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...Mustafa Idr - on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme Court ultimately freed the men for lack of evidence, and the Chamber of Human Rights, a panel established under the Dayton peace accords, not only endorsed the verdict...
...meters away from people whose lives he is accused of tearing asunder in a 1995 bombing campaign in the Paris Métro. He showed no feeling save contempt. The alleged Islamist terrorist from Algeria - on trial last week with co-defendant Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem for three blasts in which eight people died and more than 200 were injured - dismissed both the charges against him and those in court who "claim to be victims of an attack." Insisting that "We are not the extremists here," Bensaïd, 35, refused to explain his illegal entry...
...legal residents. Funds raised by the new cells are either funneled directly into network activity or collected from around Europe by couriers for pooling and redistributing from London - which investigators call the headquarters for Islamist terrorism in Europe. In addition to the evidence linking Bensaïd and Belkacem to the 1995 blasts, French prosecutors assert there are records of wire transfers from a suspected Islamist named Rachid Ramda, as well as the duo's own detailed accounting of how that money was spent to prepare strikes. Terrorist attacks are relatively inexpensive. According to investigators' estimates, the entire 1995 Paris...
There's good news for the 434 suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks...
Direct links to bin Laden focus on just one man, the apparent leader of the Algerian cell. Bensayah Belkacem, 41, alias Mejd, lived with his Bosnian wife and two children in the central town of Zenica until his arrest last month. Combing through his dingy ground-floor apartment, investigators found two sets of identity papers (Algerian and Yemeni), blank passports and on a small piece of paper the number of a senior bin Laden aide, Abu Zubaydah, himself a veteran of the Bosnian war. Investigators say he is now in charge of screening recruits for al-Qaeda training camps...