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...event of war, U.S. special forces will scour Iraq in search of Saddam Hussein, but another team of American sleuths will be hunting something even more shadowy: his money. Severing the dictator from his dollars would make it far more difficult for Saddam to survive in hiding like Osama bin Laden, while the recovery of those assets could help rebuild Iraq...
That leaves al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri still at large, if not at liberty. Mohammed is a prize catch because he was still very much in business. With 200,000 U.S. and British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command...
...Manila, where he hooked up with Mohammed. The bombing is not thought to have been sponsored by al-Qaeda, but investigators believe al-Qaeda leaders were so impressed by Yousef's enterprise that they resolved to support his future endeavors. The conduit, it's believed, was bin Laden's brother-in-law Muhammad Jamal Khalifa, who then headed the Philippines office of the Islamic Charitable Organization and was supposedly channeling funds to terrorist groups in Asia. According to Philippine intelligence officials, Mohammed and Yousef plotted assassination attempts against the Pope and President Clinton, as well as a scheme to hide...
...anti-ETA group Basta Ya, and was planning one with a local Socialist politician who opposes ETA. "We think the Basque country should have a right to self-determination," says Otamendi. "But to say we have a connection with ETA is like saying TIME has one with bin Laden, since you interviewed him." The Basque country believes Aznar's move is based in a desire to show a hard line on terrorism before his Popular Party faces municipal elections throughout Spain on May 29. "It's an irresponsible attempt to destabilize institutions of Basque culture," says Basque president Ibarretxe. "Like...
...likely to clog the stage in the coming weeks. But the biggest changes will be outside the candidates' control: this campaign, more than any other in recent memory, will be defined by events in the world. The looming war, the possibility of another terrorist attack, the hunt for Osama bin Laden--the race will be an endless series of surprises...