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...tragically did: the suicide bombing plot of Sept. 11, centered around Mohamed Atta?s apparently autonomous cell in Hamburg. That changed last week when Spanish investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, released a preliminary indictment against eight men alleged to have constituted a long-standing al-Qaeda cell in Spain...
After the attacks Shakur?s calls became even more cryptic. On Sept. 26, according to the indictment, he asks Yarkas whether he is "taking his malaria medicine," and in their last known conversation three days later Shakur considers a move to the "purer air" of Spain and recalls travels they had undertaken together there in the past...
...Qaeda, sending the most promising recruits on to a training camp near Jalalabad. Garzón alleges that Yarkas and his co-conspirators were on the move constantly to send recruits and, when possible, money to support al-Qaeda. Some of the cell members allegedly made fraudulent use in Spain of credit cards stolen in Britain; a fraction of their proceeds went to Sheik Salah in Peshawar...
...Dahdah cell may have met with Atta in the coastal town of Salou during his still largely unexplained 10-day Spanish sojourn in July. Last week investigators in Madrid would say only that they were still looking into that. Said one: "There?s no question that Spain was not just a strategic zone for laundering money and identities, but also a natural meeting point for Islamic militants from all over...
Clearly, the indictment is just a beginning for Garzón, who gained global fame when he sought the extradition in 1998 of Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte for crimes against humanity. In theory, Garzón can take his time on this case: Spain?s strong antiterrorism laws allow the eight to be held without trial for two years, with a possible extension of another two. In practice, though, the pressure is on to fill in the details of how the Abu Dahdah cell?s activities fit into al-Qaeda?s global designs...