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...from the Egyptian armed forces, and organizing them into clandestine cells. He left few traces of his own involvements. After Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981, al-Zawahiri was tried as one of hundreds of defendants, but prosecutors were unable to charge him with any direct connection to the plot. Court testimony alleged that he met with top conspirators on the night of Sadat's killing, then again a week later, after mass uprisings had been crushed by security forces. But as defendant No. 113, al-Zawahiri was convicted only on a weapons-possession charge and sentenced to three years...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] The arrests uncovered a comprehensive plot to attack Eagle Base, used by some 3,000 U.S. peacekeepers, as well as the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo...
JORDAN Strong Jordanian-U.S. links have been reinforced by the WTC attack. Jordan provided a treasure trove of material confiscated from millennium-plot conspirators. Jordanian agents can be overzealous, using threats and torture to get info...
...ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Key arrests include Lotfi Raissi, who allegedly helped teach the hijackers how to fly; Kamel Daoudi, a computer whiz suspected in the Paris plot; and Yasser al-Siri, who was charged in connection with the assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud...
...FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Beghal described a plan to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris. An earlier plot, uncovered last December, targeted Strasbourg cathedral...