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Investigators have a few circumstantial clues hinting at bin Laden's involvement. Ressam and several of his Montreal-based associates, once linked to the brutal Algerian terror organization Armed Islamic Group, had grown away from that band's local fight. FBI agents have unverified reports that they trained at camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is a major funder of Islamic militancy. While police found no signatures that prove the provenance of the timing devices in Ressam's car, the units were "strikingly similar" to ones produced at bin Laden's camps...
...third man Canadian authorities were watching: Slahi. Born in Mauritania, he moved to Montreal last fall from Germany. U.S. officials found he had been in contact with Haouari. When his name was run through the databases, it turned out he was the brother-in-law of one of bin Laden's closest associates, a man cryptically known as "the Mauritanian." Washington experts say that man is a member of bin Laden's Shura, or advisory council, and there are indications that he may know something about the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Slahi had also been in frequent...
...moment, the Algerian Connection's tie to bin Laden amounts to the fact that "the Mauritanian" and Slahi and Haouari talked to one another a lot. "It doesn't mean they were operationally linked," says an official familiar with the case. "You gotta prove that." To do so, investigators will need better luck holding on to their suspects...
...impossible not to notice the menacing presence of Keyes' three square-shouldered bodyguards, who spoke into their sleeves. There was no apparent security threat among the Applebee's stragglers, but you can never be certain Osama bin Laden isn't hiding behind a patty melt...
...Stansted airport for a second day, Tuesday, as British authorities continued to negotiate with the terrorists who have released eight hostages over the past day. The hijackers have demanded the release of a key Afghan opposition leader from a Taliban prison, and the ruling militia - and hosts of Osama bin Laden - appeared oblivious to irony as they denounced terrorism and steadfastly refused to negotiate. Taliban civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor even called Monday for British forces to storm the plane. But in the Christmastime Indian Airlines hijacking, the Taliban had insisted that the Indian authorities negotiate with the terrorists...