," Fleischer...