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Johnson's next battle was obtaining information about the suspect from creditors. Some companies, such as Discover and Gateway, gave Johnson everything on the fraudulent applications. Others, including Zales and American Express, told him next to nothing. "Giving customers some information would hamper our security efforts," says AmEx spokesperson Judy Tenzer. "We consider an investigation a law-enforcement issue," says Maria Mendler, of Zales' lending arm, Citibank...
...compounded by the country's successful push in recent years to boost the numbers of visitors from the Middle East, attracted in part by Malaysia's policy of visa-free entry for citizens of most Islamic countries. "How do we stop these Arabs?" asks one official. "Even if we suspect them we can't just arrest people...
...PAKISTAN Prime Suspect Authorities identified British-born militant Sheik Omar Saeed as the main suspect in the Jan. 23 kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl. Saeed allegedly set a trap for Pearl by posing as a representative of Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani, a radical religious leader the reporter wanted to interview. Saeed has a history of abduction; in 1994, India jailed him for kidnapping tourists in Kashmir. He was released five years later in exchange for passengers on a hijacked airliner...
...police, was a number for Abu Doha, an al-Qaeda sympathizer and recruiter now held in Britain and sought by the U.S. for complicity in Ahmed Ressam's plan to blow up Los Angeles airport. Doha is also known to have had regular contact with the Frankfurt cell. Investigators suspect Cherifi may have also received direct instructions from Doha during four trips he made to London in the first seven months of 2000. "Two visits were spent at Baker Street, the other two at Finsbury Park," the French official says, referring to two London venues suspected as recruiting centers...
...with radical Islam drew him to London, he was unable to follow his fellow extremists to al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Although investigators say the by-now-unemployed Cherifi methodically liquidated family accounts to finance that trip, health problems posed by diabetes derailed his candidacy as a fighter. Police suspect Islamist leaders in London urged Cherifi to dedicate himself instead to vital covert logistics work in Paris - a role more securely assumed without the conspicuous Afghan link - providing money, documents, safe houses and go-between services for members of newly established European cells...