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...massive investigation stretched from the Canadian border, where officials suspect some of the hijackers entered the country, to Florida, where some of the participants are believed to have learned how to fly commercial jetliners before the attacks. Sealed warrants went out in several other states, officials said. In addition, German police searched at least one location at the request...
...attacks in a statement published by a Pakistani newspaper, although he praised the terror strikes nonetheless. U.S. intelligence and security officials reportedly indicated on Tuesday that they were in possession of evidence directly linking his network to the terror strikes, and most terrorism experts agreed he was the prime suspect in an operation of unparalleled sophistication. The Afghanistan-based fugitive's statement follows a pattern of denying responsibility but praising the perpetrators that has become something of a Bin Laden signature following terror attacks attributed to him. And Tuesday's emergency press conference by his hosts - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban...
...civilians. Bin Laden, of course, has no religious standing, and his religious rationalization of terrorism is fiercely rejected by mainstream Islam. The fugitive Saudi has been accused of authoring a number of attacks on Americans, most notably the 1998 embassy bombings in east Africa. He's also a prime suspect in the attack on the U.S.S. Cole...
...notorious Venezuelan "Carlos the Jackal," currently in prison in France. Similarly, the Lebanese Hezbollah militia has depended on backing from Iran and a nod and a wink from Syria. Hezbollah, of course, has primarily waged a guerrilla war against Israel in southern Lebanon, but it has also been a suspect in terrorist attacks both inside Lebanon and abroad. But unlike Bin Laden's group - and the equally cosmopolitan Abu Nidal - Hezbollah tends to remain focus on home ground, and on lending its support and expertise to Palestinian militants in the West Bank and Gaza...
...their Saudi guest incapable of an attack of such sophistication. But it is precisely the level of training and investment in an operation that required men to simultaneously hijack four planes in different cities and skillfully pilot and navigate them to their targets that makes Bin Laden a prime suspect. The attack appears to have been beyond the known capability of the Palestinian terrorist groups whose supporters took to the streets Tuesday to celebrate the gruesome event...