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Central to that question is whether or not the terrorists were originally sent to Hamburg as agents by Osama bin Laden. Were they "sleepers," for years going about their daily business until they were activated to take part in the hijacking plot? German police believe that scenario is unlikely. "We think the terrorists came to Hamburg to study, didn?t do anything extremist and were eventually recruited by agents of bin Laden," said a police official in Hamburg. In all, three of the hijackers and at least three accomplices who are now fugitives lived in Hamburg, at various times...
...while attending a mosque or Islamic meetings," said a police official. The run-down al-Quds mosque, where the terrorists worshiped, didn?t set off any alarm bells, although Bahaji had come under surveillance briefly in 1998. A Hamburg-based Syrian entrepreneur, Mamoun Darkanzli, who had ties to a bin Laden money man, also attended the mosque without police notice...
...institute and meeting place, motions with his head toward the trio - one with a long dark beard, the other two without - huddled in conversation. "Look at those three," said Shaari, an affable Libyan-born architect. "They might be talking about their families or last night?s soccer match or bin Laden. How should I know their discussion...
Shaari has been forced to fend off such questions since the U.S. Treasury Department dubbed the Islamic center in north Milan the main station house in Europe for Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaeda network in early October. American officials say weapons, information, money and men have moved through a network of fundamentalists operating in and around the two-story, 400-sq-m center that blends into an industrial neighborhood of abandoned warehouses, low-rise offices and a Fiat repair shop...
...abidin (a.k.a. Frances Etim) apprehended in London. Zain-ul-Abidin was linked to Sakina Security, the company that reportedly offered Muslims combat training in Afghan camps Oct. 8, 2001 Bensayah Belkacem, suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell, arrested in Zenica, Bosnia Oct. 10, 2001 Lased Ben Heni, closely tied to bin Laden, nabbed in Munich on suspicion of planning a biochemical attack. Aouadi Ben Belgacem, a Tunisian national also suspected of planning a chemical attack, arrested in Milan Oct. 17, 2001 Harun Aydin, a Turk, apprehended in Frankfurt attempting to board a plane to Tehran. Believed to be a leading member...