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TIMEF R O M T H E M A G A Z I N ESunday, Oct. 19,2003How the Moussaoui Case CrumbledTIME in depth: A trial once described as a siam dunk is caughtin a post9/11 legal wrangleBy VIVEGA NOVAK IWASHINGTON

U.S. authorities easily nabbed Zacarias Moussaoui in the weeks before9/11, bu t prosecuting the alleged terrorist has been far from smooth. Hereare the twists and turns in a case many thought would be open-and-shut:When Zacarias Moussaoui was enrolled in flight school in Eagan, Minn.,he could have easily looked up in the sky to see the kind of airplane hewanted to fly. Along the approach to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, 747sscreamed overhead day and night. His flight instructor at Pan AmInternational Flight Academy found Moussaoui genial but clueless andtotally unable to explain why he wanted to pilot a 747. The school'sadministration called the fbi, and he was arrested nearby on Aug. 16, 2001.When investigators interviewed the 33-year-old French Moroccan andasked him whether he planned to use a plane for a terrorist attack, he eitherdid not answer or asked for a lawyer, according to different sources familiarwith the session. He was then held for overstaying his visit to the U.S.Less than a month after he was locked up , 19 al-Qaeda operatives boardedfour commercial jetliners and turned them into aerial bombs, killing morethan 3,000 people in the worst terrorist attacks ever on U.S. soil. Withindays, investigators began piecing together intriguing parallels betweenMoussaoui's actions and those of the hijackers. He had come to the U.S. toattend flight school, just like the hijackers; he too had purchased knives; hetoo possessed flight manuals for commercial jets. Three months to the dayafter the attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft proudly announced ashowstopping list of conspiracy charges against Moussaouiwho thegovernment strongly hinted was the missing 20th hijackercalling theindictment "a chronicle of evil." He wasand remainsthe only person inthe U.S. charged in connection with 9/11.Nearly two years later, the government's case, which had been billed as aslam dunk, is a shambles. On Oct. 2, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkemasaid prosecutors could not seek the death penalty for Moussaoui and couldnot even allege that he had a link to the 9/11 conspiracy. She put thoseshackles on the government's case because it had denied the defendant, on

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Oil for Food Sales Seen As Iraq Tie To AlQaedaU.S. Probes Bank NetworkBy MARC PERELMANFORWARD STAFFThe hunt for Saddam Hu ssein's money cou ld provide some clues to one of the claims madeby the Bu sh administration to justify its war in Iraq the possible link between the formerIraqi regime and the Al Qaeda terrorist group.Two entities, a shadowy banking network linked by the administration to Al Qaeda and aSaudi oil company close to the Taliban regime, w ere involved in buyin g oil from SaddamHussein under the United Nations' oil-for-food program, th e Forward has learned.The now-defunct program allowed Iraq to buy food an d medicine with its oil proceedsunder U.N. supervision. Although the oil sales in question w ere legal an d approved by theU.N., several observers say the system involved kickbacks and was used by Saddam to buypolitical support and to finance intelligence activities an d even terrorist groups."I t seems very plausible that some of the oil money went to terrorism financing," aterrorism-financing expert closely monitoring Iraq said on condition of anonymity. "Ibelieve this actu ally happen ed."Among Iraq's oil customers since 1997 is a Liechtenstein -based com pany called GalpInternational Trading Establishmen t, a subsidiary of Portugal's main oil compan y, accordingto a list of oil purchasers obtained by the Forward. The U.N. has not published the list.The compan y chose as its legal representative in Liechtenstein a tax haven know n forhosting thou sands of shell companies a company called Asat Tru st, according toLiechtenstein business records.Asat Trust was designated by the U nited States an d the U.N. as a financier of Al Qaedathrough its links to Al Taqwa, a cluster of financial entities spanning the globe from theBahamas to Italy an d controlled by members of the Mu slim Brotherhood.The operation raises the possibility that Iraq quietly funneled money to Al Qaeda bydeliberately ch oosing an oil company working with one of the terrorist grou p's allegedfinancial backers.

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Original MessageFrom: Katsu Furukawa [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 3:21 PMTo: [email protected]: On Iraq-Al Qaeda ConnectionStandard WeeklyThe Al Qaeda Connection, cont.More reason to suspect that bin Laden and Saddam may have been inleague.by Stephen F. Hayes07/11/2003 5:45:00 PM

THE INDISPENSABLE Glenn Reynolds has linked to an article in theNashvilleTennessean written by a Tennessee judge who believes he is in possessionofdocuments linking Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.The judge is Gilbert S. Merritt, a federal appeals court judge invitedtohelp Iraqis construct a legal system in postwar Iraq. He is, accordingtoReynolds, "a lifelong Democrat and a man of unimpeachable integrity."Here is an excerpt of his account:The document shows that an Iraqi intelligence officer, Abid Al-KarimMuhamedAswod, assigned to the Iraq embassy in Pakistan, is ''responsible forthecoordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group.''The document shows that it was written over the signature of Uday SaddamHussein, the son of Saddam Hussein. The story of how the document cameaboutis as follows.Saddam gave Uday authority to control all press and media outlets inIraq.Uday was the publisher of the Babylon Daily Political Newspaper.On the front page of the paper's four-page edition for Nov. 14, 2002,there

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AP: Terrorist Says 9/11 Plot Began in '96AP Exclusive: 9/11 Mastermind Tells Investigators He First Discussed Plot With BinLaden in 1996The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Sept. 21

Khalid Shaikh M ohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that hefirst discussed the plot with Osama bin L aden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking fivecommercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogationreports reviewed by The Associated Press.Moham med also divulged that, in its final stages, the hijackin g plan called for as many as 22 terroristsand four planes in a first wave, followed by a second wave of suicide hijackings that were to be aidedpossibly by al-Qaida allies in southeast Asia, according to the reports.Over time, bin Laden scrapped various parts of the Sept. 11 plan, including attacks on both coasts andhijacking or bomb ing some planes in East Asia, Mohammed is quoted as saying in reports that shed newlight on the origins and ev olution of the plot of Sept. 11, 2001.Addressing one of the questions raised by congressional investigators in their Sept. 11 review,Mohammed said he never heard of a Saudi man named Omar al-Bayoumi who provided some rentmoney and assistance to two hijackers when they arrived in California.Congressional investigators have suggested Bayoumi could have aided the hijackers or been a Saudiintelligence agent, charges the Saudi government vehemently deny. The FBI has also cast doubt on thecongressional theory after extensive investigation and several interviews with al-Bayoumi.In fact, Mohammed claims he did not arrange for anyone on U.S. soil to assist hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi when they arrived in California. Mohammed said there "were no al-Qaidaoperatives or facilitators in the United States to help al-Mihdhar or al-Hazmi settle in the United States,"one of the reports state.Mohammed portrays those two hijackers as central to the plot, and even more important thanMoham med Atta, initially identified by Am ericans as the likely hijacking ringleader. Mohammed saidhe comm unicated with al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar while they were in the United States by using Internetchat software, the reports states.Mohamm ed said al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were among the four original operatives bin Laden assigned

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Dieter, et al: You should se e this before tomorrow's Commission meeting. Mr. Eggen clearlydoesn't know how hard you are working. SLK

Who Aided Hijackers Is Still MysteryFBI Disputes Findings Of Congressional InquiryBy Dan EggenWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, September 10, 2003; Page A01Two years after al Qaeda terrorists slammed jetliners into the Wo rld Trade Center and the Pentagon, FBI andcongressional investigators remain deeply divided over whether the 19 hijackers received help from other al Qaedaoperatives inside the United States and still are unable to answ er som e of the central questions in the case.

The uncertaintiespersist despite the largest FBI investigation in U.S. history --which has ncluded 180,000interviews and 7,000 agen ts -- and raise the possibility that Ame ricans will never know precisely how the cons pirators wereable to pull off the most devastating terrorist attacks in U.S. history."We know quite a bit about the attacks," FBI counterterrorism chief Larry Mefford said last week."Unfortunately, we don't know everything."Some of the doubts surround intriguing details: Investigators still have no firm grasp on why thehijacker pilotsbooked layovers in LasVegas during apparent practice runs oncommercial airliners in 2001.Authorities also have foun d no definitive explanation for why ringleader Moham ed Atta and another hijacker, AbdulazizAlomari, began their suicidal journey on Sept. 11, 2001, with a seemingly risky commuter flight from Portland, Maine, toBoston -- coming within minutes of m issing their flights o ut of both cities. And w hat exactly was discusse d at a pivotalmeeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000, where investigators believe -- but cannot prove -- that the Sept. 11 plot was put inmotion?But perhaps the biggest riddle -- one that has only become murkier in recent months centers on thesupport given to the hijackers while they were laying the groundwork for the attacks, and what thatsuggests abou t a pre-existing network of operatives in the U n i t e d States.A recent congressional inquiry raises the possibility that al Qaeda supporters w ere in place in thiscountry to help the hijackers; w ere aware of at least some aspects of the plot; and may have beensupported by elements of another government, S a u d i A r a b i a . I f t r u e , t h a t c o u l d m e a n t h a t domestic accomplices tot h e attacks a r e s t i l l a t l a r g e .

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BY RAY LUSTETHE WASHNGTON POST

Davjd Aufhauser, left, Treasury Department general counsel,andLarryA. Mefford, assistant director of the FBI'siDivision,testify about thegrowing WahhaMinfluence interrorism in theUnited States.

Saudi Strain of Islam Faultedy & U - F u n d e d W ahhabism Em braced by Terrorists, Exper t s Say

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ma rare congressional hearing onaudi funding of extremism, twoU&rsenators and a panel of terror-isexperts said yesterday that topSaudi officials and institutionsspe'nid huge sums from the king-dom's oilwealthtopromoteanintol-ejfeftt school of Islam embracedby alQa'dfla andother terrorist groups.QThe problem we are looking atis the state-sponsored doc-and funding of an extremistthat provides the recruit-, support infrastructureandmonetary lifeblood to today's in-ternational terrorists,"said Sen. JonK^f jR-Ariz.), who chaired the hear-$W the Senate JudiciaryCommit-i panel.

t administration officials_ ,_ avoided suggesting that SaudiA$iSi|a,animportant U.S. ally, is theAMfj's leading source of terroristftplmg, Treasury Department gen-eM%ounsel DavidAufhauser testi-fieliDyesterday that "in many ways,[Slftidi Arabia] is the epicenter" fo ra2fc[cing Q f Osama bin Laden's

L network and other terror-are not at war with a faith,any particular sect," Auf-said. But he added that Is-'severe anduncompromising"movement "is a very im-it factor to be taken into ac-when discussing terrorist fi-twauser added that the Saudis'largely unmonitored spending to

sahs [Islamic schools] thatcondemnpluralism and mark nonbelievers asenemies ... It needs to be dealtwith."Wahhabism was founded in the18th century by the cleric Muham-mad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, whopreached an austere brand of Islamthat barkens totheprophet Moham-med. Historians say the modernSaudi state is led by anallianceofhisfollowers, who handle the king-dom's religious affairs, and theroyalSaud family.Saudi Embassy officials did notrespond to requests for commentyesterday evening. But in the pastthey and their defenders have saidcriticsofWahhabismexhibit ananti-Islamic bias andwant to disrupt theU.S.-Saudi alliance. Saudi officialsdiscourage the use of the term Wah-habism to describe their religiousview, preferringthe term Salafism.Witnesses at the hearing did notprovide many details about the Sau-di religious establishment's spend-ing practices around the worldaproblem confronted by Wahhab-ism's critics for years, in part be-cause of the Saudis' traditional se-crecy about their affairs.Alex Atexiev, an expert on ex-tremist movements and a fellow atthe conservativeCeifter for SecurityPolicy, cited figures inSaudi govean-ment reports showing that between1975 and2002,the government hadspent $70 billion on aid projectsaround the world. He said it wasun-clear whether thisincluded the largesums in private donations doled outbySaudi-regulated foundations.

that each year it prints 13million Is-lamicbooks,dispatches 3,000prose-rytizers,and founds 1,100 mosques,schools andcenters.Aufhauser also mentioned al-Ha-ramain, saying that after the recentsynchronized bombings of severalresidential compounds inSaudi Ara-bia that killed 34 people, includingeight Americans, Saudi officialsdosed 10 of the charity's officesaround the world. Al-Haramain'sboard of directors was purged, headded, and "a significant numberofprominent fundraisers" were arrest-edSaudi officials had dragged theirfeet formonths in cracking downonal-Haramain, in part because of itsinfluence in the highest circles ofSaudi society, U.S. officials said pri-vately.But yesterdayAufhauser saidthat since the May 12suicide bomb-ings there, Saudi officials haveworked closely with the UnitedStates todampdownonIslamic rad-icals.Muslim convert StephenSchwartz, author ofTheTwo Facesof Islam," a book that warns of thespread ofWahhabism, said the Sau-dis established and continue to fi-nancehundreds ofmosquesandcen-ters in this country, aswell as someof the nation's leading Muslim activ-ist organizations. They also controlthe training and appointment ofmanyimams, he said.'The Wahhabi presend in theUnited States is a foreboding onethat has potentially harmful and far-reaching consequences for our na-tion's mosmies.srfinols nrisnns an/1


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B y J E K K Y M A R K O NWashington Post Staff Writer

miisses U.S. Birial Interview*A federal appeals court yesterday dismissed thegovernment's appeal of a ruling that would allowalleged Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaouito interview a senior al Qaeda operative, settingup a possible confrontation between the executivean d judicial branches. 'vTh e opinion by the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 4thCircuit did not address theoverriding constitutional is-sue of whether Moussaoui'sright to interview witnesseswho could help his defenseoutweighs the government'snational security concerns.Rather, the decision w asbased on jurisdictionalgrounds, with the membersof a three-judge panel sayingthey were "compelled to con-clude that we are withoutau -

Moussaou! facesth e death penalty if ,he is convicted. " -VUUV (JAU1 T*CUVVYtliUU>ttU"thorny" to rule because the government w as pjermature in makingits appeal. , .-Still, the decision will have a major effect ontte.prosecution of Moussaoui, the only personcharged in the United States in connection ^ttouu *&v.u in me oiiii,cu omi.cs in connection W U Uthe Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and cases againstture terrorism suspects. Experts and sourishclose to th e case said the Richmond-based appealscourt essentially gave the government tw p * v j tions: defy the order of a federal judge an d suffQ-\ ' J_E*V_S ee H p U S S A O U I . X l j O . C o l . 4 _ K i '

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victed.Government officials reiteratedyesterday that they will neverturn overBinalshibh."I guessyougo back to the judge an d say,'Okay, judge, we aren't comply-i n g . What are you going to do?'"on e government official said. T hejudge would then punish prosecu-tors for defying he r order. E x-perts and those close to the casesaid those sanctions could includemaking Moussaoui ineligible forthe death penalty or dismissingthe charges altogether.Some government officials cau-tioned that they have not made afinal decision about what to donext and said that call would be

peal biiVthat "the court has notye t ruled on the merits of the is-sueaccess to an alien seizedabroad as an enemy combatant inthe midst of a war."S he said government lawyersar e studying the procedural is-sues raised by the court. "W e lookforward to bringing ZacariasMoussaoui to justice," she said.The 4th Circuit initially sentthe case back to Brinkema to seewhether the prosecution and de-fense could work out a compro-mise. After that effort failed, thethree judgesW illiam W . W il-kins Jr., Karen Williams an d Rog-er Gregoryheard oral argu-ments on the government's

appeal June 3. * The case has become a majortest of the constitutional rightl ofcdefendants to question witne ion their behalf versus the govqJVment's right to make key nation**!security decisions. The court*ae-Jknowledged the high stakes i t f e 'the first sentence of yesterdjy%15-pageopinion, authored by wt*kins, saying that "this appeal is-one of extraordinary impor-tance."Yet the judges said they had toleave the constitutional issues?to-resolved because they lacked^%risdiction to even hear the'ap-*Peal- * ' - Brinkema's decision would, MS,come "final"and therefore S U D - *ject to appealonly if "the j j j e v ?eminent refused to comply a j j t f *the district court orders a s^Tc-^tion," the judges said. "Despiteindications that it will refuse 4 o


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Networkand SUSAN S C H M I D TWashing ton P o s t S t a f f W r i te r s' Federal prosecutors yesterday an-nounced ~ indictments against 11members of wh at they called a "Vir-,-ginia jihad network" who arecharged with training to work withterrorists to fight for M uslim causesin foreign nations.* ; * _ * The 42-count indictment, re-turned by a grand jury Wednesdayand unsealed yesterday in U.S. Dis-. trict Court in Alexandria, chargesthat the men trained with and fought" for Lashkar-i-Taiba, a group that istrying to drive India from Kashmir. and has been nam ed a terrorist orga-nization by the U.S. governmentt Federal agents arrested six of the. men yesterday in raids in the Wash- ington suburbs and in Pennsylvania., lfro were in custody as part of theinvestigation that began in 2000,and three are living in Saudi Arabia.Th e menincluding nine U.SJ titi-Z ^ H S f ac e weapons counts andcharges of violating the NeutralityA c j t , which bars Americans or U.S.

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mues iruui X ^ O I H I U I **ui, ..citizens allegedly met, plotted andrecruited for violent jihad," said PaulJ." McNutty, the U.S. attorney in A l-exandria. "These indictments are astark rem inder that terrorists of var-ious allegiances are active in theUnited States.". There is no evidence tha t the m en'See INDI CT ,AW , Col . 1

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the investigation. "A lot of this isabout preemption."One of those charged, RandallTodd Royer, arrested yesterday athis home in fells Church, charac-

|p members as insignificanttwh, gosh, they have weapons,"Royer, a former spokesman for[Organizations as the Council ondean-Islamic Relations and theim American Society. "I reaDyI t the idea that a Muslim with afhe's a threat A Jew with &[he's not athreat*~~~orneys' and spokesmen for'of the others arrested yester-lid the men are being targetedB e they are Muslims. Three ofarrested had planned a newsence yesterday to complain ofarassment. Attorney Ashrafiand fathers of two of the m ened instead to insist that theid done nothing wrong.{Lyon, the father of HammadRaheem, who was arresteday, angrily told reporters thathad served in the PersianIT and "is a loyal citizen toatry, the same as I am."indictment says the menit private and military fire-t ies in Northern Virginia tofor missions in Kashmir,_j , the Philippines and otherplaces. Three of the menAbdur-

Raheem, Donald Thomas Surrattand SeintUah Chapmanare ac-cused of instructing the men in com-bat tactics baaed on (heir own expe-riences in the U.S.indictment says.

Specifically, the men are accusedof practicing small-unit military tac-tics on private property in Spot-games, weapons and equipment tosimulate actual combat "in prep-aration for violent jihad," the in-dictment says.Nubani dismissed the allegationsinvolving paintbau, an increasinglypopular game in which people shooteach other with quarter-size ballsfilled with colored liquid. The menwere involved in innocent "sport ac-tivity,'' such as "horseback ridingand outdoor activities includingpaintbaU," Nubani said. He saidsome of the men did go to Kashmir, a .Himalayan region claimed by Indiaand Pakistan.One of Nubani's clients, AhmedAbu-Ali, was taken into custody bySaudi Arabian authorities on suspi-cion that he is connected to theMay 12 bombings in Riyadh, Hisfamily's home in Falls Church wasrecently searched by the FB I as partof the local investigation, Nubanisaid. U.S. officials have made in-formal requests to the Saudi govern-ment for access to Abu-Ali bu t havereceived no response.Th e men also are accused of gath-ering at the Dar el Arkum mosqueon South W ashingtonStreet in FallsChurch "to hear lectures on therighteousness of violent jihad inKashmir, Chechnya and other places


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Counterstrike: How Police Turned Bali Blast Into Win In War on TerrorismIndonesian-Australian Team Went High- and Low-Tech To Largely Hobble NetworkLaughing Man's Phone List

By Leslie Lopez and John McBeth2,306 words2 July 2003The Wall Street JournalAlEnglish(Copyright (c) 2003, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)DENPASAR, Indonesia -- One of Indonesia's top detectives was deeply troubledlast November as he scaled the staircase to Bali's biggest Hindu temple toimplore the gods.Three weeks earlier, Muslim militants had detonated two bombs on the resortisland's nightclub strip, reducing an entire city block to smoking rubble andkilling 202 people, 80 of them Australian tourists. It was the biggestterrorist strike since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., and the policewere feeling the heat.The detective tasked to lead a joint Indonesian and Australian investigationinto the blast, I Made Pastika, was making little progress. While hislieutenants sifted through debris from the bombing site, Mr. Pastika, a soft-spoken 52-year-old Hindu who grew up in Bali, went to pray for abreakthrough. "I had a feeling we were missing something," he says.After an hour of meditation, Mr. Pastika received an urgent call from acolleague: His team had identified the serial number of the engine in the truckused to carry a one-ton bomb. "I don't know how we missed it before," he says.Two days later, he arrested his first suspect, an Indonesian man named Amrozi.The big break led to more than just the uncovering of the Bali bomb plot. Italso helped police largely hobble Southeast Asia's most deadly terrorist group.And it propelled Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, from whatthe U.S. saw as the region's weakest link in the war on terror to a valuedally.This transformation over a matter of weeks came about partly becauseIndonesia's political leaders set aside their traditionally strong sense ofnationalism to allow ordinary policemen to go about their work. And those

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Mail:: INBOX: Re: Kashmiri Arrests Here Raise Spectre of New Terror Front Page 1 of 1

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Subject: Re: Kashmiri Arrests Here Raise Spectre of New Terror FrontLashkar-e-Taiba is an especially aggressive and vicious group. It hasparticipated in numerous, often sizeable attacks on Indian forces in Kashmir.I believe that it also is involved in some of the anti-Christian attacks inPakistan as well as attacks on Pakistani Shia. The Pakistani safehouse whereAbu Zubaydah was captured reportedly belonged to Lashkar. Ties to Al Qaedawould be no surprise.



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Subject: A bit more on Lashkar-e-TaibaLashkar is the latest name for a group that has gone through several labels.Among the delightful actions it committed under its previous name, Harikat alAnsar, was the kidnapping and ultimate beheading of Western hikers captured inKashmir. Also confirmed that some of its personnel trained with al Qaeda inAfghanistan. Of all the Kashmiri Islamist groups, Lashkar is the most violent(no easy title to win in that crowd)



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Matthew A. LevittSenior Fellow in Terrorism StudiesThe Washington Institute for Near East Policy1828 L Street, NW Suite 1050Washington, DC 20036Tel. 202-452-0650Fax 202-223-5364mattl@washingtoninstitute.orgwww.washingtoninstitute.org

(f) 2.1 unnamed text/plain 12.08KB3from the June 17, 2003 edition -http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0617/p01s04-woap.htmlHow Al Qaeda lit the Bali fuse: Part oneNightclub bombings grew out of a network forged by marriage, training,and aidBy Dan Murphy | Special to The Christian Science MonitorCIJAMBU, INDONESIA - Mira Agustina was surprised to get the call at theIslamic boarding school where she had been cloistered since she turned18. "Come home,'' her father said."There's someone who wants to marryyou.Ms. Agustina slipped on the black, tentlike dress her father, HarisFadillah, had taught her to wear in public; packed a small bag; and lefton the 12-hour bus ride to Cijambu, West Java. Arriving early the nextmorning, she was introduced to Mohammed Assegof, a young man with Arabfeatures. Ms. Agustina, then 21, married him that day.Mr. Fadillah never explained why he was uniting his daughter to thisstranger. But "my father must have trusted my husband completely,''Agustina said in an April interview, as she played with her toddler inthe sparsely furnished family home here. "Otherwise, he wouldn't haveallowed him to marry me."US and Indonesian investigators agree. Her marriage in July 1999, theysay, helped cement an alliance between Indonesian militants and Al Qaedathat culminated in the October 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202people, most of them foreign tourists dancing at a nightclub.The trials of two of the men implicated in those bombings got under waylast month in Bali. A third - of Mukhlas, the man alleged to be theoperations chief of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) - beganMonday.

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To: " " #Subject: Fwd: HEADLINE: How Al Qaeda lit the Bali fuse: Part twoPart(s): | 2 unnamed me ssage/rfc822 12.26 KBgjjthis is part II of the piece I sent yesterdayMatthew A. LevittSenior Fellow in Terrorism StudiesThe Washington Institute for Near East Policy1828 L Street, N W Suite 1050Washington, D C 20036Tel. 202-452-0650Fax 202-223-5364mattl@washingtoninstitute.orgwww.washingtoninstitute.org

(Q 2.1 unnamed text/plain 11.93 KB @Copyright 2003 The Christian Science Publishing SocietyChristian Science Monitor (Boston, MA)June 18, 2003, WednesdaySECTION: WORLD; Pg. 10LENGTH: 1911 wordsHEADLINE: How Al Qaeda lit the Bali fuse: Part twoBYLINE: By Dan Murphy Special to the Christian Science MonitorDATELINE: MAKASSAR, INDONESIAHIGHLIGHT:Religious-teaching sessions that included films of Christian-Muslimconflict in Indonesia energized young men to join in jihad.BODY:The images from the hand-held camera jiggle as they zero in on a columnof irregulars shouldering homemade rifles and dressed in T-shirts andsandals. They're marching off to wage jihad against Christians,according to the caption on the screen.

As they file past the low terra-cotta roofs and whitewashed walls ofSiri Sori village and into the surrounding banana and coconut groves,the camera focuses on a smiling man in a black T-shirt. As he turns andwaves, a new caption identifies him as "the artyr Abu Dzar" - killed inaction against Christians on Oct. 23, 2000.Abu Dzar was the nom de guerre of Haris Fadillah, leader of the LaskarMujahidin, a militia group that cranked up the violence in theMuslim-Christian war that erupted in Indonesia's Maluku provinces in1999 and inspired a generation of Indonesian militants.

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Matthew A. LevittSenior Fellow in Terrorism StudiesThe Washington Institute for Near East Policy1828 L Street, NW Suite 1050Washington, DC 20036Tel. 202-452-0650Fax 202-223-5364mattl@washingtoninstitute.orgwww.washingtoninstitute.org

(H 2.1 unnamed text/plain 14.36KB @Copyright 2003 The Christian Science Publishing SocietyChristian Science Monitor (Boston, MA)June 19, 2003, ThursdaySECTION: WORLD; Pg. 01LENGTH: 2323 wordsHEADLINE: How Al Qaeda lit the Bali fuse: Part threeBYLINE: By Dan Murphy Special to The Christian Science MonitorDATELINE: JAKARTA, INDONESIAHIGHLIGHT:A bomber tries to realize his vision of a global Muslim uprisingBODY:Imam Samudra may well be the most hate-filled and defiant of the men ontrial for last year's terror attack in Bali.On June 2, as he entered court to face charges that he was the fieldcommander for the bombing that claimed 202 lives at two nightclubs, Mr.Samudra pumped his fist into the air and exhorted his lawyers to joinhim in chanting "God is great."He has told journalists he was gladdened by the deaths, informedinterrogators that God will reward the attackers, and described a decadeof plotting that led to the most devastating terrorist act sinceSeptember 11.He has also confessed without remorse to participating in six fatalbombings.Samudra is a "true believer" - a member of that tiny minority in any

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'Hundreds' in United States Believed Tied to al Qaeda, United Nations ToldFederal investigators have discovered a widespread militant Islamic presence in the United States and believeseveral hundred of the extremists have links to al Qaeda, the government said in a report to the UnitedNations Security Council . "We judge the greatest threat to be an al Qaeda cell in the United States that hasnot yet been detected or identified," the report said. "Identifying and neutralizing these sleeper cells remainsour most serious intelligence and law enforcement challenge."The report, submitted in April to a SecurityCounci l committee established in 1999 to monitor sanctions against the Taliban regime and Osama binLaden, was released publicly June 9. The United States also warne d that al Qaeda remains capable of causing"signif icant casualties in the United States" with little or no warning. "We judge that there is a highprobability that al Qaeda wil l attempt an attack using a [chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear] weaponwithin the next two years," the report said. Chris Logan

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The CQ/HLS Interview: 10 Questions for 'After ' Author Steven BrillBy David Clarke, CQ Staff WriterIn "After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era,"journalist Steven Brill paints a portrait ofa country whose citizens, politicians, bureaucrats and interest groups, in the months following the Sept.11 terrorist attacks, struggled to make A merica safe from terrorismwhile closelyguarding their ownbest interests.Th e picture is not alway s pretty.But Brill ultimately concludes that these colliding forces created a response that for the most part works an d proves the resiliency of what he calls the "Americansystem."A lawyer and founder of The A merican Lawy er magazine,Court TV and Brill's Co ntent, Brill, 52, tellsthe tale of post-Sept. 11 America through the experiencesof people immediately affected by theattacks, among them Eileen Simo n, the widow of an energy trader at Cantor Fitzgerald;RobertLindemann, a border inspector in Detroit; CharlesE. Schumer,the New York Democraticsenator; andJohn Ashcroft, the U.S. attorney general.The book, published in April, covers the year following th e attacks.It includes an epilogue written inJanuary 2003.On Tuesday afternoon,Billgot on the phone in his office in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center and talked to CQHomeland Security about his book and about America 21 months after Sept. 11.

CQ: How did you go about choosing the peope whose experiences you used to tell your story?

Brill: I wanted to make sure I had a representative of all the issues I wanted to cover. This sounds kind of cynical, but Iviewed these peope as vehicles for discussing issues. Some of them are obvious, like Ashcroft and Ridge, but a Customsinspector, Kevin McCabe, who's an inspector at the port in Elizabeth, N.J., and is a major character in the book, I chose himbecause I wanted to make sure the book was not simpy a Washington policy book but covered the ground from Washingtonto the actual paces where policy changes were actually carried out and see if they worked. What I was going for was acombination of Bob Woodward and Jonathan Harr [who wrote "A Civil Action"].CQ: One of the most interesting peope you follow is Kenneth Feinberg, special master of the Victim Compensation Fund.You portray him as being very capable of handling the legal and technical aspects of setting up and administering th e fundbut lacking sensitivity when it comes to dealing with the families, which led to some hard feelings. What do you think thelegacy of his work will be?

Brill: I think it'sgoing to be a success. In fact, I know it's going to be a success because I know what the numbers are. Ithink you'll see an avalanche of the remaining appications between now and the deadline [Dec. 22, 2003]. But in Feinberg I

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Beers's resignation surprised Washing!ton, but what he did next w as even more; ai-tounding. E ight weeksafter leaving he BusjiWhite House, he volunteered as national se-'curity adviser for Sen. John F. Kerry (M ass.),a Democratic candidate for president in acampaign to oust his former boss. A l l ofwhich points to a question: W hat does this L ., j - j iUintelligence insider know? *ever it was viewed made the' ' onlookers saw it as aevent "I can't thinkhi the last 30a person who has done: ' ""* jhing so extreme," said Paul C., _ , ' .a scholar with the BrookingsTlnstifution. "He's not just declaringthat he's a D emocrat. He's declaringthat he's a Kerry Democrat and theway he wants to make a difference inthe world is to get his former bossout of office."Although Beers has worked inthree Republican administrations,he is a registered Democrat Hewanted to leave the NSC quietly, sowhen he resigned, he said it was f o r"personal reasons." His friendscalled,worried: "Are you sick?"When Beers joined the WhiteHouse counterterrorism team lastAugust the unit had suffered severalabrupt departures. People hadwarned him the job was impossible,but Beers was upbeat On Reagan's

' ' Causes ol terror, ne said. '1cult, long -term issues both at home'and abroad have been avoided, ne -;gfected or shortchanged and gener-ally underfunded."The focus on Iraq has robbed do-mestic security of manpower, brain-pdwer and money, he said. The Iraqwar created fissures in the UnitedStates' counter-terrorism alliances,_ he said, and could breed a new gen-i o f alQaeda recruits. M any of\t colleagues, he said,Iraq was an "ill-conceivedexecuted strategy."[continue to be puzzled by it"(Beers, who did not oppose thejhbut thought it should have been

down -anyone. Every day, 500 to1,000 pieces of threat informationcrossed his desk. The typical mix in-cluded suspicious surveillance at aU.S. embassy, surveillance of a nu-clear power plant or a bridge; a per- 'son caught by airport security with aweapon, or an airplane flying tooclose to the CIA; a tanker truck,which mig ht contain a bomb,cross-ing he border an d heading for a city,an intercepted phone call betweensuspected terrorists. M ost of thetopsecret reportspumped into hiso f f i c e from the White House Situa-tion Roomdidn't pan out Oftenthey came from a disgruntled em-ployee or a spouse.When the chemical agent richsurfaced in the London subway, "wewere worried it might manifesthere," he said. The challenge was:"Who do we alert? How do you tellthem to organiz e?"Every time the government raisesan alarm, it costs time and money."There's less filtering now becausepeople don't wan t to make the mis-take of not warning ," he said. BeforeSept 11,2001, the o f f i c e met threetimes a week to discuss intelligen ce.N o w , twice a day, at 7ajn. an d3 p.m., it holds "threat matrix meet-ings," tracking the threats on CIAspreadsheets.It was Beers's task to evaluate thewarnings and to act on them. It'samonstrous responsibility,'' said Wil-liam Wechsler, director for transna-tional threats on Clinton's NSC s t a f f .

" Y o u sit around every day, thinkingabout how people want to kill thou-sands of Americans."Steven Simon, director for coun-terterrorism in the Clinton WhiteHouse, said, "When we read a pieceo f intelligence, we'd apply the oldhow-straight-does-your-hair-stand-up-on-your-head test"The government's first counterter-rorism czar, Richard Clarke, who lefthis W hite House ob in February aftermore than 10 years, said o f f i c i a l sjudged the human ntelligence basedon two factors: Would the sourcehave access to the information? How 'reliable was his previous reporting ?They scored access to information,1 2 3 4 5 ; previous reporting, abed. "Ascore of D 5, you don't beHeve. A Iyou do," Clarke said. "It's like a olt ofespresso, and 'you f e e l likewhoop it pumps you up, and wakesyou up."It's easier to raise the threat lev-,elfrom code y e f l o w to code orange ,for exampletiian to lower it Beerssaid: "It'seasier to see the increase in s

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Officials say that Jemaa h Islamiyah is allied to bin Laden's A l Qaeda network and that its aim is todeclare a pan-Islamic state a cross southeast Asia.Mukhlas wa s among fo ur key suspects in last year's Bali bombings to testify We dnesda y atBashir's trial.Bashir, 64, is not accus ed of the Bali bombings. He is on trial for allegedly plotting to overthrowIndonesia's government and is accused of ordering a series of church bombings in 2000 thatkilled 19 people.If convicted, he could fac e the death penalty.Bashir flatly denied involvement with Jemaah Islamiyah. His supporters in court repeatedlyinterrupted proceedings w ith cries of "Allah is great!"

7) Morocco Indicts 6 More Suspects in Casablanca Blasts; Investigators are concernedabout the setbacks dealt by the death of a key detainee.By Sebastian RotellaLos Angeles TimesMoroccan authorities announced the indictments of six more suspects Thursday in this month'ssuicide bombings in Casablanca, a case that has taken an unexpected twist with the death incustody of a chief suspect.Authorities provided n ew details a bout the dead man, who allegedly o rganized the synchron izedattacks that killed 43 people on May 16. The suspect, a 30-year-old who owned a small shoestore in the city of Fez, had been ill with chronic heart problems a nd a sev erely enlarged livercaused by medication, o fficials said.An autopsy established that he died of na tural caus es Wednes day after being arrested two daysearlier in Fez, according to M orocca n and Spanish officials. His condition wors ened during aninterrogation and he died en route to the hospital, authorities said."He wa s gravely ill when he was arrested," Shakib Larousi, a Moroccan government spokesman,said in a telephone interview. "The prosecutors found no indications that he had been physicallyabused."Moroccan officials reiterated their suspicions Thursday that international terrorists played asupervisory role in the attacks, which we re carried out by Moroccan extremists. Europeaninvestigators said the investigation has reinforced their view that the Al Qa eda terrorist networkinspired and directed the bombers, who were w orking-class men in their late teens and early 20s.Nonetheless, the alleged organizer's death contributes to unanswered questions about a ca se inwhich Moroccan police are being assisted by investigators from Spain, France, Italy, the UnitedStates and other countries. Spanish, French a nd Italian citizens were am ong those killed, butmost of the victims w ere Moroccan.Saying they wan ted to keep the investigation confidential, Morocca n officials declined to disclos ethe full name of the alleged ringleader Thursday. They identified him only by his f i rst name,Abdelhak, and his nickname, Moul Sebbat, which means "shoe seller."European investigators express ed conc ern Thursday a bout complications arising from the deathof Abdelhak, who as a suspected leader would have been key to uncovering the Moroccan


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also received a report that a firearm was used ... I hope this commissioninvestigates and credibly determines whether the public was deceived."

3) In Moroccan Slum, Zealotry Took Root; Bombers Linked to Al Qaeda Worked Under Radar ofAuthoritiesBy Peter FinnWashington PostCASABLANCA, Morocco -- By 4:30 p.m. on May 16, five hours before they were scheduled to die insynchronized bombings, the 14 men had assembled in a cinderblock shack with a corrugated tin roof held downby rocks. Most of the volunteers, between the ages of 21 and 32, already knew each other, having grown uptogether in the surrounding garbag e-strewn slum of lean-tos linked by dirt alleyways.At first they prayed, Moroccan government investigators said, exercising the fierce faith that m ost ha d onlyrecently found. And then Mohamed Omari, 24, a parking lot attendant, laid o ut the plan in slow detail. Fiveteams, Omari said, would disperse to five targets in the city and detonate explosives carried in backpacks atexactly 9:30 p.m. Each man was handed a new Casio watch to ensure simultaneous blasts.The men who gathered in the slum known as Carriere Thom as that afternoon knew that this was to be the dayof their deaths. B ut none, until then, had known the dimensions of the attack, acco rding to senior Moroccanofficials who have interrogated two survivors from the group, including Omari, as well as other accomplices.As dusk fell, they prayed again. Then, between 8 and 8:30 p.m., the teams left one by one to make the tripdowntown in the little red taxis found almost everywhere in this port city. They headed for a lively Spanishrestaurant, a Jewish-owned Italian restaurant, a Jewish social club and the Jewish cemetery. Omari's group,destined for the Farah Hotel, was the last to leave.The targets, Moroccan officials said, were either connected to Jews or were so-called places of "debauchery."Then the bombs went off, one after the other. The attackers killed 32 people at the five locations. Elevenbombers also died. Three of the conspirators, including Omari, apparently changed their minds at the lastminute.The Casablanca attacks, Mo roccan officials said, w ere the work of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network,months in the making and ordered by Abu M usab Zarqawi, a Jordanian who obtained between $50,000 a nd$70,000 from the organization's leadership to finance the s trikes.Zarqawi is the head of al Tawhid, a group that intelligence analysts previously thought was only allied with alQaeda, but which increasingly appears to them to be indistinguishable from bin Laden's organization. U.S.intelligence officials sa y that Zarqawi was taking refuge in Iraq before the recent wa r there, but is now probablyin Iran."Zarqawi gave the order to make attacks and found the finances," said a senior Moroccan official. "He is the onewho set up the whole thing."'^ - - ^ jThe nearly simultaneous detonation of the bombs immediately pointed to al Qaeda, for which coordinatedstrikes are a signature tactic. And the bombmaking recipe, except for a simple detonation device that the menused, was one that followed al Qaeda manuals found in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, according to ?Moroccan officials. Investigators here believe a bom bmaker was sent to Mo rocco by al Qaeda to instruct therecruits.The Casablanca plot illustrated al Qaeda's lethal adaptability in the face of intense security measures directedagainst it around the world.

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NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATESPress Clips for June 2, 2003

_ _""HEADLINES***1) Integrity, Intelligence And Iraq (WP)2) Hearing to Affect Government's Ability to Try Terror Suspects in Civilian Courts (NYT)3) A Resilient Al Qaeda Regroups and Plots; U.S. fears the network may use untraceableoperatives for attacks on such targets as subways (LAT)4) A new strain of al Qaeda (WT)5) Audit Finds Big Problems in Handling of 9/11 Detentions (NYT)6) 9/11 Lawsuits for the Justice Department? The release of a report critical of the DOJ's post-Sept. 11 roundup of terror suspects could mean legal action against some officials (TIME)7) Justice Dept. Report Faults Post-9/11 Detention Practice (WP)8) Post 9/11 Anti-Terror Sweep Criticized (LAT)9) Hard to Kill (Newsweek)10) Trial Opens of the Accused Bali Bombing Mastermind (NYT)11) Sensors MayTrack Terror's Fallout Region Gets First Fallout Sensors (WP)12) Judge Raises Question in Moussaoui Case (AP)13) Witness Said Ready to Testify on Al Qaeda Suspect (AP)14) Toll Rises in Saudi Attacks; Ninth American dies of injuries from Riyadh bombings; FBIdirector points to Al Qaeda (AP)

***FULL-TEXT***1) Integrity, Intelligence And IraqBy Jeffrey H. SmithWashington PostGeorge Tenet probably has the toughest job in America. The intelligence community and the CIAin particular are being sharply questioned about the gap between what was predicted in Iraq andwhat has been found. Critics of the war are screaming that the CIA did not anticipate the chaos,looting and political instability in Iraq. A group of retired intelligence analysts have written thepresident charging that systemic "warping" of intelligence "misled" Congress into voting for thewar. On Friday, both Tenet and Secretary of State Colin Powell responded by making unusualpublic statements in defense of the intelligence community and their own actions.Although the intelligence community got much right that enabled an extraordinary military victory,it appears to have gotten much wrong about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destructionand his link with al Qaeda.Time will tell whether the CIA was right about these matters. But in the meantime a more seriouscharge has emerged, namely that the CIA's analysis leading up to the war was altered underpressure by the administration to overstate the threat Hussein presented. As a result, thecredibility of the intelligence community-and the United States -- is at risk.Therefore hard questions must be asked. At least three investigations are asking those questions,including the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, an internal review ordered by Tenetand a further internal review requestedby congressional oversight committees. Among thequestions that should be asked:* What did we know before the war and how does it compare with what we found?


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A l Qaeda is clearly weaker than it was at the fo rmal comm ence me nt of the war on terrorism, o nOctober 7, 2001. It has been deprived of operational bases an d training camps in Afghanistan.Its command-and-contro l capabi l i ties have been disrupted. I ts headquarters have b eendestroyed. Its leaders an d f ighters have been forcibly dispersed, an d they are now consumed asmuch by providing for t he i r own securi ty as by planning and exe cut ing at tacks . Co mm unicat ion andcoordination among th e disparate parts o f al Qaeda's global network are more inconvenientif notnecessarily less ef fec t ivethan ever b efore . These se tbacks have forced al Qaeda to alter its target ingpatterns. D isplaced an d harried, its operat ives must no w rely on local groups to carry o ut their plansa n d , as a resul t , have focuse d o n "softer," mo re accessible targets , in places as diverse as Tunisia,Pakistan, Jordan, Indonesia, Kuwait, th e Phil ippines, Yem en, an d Kenya. These have includedGerman, Austral ian, and Israel i tourists; French eng inee r s and a French o il t anker ; and such long-standing targets as U.S. diplomats an d servicemen.B ut not everyth ing has change d, of course; al Qaeda re mains a powerful threat . Th e o rganization hascont inued to use suicide b o m b i n g , b o t h at sea and on land, an d commerc i a l aviat ion remains afocusas was made clear in December of 2001, w h e n th e shoe bo mbe r R ichard Reid attempted tob low up an Amer i can Airlines plane e n route from Paris to Miami , and t hen e l even m onth s la ter ,w h e n a group in Ken ya w ith links to al Qaeda tried to shoo t do wn an Israeli charter flight using ahand-held surface- to-air missile.Al Qaeda has , in fact, proved to be remarkably nimble and adapt iveand th e group 's strengthderives precisely from its flexibility. T he loss o f Afghanis tan may thus , in the long run , have litt leeffect on al Qaeda 's ability to ha rm us . Some of al Qaeda 's b igges t p lo t sam ong them RamziYousef s 1993 b o m b i n g of the W orld Trade Ce nter , and his subsequ ent fai led plot to bom b twelveU . S . commercia l aircraft o v e r th e Pacif icpredate th e group 's s t rong presence in Afghan i s t an , w h i c hfo r al Qaeda was impor tan t mainly as a base f rom w hich to prosecute a convent ional civil war againstth e late A h m a d Shah M assoud 's Nor the rn All iance . T h i s conf l ic t requi red arms dumps, t ra in ingcamps, staging areas, and networks of forward and rear headquar te r sbut none o f t hese specificfacilities are necessary to an ongo ing in ternat ional t e r r o r i sm campa ign .Al Qaeda 's core leadership is still alive and at la rgeperhaps only a third of its leaders are now deado r captured. Moreo ver , the two m o s t impor tant f igures in al Qaeda, Osama b in L aden and Ayman al-


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Firof, Operative OfferedJudge an Apology and a BlessingBy BENJAMIN WEISER

A former A l Qaeda operative whorecently pleaded guilty in New Yorkto a conspiracy charge has written toa judge renouncing his actionsagainst the United States and sayinghe has been treated fairly in theAmerican court system.The former operative, MohamedSuleiman al Nalfi, of Sudan, apolo-gized in his letter for "the wrongs Ihave done," and said he has neverfelt animosity toward the UnitedStates. "May God keep and bless theAmerican justice system and thecourts," Mr. al Nalfi wrote to JudgeKevin Thomas Duffy of Federal Dis-trict Court inManhattan.Mr. al Nalfi was taken to the Unit-ed States in 2000 and charged in thebroad terrorism conspiracy thatprosecutors say was led by Osamabin Laden and included the 1998 em-tepar bombings in East Africa. In

'* jSnuaryTMr. al Nalfi pleaded guiltyto a lesser charge of conspiring todestroy national defense materialsand wassentenced inFebruary to 10yearsfffi prison, the maximum term.A t the sentencing, Judge Duffysaid he had received a "truly veryinteresting" letter from Mr. al Nalfi,but ordered it sealed. The judge re-leased the letter recently at the re-quest of The New York Times.Given past cases involving terror-ism, the two-page letter is unusual inits contrition. When Ramzi AhmedYousef, wh ted the 1993 bombing ofthe World Trade Center, was sen-tenced in 1998, he declared that hewas a terrorist and "proud of it."

By contrast, Mr. al Nalfi wrotethat it was "fitting" for him to pleadguilty "for actions that were ulti-mately directed against a countrythat I admired, and a people whosehelp to my country was for all to seeduring the famine that befell Sudanduring the Reagan presidency."Mr. al Nalfi said he went to Af-ghanistan in 1988 to fight the Rus-sians. "I fought with U.S. madeweapons, thankful for the Ameri-cans' stand with us," he wrote.In Afghanistan, he wrote, "earlymembers of the Al Qaeda group re-cruited me, and what resulted of thatwas what I plead to.""Although I did those things," headded, "I nevertheless have learnedas I grew in age that I 'have donewrong, and since I came to thatconviction,I stopped working with AlQaeda."When he pleaded guilty, Mr. alNalfi, then 40,admitted in court thathe had created a jihad group in Su-dan in 1989 at the request of Al Qaedathat was going to be used to recruitSudanese citizens. He also said hehelped establish a route to smuggleweapons from Sudan to Egypt, andthat he attended a 1992 meetingwhere Al Qaeda officials discussedhow to forcibly remove Americanand United Nations forces from So-malia and Saudi ArabiaInhis letter, he said that he had notseen his actions as directed againstthe United States, but now he recog-nized that they were "criminal innature and against the law. Theseactions could not simply be erasedjust by the passing of time."


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Cleric Rejects ChargesA s Jakarta Trial Starts1 ': - ' , 'Bombing and Assassinat ion Plots Allegedor ELLEN NAKASHI MAWashing ton P o s t F o r e i g n S e r v i c e

[JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23:trial of a M uslim cleric accused[ trying to overthrow the govern-began today, with about 200shouting "AHahu Akbar!""A^nerika /IfcrJ^fsf as he e%"the courtroom.(Abubakar Baasyir, 64, an S f f i f cwith an ivory beard andsupporters bu t betrayed littleas the prosecution read a

himi attempting to replace the Indo-i government with an Islamice. It alleges that he approved a3 of church bombings on Christ-sEve 2000 that killed 19 people, aI pbt to bomb U.S. interests inand a plan aterassassinate M egawatirnoputri, now the president, in31,when she w as vice president[The process of reading the in-which took 68 minutes,in motion the highest-profile

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i after bom bing attacks in B a H[ October. Baasyir's case is widelyt as a test for M egawati, who isa resolve to combat terror-i with a need to show she is notIslam in the most-oop-3 MusKm nation in the world government a llrfethe leader of Jemaah Islamiah,| and the United States have la-l a terrorist group, and that po-;of conducting the attacks

f organization exists and said to-Itnat he was innocent of thewhich carry a mayingim;of l i f e in prison,do not accept the charges.! are lies from America," said;who wore a white tunic oversarong, a white prayer capiorange scarf.f we were not sure of the evi-e, we would not bring this case' said the chief prosecutor,iM adani.fc year ago, authorities refrainedarresting Baasyir, fearing it1 f u e l a backlash among Mus-i, who make up m ore than 80 per-t of Indonesia's 220 n r i f f i o n peo-

, as spiritual leader of Je-maah Islamiah, is "a very symbolicfigure," said Robin Bush, director ofthe blam and ti\Tlsotiety program

iicriHodof Ifyhiy toovuiUiimtiH?goverranent of Indonesia.at the Asia Fbundation. "From theregime's perspective, for the re-gime's credibility, if s important Aithe go to trial There are ial interests at stake here."Bush said the government is try-ing to "play o f f both skies" in m etrial They're hoping to have cot(rfete proof that they are taking * > tion against this alleged tenwtlftandi on the other hand, they arettiting a oned-downstance to appwMextremists," she said.A s an exampfc of the latter,Atd that Baasyir was not cbfil! involvement in the BaB! 'ings, which killed 20 2 people, iAustralian tthatpolicelthem w f t h evidence Unking himrectry to the attack.Muhammad Ismail. Yusanto,spokesman for the formerlyHizbut lahrir organLatios,ed that Baasyir wbuki betries. A conviction would "the MusKm community, he sakUJDtwould no t lead to violence.The opening o f the trial coinddWwith an announcementheadquarters that 18 Islamkitants had been arrested. A f l are (peeked members of

Police said N asir A bbas, a )sian reputed to be the leader of imaah T s l ^ f i n f a h cell thatnorthern Indonesia a n d t h e _ern Phflippines, was arrestedJakarta, hi central Java, police tr-rested Abo Rusdan, who has be*Bserving as Jemaah Islamiah's tedf^-rary leader.Of the 16 others arrested, threeare suspected in the B a h * bombing,polke said, bringing to 32 the nw-ber of suspects being held in connec-tion with the blasts.Spec ia l correspondents No o r H u d aI smai l a n d N at asha T a mp u b o l o ncontr ibuted to thi s report .


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Study Urges M o r e Action to Cu tRisks From W eapons Stockpiles

By JUDITH MILLERThe United States, Russia and Eu-rope shoulddofar more toreduce theurgent and "grave proliferationrisks" from their remaining stock-piles ofnuclear,biological and chem-ical weapons, concludes a new reportendorsed by a consortium of influen-tial private research centers.Specifically, the report concludes,the United States and its Europeanallies must begin treating Russia asa partner in such efforts rather thanas a strategic charity case.For its part, the report says, Rus-sia must become more open and re-move obstacles to cooperation topre-

vent the world's most lethal armsand technology from spreading torogue states and terrorist groups.The four-volume report was con-ceived as one of the most compre-hensive public assessments of a dec-ade of Americanand allied efforts tohelp Russia secure its strategicarms stockpiles and todangers posed by its cold war lega-cies of vast unconventional armsstockpiles and personnel.The three-year study, "ProtectingAgainst the Spread of Nuclear, Bio-logical, and Chemical Weapons," hasbeen endorsed by a group of 15 re-search organizations in the UnitedStates, Europe, Russia and Japan. Itwas financed by the Carnegie Corpo-ration of New York and the NuclearThreat Initiative, the Washingtonfoundation started by Ted Turnerand SamNunn, a former Democraticsenator from Georgia. ' *.The first volume was written byRobert J. Einhorn and Michele A.Flournoy, former senior Clinton ad-ministration arms control and de-fense specialists now at the Centeffor Strategic and International Stud-ies inWashington.It is to be releasedtoday in London at a conferenceabout efforts to secure and reducestockpiles of weapons of mass de-struction. A copy was provided toThe New YorkTimes in advance.At a summit meeting in Canadalast June, the major industrial pow-ers and Russia the Group of 8 agreed to spend $20 billion over thenext 10 years to help Russia reducethe threat posed by its stockpiles.The report notes that given thedanger that these materials might beacquired by rogue states of terror-ists, these nations should consider

$20 billion a "floor" rattier than aceiling. It also recommends that na-tions "may wish to waive debt pay-ments" in exchange for additionalspending by Russia on such projects.The study highlights progressmade with a $7billion investment inthese efforts by the United States,much of it under Cooperative ThreatReduction programs started bylegislation in the early 1990's spon-sored by Senator Richard G. Lugarof Indiana, now Foreign RelationsCommittee chairman, and Mr. Nunn.In the past decade, the reportnotes, nuclear materials have beenremoved from Ukraine, Kazakhstanand Belarus. The world's largest an-thrax production facility at Stepno-gorsk, Kazakhstan, was dismantled.The first prototype chemicalweapons destruction plant in Russia.is ready to operate, and more than50,000 scientists who once worked innuclear, biological and chemicalweapons facilities have received aid.agh steps, the report as-serts th'afi'fKbf% ambitiousjare needed. The study festance, that.basic security upgradeshad been cornpHitea at "facilitiescontaining only 46 percent of theapproximately 603 metric tons ofRussia's weapons-usable nuclearmaterials" identified by the UnitedStates Department of Energy."Virtually none" of Russia's pluto-nium and "less than one-seventh"ofits highly enriched uraniumhas beenrendered unusable for nuclear weap-ons, the report says. "The same is-true for the United States," it says.The report emphasizes the con-tinuing threat posed by Russia's bio-logical stockpiles, about 20 majorformer Soviet facilities .and at leas*two dozen smaller institutions."Thousands of weapons scientistsand workers are still unemployed orunderemployed," the rejport says,and susceptible to lucrative offers ofwork from countries that could havesecret germ weapons programs.Many Bush administration offi-cials say. Russia should not .Benefitfrom American assistance, given itsreluctance to open facilities suspect-ed of illicit arms research. Officialshave also protested Russian aid toIran's nuclear program. But the re-port concludes that helptog Russiasecure and eliminate unconventional-weapons stockpiles is too importantto be held hostage to such concerns.


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TERROR NETWORKInstruction an d M ethods From Al QaedaTook R o o t in Nor th Iraq With Islamic Fighters

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ByC .J . CHIVERSD A R G A S H A R K H A N , Iraq, April

2 2 T h e two-inch-thick m anual onJailing, discovered in an abandonedbomb laboratory here early thismonth, offers instruction in Al Qa-gda's array of lethal demolitiongkills.With a text in A rabic complement-ed by diagrams taken from Ameri-can military manuals, the documentoffers lessons fo r rigging explosives,setting and concealing booby traps,and wiring an alarm clock to deto-nate a bomb." T he book is a photocopy of onevolume of the Jihad Encyclopedia,th e technical manual that Americanofficials have said is used by A l Qa-eda in its war against th e W est. Oth-er copies were found in terroristtraining camps and guest houses inAfghanistan after th e defeat of theTaliban in 2001.. - This copy, though, was found not inAfghanistan but in this valley in thejCurdish enclave in northern Iraq. It.was recovered by Kurdish securityofficials accompanied by a reporter4 n a training center operated by A n-sar al-Islam, a local armed party. Weeks after Ansar was forced|rom its territory by American Spe-cial Forces soldiers and Kurdishfighters at the end of March, evi-dence gathered from its bases pro-vides a detailed look at the opera-tions of that band of Islamic fighters.

Documents gathered in 2001 by acorrespondent for The New Yorktitties 1,300 miles aw ay in Kabul, th eAfghan capital, suggested that A lQaeda was then h elping to unify th eIslamic groups that became Ansarand was encouraging the m to estab-lish strict Islamic rules in villagesthey controlled.The documents spoke of thefroups in Iraq and said they shouldbe urged to unite. K urdish officialsand Ansar defectors have said lead-ers of the groups that formed Ansarwent to Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001t^rith Qaeda officials.

- i Ut-later transferred tor safekeeping toth e bank's headquarters.But that did not help Abdullah M u-hammad, 49, who went to the banktoday because he was running out ofcash. H e said he had withdrawn twomillion dinars, or about $1,300, bef oreth e war. That is nearly gone. He, too,argued with th e guard." W h a t am I supposed to do?" th eguard asked him. "I don't have an yinstructions to open th e bank andgive people money."M r. MiMmBf^' .wasangry. "Cha-ds fc> eVHPJflWlereT'^fWrtBP'^Rffiireare no jol>s. There is no money.Prices haveincreased. Buses used tocost 25 dinars. N ow they are 100 Theminivans used to cost 100. N ow it is

25 0 . W e don't have work. How are wesupposed to afford those things?"Ibrahim Qreishi, 52, had a differ-ent problem: h e has too much mon-ey, which is oddly common here. H ewas carrying a plastic bag with onemillion dinars in the new red 1 0 J O O Odinar notes, issued right before theend of Mr. H ussein's rule. Fe w shop-keepers will accept the notes, worthabout $6.70 each. Some say they donot have change. Others say the y arecounterfeit.

"People say, 'O.K., they are worthonly .7,000,'" Mr. Qreishi said." Why ? I paid 10,000 for it. W hy is itnow worth only 7,000?" There wereno answers at the bank."W e're not going, to open th e bankuntil there is protection," said th ene w manager, Fayek Hussein al-Obeidi. "W e are waiting fo r instruc-* * . * - ~ * T ^ i t h f i """"*"*


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W E P N E S D A X ; ,' ' f DM VA WORLD NEWSFirst SuspectCharged in Bali BombingsA s s o c i a t e d Press :

t_ "_J__a J.J30ALI, Indonesia, April(Wednesday)Indonesiancutorstoday formallyfirst suspect in last year's terror{bombings on the resort island ofJjali that kilkd 202y|preign tourists. -}f The suspect, Amrozi, who likejpiany Indonesians has only onename, allegedly belongs to JemaahJsjamiah, the al Qaeda-linked re-gional terror group blamed for thejiear-simultaiieous bombing at

two Bali nightclubs.One of 29 peQijtmetained int Oct. 12 attack,Sarges of violatinganti-terrorism laws that couldcanythe death penalty, a spokesman forthe I

the charges wereavailable.Amrozi's arrest onicr details ofimmediately

plosives used in the attack anddrove the van that blew up outsideone of the clubs.The blasts were the bloodiestterror assault since the Sept. 11,2001, attacks in the UnitedStates., Jemaah Islflnnah also is thoughtto fee responsible for a series ofChristmas Eve church bombings hiIndonesia in 2000, as well as afoiled plot to blowup U.S., Austra-British and Israeli diplomatic

charged with treason hi connectionwith the church attacks. Hehasnotbeen charged in theBali bombings.. Dozens of alleged membersofthe group have been arrested hiSingapore and Malaysia. Thegroup's goal, according to regionallaw enforcement officials, is to es-tablish a pan-Islamicstate in South-

ings. bomb-: claim he bought the ex- leader, Abu-bakar Baasyir, is on trialin Jakarta,

Other suspects arrested hi con- .nection with the Bali blasts are ex-pected to go on trial later this year.AH the trials are scheduled to takeplace inBalltia*.

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High Court Upholdsimmigrants5Custodyj tycision Requ iresJail Pending D eportationjty CHARLES L A N EWa&ington P o s t S t a f f W r i te r-fl-\The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a;/wwn-year-oM federal (aw that says im-tfMgrants, including permanent residents,H f l f h o have committed certain crimes must be- ^Btoined while the federal government de-:jddeswhether to deport them.9 f L Reversing a recent trend on the court to--#nniexpanding immigrant rights, theruling'^Confirms Congress's power to limit the-ligkts of even relativelywell-estabHshednon-citizens.tu The decision puts the nation's estimatedA !) million permanent resident immigrants,!Tr"green card" holders, onnotice that if they


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IB Most E - M a i l e d A r t ic l e sBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFiled at 4:04 p.m. ETKARACHI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani police have arrestedsix men linked to al-Qaida, including a Yemeni man wantedin connection with the Sept. 11 attacks and the bombing ofthe USS Cole, an In terior M inistry official said Wednesday.The country's interior minister said the arrests prevented "a major terrorist attack."Waleed Mohammed B in Attash, best kn own as Tawfiq bin Attash or Tawfiq AttashKhallad, was arrested T uesday d uring a pair of raids conducted in southern Karachi byPakistani authorities."This is a big catch. Attash is wanted in the USS Cole bomb ing," said B rig. Javed I qbalCheema, the head of Pakistan's counterterrorism unit. "I think he is very important."U.S. counterterrorism officials in Washington confirmed the capture of the suspect, alsoknown as Khallad, and described him as one of the most-wanted al-Qaida fugitives.Khallad was active in plotting new attacks, the officials said on condition of anonymity.White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President B ush was grateful to Pakistan for a"hopeful and significant capture.""It's been another stron g day of Pak istani cooperation in the war against terror, "he said.A CIA officer once described Khallad as a "major-league killer."U.S. intelligence officials said Khallad is suspected of meeting with two of the Sept. 11hijackers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2000. Those hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdharan d Nawaf al-Hazmi, were on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.Khallad was in Afghanistan for much of the planning of the attacks and was believed tohave moved to Pakistan by late 2002, officials said.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) - SeniorBush administration officialsTuesday said a member of anal Qaeda-affiliated terror groupoperating in Iraq has beencaptured by U.S.forces.Sources said the individual is amember of a group operating inwestern Baghdad under the leadershipo f Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanianbelieved by the United States to havebeen the mastermind behind theassassination o f American diplomatLawrence Foley in Amman lastOctober.Zarqawi was said to have receivedmedical treatment in Baghdad in Mayand June of 2002 after being woundedin Afghanistan during the war.His legwas amputated, U.S.officials say,by asurgeon in Iraq.Before the war, Secretary o f StateColin Powell pointed to Zarqawi's alQaeda-affiliated group that he said wasoperating inside Baghdad, as evidenceof ties between al Qaeda and Iraq.Powell told the U.N.Security Council inearly February that after al Qaeda andthe Taliban were ousted fromAfghanistan, Zarqawi established acamp in northeastern Iraq to trainterrorists in using explosives andpoisons.During Zarqawi's stay in Baghdad,nearly two dozen of his associates setup a base of operations in the capital tomove people, money and suppliesthroughout the country, said Powell.The United States, using another

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CenterTo AssessTerroristThreat

W ew Opera t ion t o B eH o u s e d a t C I A fo r N o wr i .' - B j r D AN E G G E N''W a s h i n g t o n P os t Staff W r i t e r

T he Bush administration is launching a'new counterterrorism center today toremedy intelligence-gathering problems/revealed in thewake of the Sept. 11,2001,* " attacks, but the plan is already coming un-der criticism as a wasteful duplication ofBother agencies' work,' ' The T errorist T hreat Integration Cen-ter (TTIC), first announced by President'Bush earlier this year in his State of the'Union address, will bring together repre-sentatives from across the government toj monitor threat information gathered by: other agencies andprovide analysis to the' "'White House and others.T he ribbon-cutting comes after yester-, day's release of the State Department's an-''liual report on terrorism. T he report saidthgt attacks dropped sharply last year and

several nations w here terroristsare active'increased efforts to combat their activ-ities.' ; Officials said the threat center, whichwill start w ith a skeleton staff of 60 in tem-'ipbrary quarters at CIA headquarters in' Langley, will begin operations today byimmediately taking responsibility for'compiling the top-secret Daily T hreat M a-trix, an analysis tha t forms the backbonefor much of the administration's strategyin assessing terrorist attacks.' '-Director John 6. B rennan, a 23-year'*lA veteran, told reporters ye sterday thatthe center will allow the CIA , FBI, Nation-al Security A gency and other agencies tobetter "connect the dots" in assessing ter-" rbrist threats by improving the flow of in-'formation within the U.S. intelligence'community.; "Just bydefinition, thisis very new and.very different," B rennan said. "W e are notgoing to be doing things in a redundantfashion. W hat we're trying to do is haveTTIC serve as the central hub to provideinformation and receive informationthroughout the government."But many lawmakers and intelligence'"experts are taking a cautious view of the"threat center concept, which critics viewas a wasteful bureaucracy that will only

worsen confusion and communication.problems within the intelligence commu-nity.

BY R A Y USTIG-THEWASHNGTONWSTSen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) says the Terrorist Th reat Integration Center beingdedicated today should be moved to the Department of Homeland Security.

T he center was hurriedly announced toresponse togrowing congressional doubtsabout the ability of the scandal-ridden J?BIto protect the nation from terrorist attack.Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), a Democfaticpresidential hopeful, has proposed creat-ing a new domestic intelligence agencyakin to B ritain's M IS security service.A nother presidential candidate, Sen.Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), wrote Bushthis week calling the threat center "mis-guided and potentially calamitous" andurging him to move the center into thenew Department of H omeland S ecurity.Lieberman said the center "will be re-moved from our government's dajfy ef-forts to improve our domesticSfofenses,constrained by cultural and institutionalrivalries between the CIA and FB I, .isolat-ed from state and local governments andunaccountable to the nation's top-rankinghomeland security official"Rather than increasing the 'effective--ness and clarity of intelligence inte'grationin ou r government... this decision risksincreasing bureaucracy and confusion,"the letter said. ;T he A merican Civil Liberties Unionand other civil liberties groupf;JjiaVe alsosaid the TTIC structure is wortfiome be-cause it could allow the CIA and other for-eign intelligence agencies to have undueinfluence on domestic matters. ' * - 'B rennan and other TTIC officials dis-puted such criticisms during a conferencecall with reporters yesterday. Deputy di-rector J im B ernazzani, an FB I specialagent, said the threat center will not col-lect its own intelligence or run counterter-

rorism cases. Those tasks will remainwith the FB I and Joint Terrorism T askForces arou nd the country, he said.

"There will beno T T IC personnel walk-ing the streets of a city in the UnitedStates collecting information, nor willthere be TTIC personnel making d^ci-sions about investigations," B ernazzaaisaid. '"*T hreat center officials acknowledgedthat many details remain to be workedout, including w hat kinds of reports willbe provided to other agencies and the cen-ter's permanent location. The administra-tion plans to place the center in its ownbuilding that will also house CIA and FB Icounterterrorism operations.T he State Department's 'port said attacksby"internationaliists" drdpped from 355 in 2001 to 18year, R eutersmew s service reported.number of deaths fell to 725from 3,:2001, which included fatalitiesSept. 11 attacks on New \brk and,1ington. . U.S. officials said the decline reflectedthe U.S.-led war oa terrorism.'^!more attacks were likely. Terrorist


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Pakistani Police ArrestSix A l Qaeda SuspectsBy K A M R A N K H A NSpecial to The Washington Post

K A R A C H I , Pakistan, April 30Police have arrested six suspected alQaeda operatives, including a lead-ing suspect in the 2000 bombing ofthe USS Cole, Pakistani officials

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