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...attack in Kuwait and Yemen as a sign that al-Qaeda sleeper cells have been activated. Kandari and Hajiri would certainly not be the first known al-Qaeda operatives to hail from Kuwait. The group's oft-videotaped spokesman is a militant Kuwaiti preacher named Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. And a Kuwait-born Palestinian, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, is believed to have played a central role in planning the September 11 attacks...
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith ASSUMED ALIVE --Once thought to have perished in the bombing campaign, al-Qaeda's spokesman evidently left an audio statement on an affiliated website in July, with new threats...
...leaders. The hackers linked al-Neda (the Call) to pornography sites and later installed a fake site in its place. Al-Neda typically addresses the merits of jihad and offers tips on keeping operations secret. An audiotaped statement on the site last month from al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith included new threats against the U.S. It also suggested that Abu Ghaith, who was assumed to have perished in the U.S. bombing campaign, is still alive. Al-Neda's operators accused the U.S. of causing their website's disruption. "Do not be deceived by the blasphemous behavior of the crusaders...
...site's propaganda function. In addition to religious tutelage on the merits of al-Qaeda's view of "jihad" and "martyrdom," the site provides news of the well-being of key al-Qaeda leaders, and occasionally even carries their audio-taped statements. Bin Laden spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith used al-Qaeda-friendly Web sites last month to prove that he remains alive and at large, and to raise the morale of its operatives. His audio-taped statement, whose authenticity was confirmed in Washington, insisted that Osama bin Laden has survived the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, and warned of impending attacks...
...ignorant of the precise target of their mission until the morning it took place. Alani says, "The degree of secrecy they established was unbelievable. Only five or six people had a full picture of the whole operation." (They did not include bin Laden's "spokesman," the Kuwaiti Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who- in a glimpse into the everyday life of a terrorist- turns out to be a soccer fan.) St. Andrews' Ranstorp thinks the tape suggests that the Sept. 11 attacks fit into a classic al-Qaeda pattern: an operation is conceived in the field (in this case, by Mohamed Atta...