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• Iran vows to expel any al-Qa'ida fighters.
• Iran denied US claims that it harboured al-Qa'ida members, but vowed yesterday to expel any members of the terror network that it might find. Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, said on Tuesday that there was "no question" that al-Qa'ida members were in Iran. ... Iran had expelled about 500 suspected al-Qa'ida terrorists in the past year, he said. ... "Any Iranian citizen or foreign security organisation which has information about the presence of people suspected of having links to al-Qa'ida in Iran should provide us with that information and we will take action and expel them. " US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said al-Qa'ida figures in Iran include Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian indicted for conspiracy in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa. One official said Saad bin Laden, the son of al-Qa'ida's fugitive leader, Osama bin Laden, may also be in Iran. Iranian officials have strenuously denied US charges of cooperating with al-Qa'ida, saying Iran strongly opposed the network and its former Taliban hosts in Afghanistan long before the 11 September attacks. ... Those attacks are being investigated for suspected links to al-Qa'ida. But diplomats in Tehran say rogue elements in Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards may have offered shelter to fleeing al-Qa'ida members without the knowledge of Iran's reformist government. Mr Ramazanzadeh said several members of Iran's security forces had been killed in fighting with militants in the country, and about 500 people suspected of having ties with al-Qa'ida had been captured and expelled in the past year. "Some elements suspected of having ties with al-Qa'ida have entered Iran through Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq at various times illegally and they have been expelled," he said.

• May 22, 2003 The Middle East Media Research Institute Iranian Source: Seif Al-'Adel and Osama Bin Laden's Son Left Iran Only After Riyadh Bombings In an article in today's Saudi-owned London Arabic daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, correspondent 'Ali Nouri Zadeh quoted an Iranian source who said that contrary to Iran's denials, some Al-Qa'ida officials had been staying in Iran and had left after the Riyadh bombings. The following are excerpts from the article: The Exodus of Al-Qa'ida Leaders from Iran "An Iranian source close to the Revolutionary Guards leadership revealed the collective exodus of some heads of the Al-Qa'ida organization, following last week's bombings in Riyadh. The source clarified that senior Guards officials had been fired from their sensitive posts after it became clear that they had protected Al-Qa'ida members. " "Al-Sharq Al-Awsatwas told that Seif Al-'Adel, who by some reports was military commander of Al-Qa'ida, Sa'ad Osama bin Laden, and a senior Al-Qa'ida official named Abu Khaled left Iran on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, together with their men, and it is expected that more Al-Qa'ida and Ansar Al-Islam members will depart in the coming days for Afghanistan, at the triple convergence of the borders of Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. ...
• However, Iran stressed yesterday May 20, 2003 that it was determined to fight terrorism, particularly Al-Qa'ida. Iranian Foreign Ministry speaker Hamid Reza Asafi told a press conference that there is no harmony between Iran and Al-Qa'ida, and denied the American charges that Al-Qa'ida members were in Iran. ... resolutions in the event that it encountered Al-Qa'ida members. ... '" Iran Expelled Al-Qa'ida Members also in February "In February 2003, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi declared that Iran had expelled from its territory over 500 infiltrators suspected of being linked to Al-Qa'ida. Some sources connected Iran's expulsion of Al-Qa'ida members to unofficial talks at the beginning of the week held in Athens by General Mohsen Rezai, former Revolutionary Guards commander and currently secretary of the Expediency Council, with American figures close to the Bush administration. A source close to Iran's reformist movement said that Iranian President Mohammad Khatami was behind the expulsion of Al-Qa'ida members ; Khatami had, he said, recently received information from an Arab country friendly to Iran and close to the U. ... regarding the presence of Al-Qa'ida's terror network in Tehran, Meshhed, and Zahedan. " "The source added that Khatami was surprised by the information and even more surprised by its details, and appointed Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi and one of the commanders of the military to investigate where the Al-Qa'ida members were located. ... " "Regardless of the results of the meetings in Greece or Khatami's clear-cut instructions to put an end to Al-Qa'ida's presence in Iran, there are signs that Iran's supreme leadership has taken recent American warnings very seriously. According to an MP close to Khatami, the president is proud of his relations with the Saudi leadership and considers them one of the most important achievements of his presidency, and thus will not permit anyone to place these relations at risk by protecting Al-Qa'ida members and supporting them financially and morally ? even if it means public confrontation with the radical group within the Revolutionary Guards and the security apparatuses that are subject to the oversight of Al-Vali Al-Faqih Khamenei . According to the MP, the national security council of the Islamic Shura Council is carefully and thoroughly studying information about the movements of Al-Qa'ida, with the knowledge of some of the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards?"" .

• The Birth of al-Qa'ida With his muhajadeen veterans without an enemy, Osama bin Laden offered his army to the defense of Mecca against Saddam Hussein's onslaught; when the Kingdom of Saud opted for American protection over his, bin Laden was incensed, and became convinced that all the despotic governments of the Middle East, Saddam Hussein and the Kingdom of Saud most of all, needed to be destroyed and replaced with a united Islamic theocracy. al-Qa'ida became "the foundation" for dozens of scattered resistance groups to dozens of various dictators throughout the Islamic world, all united in their common goal of deposing the various dictators in their homelands, and replacing their rule with the Shari'a, and a new caliph. ...
• al-Qa'ida expected Americans to react with anger, striking out against any target that presented itself; they expected neoconservatives to be cunning enough to use this anger to their own ends. In both cases, everything went according to al-Qa'ida's plan. ...
• Iraq With the invasion of Iraq in April 2003, al-Qa'ida's plan came to fruition; Hussein was deposed, the country was opened up to terrorist activity and recruitment, and the United States military was mired into a social and political nightmare which could only end in the spread of the Islamic Revolution to Baghdad. At the current time, one can only conclude that al-Qa'ida's victory has been resounding and absolute. ...
• A New Caliphate? Al-Qa'ida has never been stronger, better organized, or better equipped, but how realistic is its goal of a new caliphate? Who would be this caliph? And what would the emergence of such a powerful theocracy mean to the world? .

• Iraq Conflict May Have Driven Muslims into Arms of al-Qa'ida'.
• The war to topple Saddam Hussein may have damaged the campaign against international terrorism by driving Muslims into the arms of al-Qa'ida, an all-party committee of MPs said yesterday. The Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee said al-Qa'ida remained a "significant threat" to Britain, after hearing that the terrorist network may still have the loyalty of more than 17,000 militants in up to 60 countries. In a report that raises questions about an important part of the justification for war, MPs said the campaign in Iraq might have "enhanced the appeal of al-Qa'ida to Muslims living in the Gulf region and elsewhere". ... They said: "We cannot conclude that these threats have diminished significantly, in spite of regime change in Iraq and progress in capturing some of the leaders of al-Qa'ida. ... Al-Qa'ida has dangerously large numbers of foot soldiers and has demonstrated an alarming capacity to regenerate itself. "In spite of some notable progress, al-Qa'ida continues to pose a substantial threat to British citizens in the United Kingdom and abroad. ... The committee heard evidence from Paul Wilkinson, professor of International Relations at St Andrews University, who said conservative estimates suggested that al-Qa'ida had at least 17,000 trained terrorists. ... " The former Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke told the BBC: "I think it is likely that the American and British invasion of Iraq and the occupation of the country will boost al-Qa'ida. ... " THE MAIN POINTS * The war in Iraq may have "impeded the campaign against al-Qa'ida" and "enhanced the appeal" of the terror network to Muslims in the Gulf. * Al-Qa'ida may command 17,000 trained terrorists in 60 countries. ...

• How al-Qa'ida has split into dozens of autonomous, hard-to-find 'franchises'.
• The Afghan war was meant to deprive al-Qa'ida of the protection of its Taliban allies and destroy it as a fighting force. ... The recent attacks in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and, possibly, Iraq show that smaller organisations, often with fighters trained in al-Qa'ida camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, are able to carry out operations without overt help from Bin Laden. According to Western and Arab intelligence sources, the pattern emerging is of the remnants of the al-Qa'ida leadership, in their bases in the Afghan-Pakistan frontier, requesting missions to be carried out, at suggested times and regions, and leaving the details of the attacks to local bodies.

• Saudi Ambassador to Britain Denies Connection Between Al-Qa'ida Attacks & Israeli-Palestinian Conflict .
• The Arabic-language London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi recently reported on a symposium regarding "Al-Qa'ida, Saudi Arabia, and International Security" which was held at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. During the meeting, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, Prince Turki Al-Faysal, formerly responsible for the Saudi security services, denied there was any connection between Al-Qa'ida's terror operations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...
• "In a symposium on 'Al-Qa'ida, Saudi Arabia, and International Security' at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, Saudi Ambassador to Britain Prince Turki Al-Faysal rejected all connections between the spread of violence in the region i. ...
• "In his response to the raising of the issue of the link between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the influence of developments in this conflict on Al-Qa'ida operations, Turki Al-Faisalsaid: 'A solution to the Palestinian-Israeli problem will not affect Al-Qa'ida operations. ...
• Maha 'Azzam claimed that there was no doubt that the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli problem was intensifying the mass Arab and Islamic support for organizations such as Al-Qa'ida. ...
• "Prince Turki said that the war of the Al-Qa'ida organization is not directed only against the U. ...
• 'Azzam agreed that the Al-Qa'ida organization had other enemies besides the U. ... Thus, for example, Al-Qa'ida draws the leadership of the Jihad organization in Egypt, such as Ayman Al-Zawahiri and those like him, as this organization has focused the struggle against the U. ... Azzam referred also to regions on the margins politically and economically that constitute fertile ground for the manufactur ing of supporters of the Al-Qa'ida organization " .

• 'Distraction' that takes the heat off al-Qa'ida.
• Whether or not the mysterious "Hindu" holy men who turned into mass murderers in the slums of Jammu on Saturday night were Islamist gunmen, a suspicion is growing in Pakistan that supporters of Osama bin Laden would be happy to provoke another crisis with India if it relieved the pressure on al-Qa'ida along the Pakistan-Afghan frontier.
• In the past two weeks, two major gun battles have been fought in the tribal territories along the Afghan border between Pakistani troops and al-Qa'ida men, in the last of which four Islamists, all apparently from Chechnya, were shot dead near the Jarma Bridge in Kohat.
• But al-Qa'ida knows that these battles are being encouraged by the FBI, whose officers are urging the Pakistanis to move ever deeper into the hitherto untouchable Pashtun tribal zones whose rule has always been entrusted to local village chieftains.
• Little wonder, therefore, that al-Qa'ida might want to hit back. ...
• It was surely not by coincidence that the attack came at the moment when US and Indian intelligence officers were concluding two days of talks on "counter-terrorism" in Washington, a conference – the fifth of its kind – which ended with a joint statement that "the two sides agreed to further intensify intelligence sharing and co-ordinate action in pursuit of the remains sic of al-Qa'ida members and associated terrorist groups".
• In reality, any militant Islamic group can regard itself as part of al-Qa'ida if it wishes – bin Laden's "foundation" is not a formal institution with card-carrying members – although this is still not apparent to the US.
• India and Pakistan will have to pretend to be more interested in crushing "terrorism" far from Afghanistan than ending the Kashmir dispute, while the Americans – anxious to encourage the continued assistance of both sides against al-Qa'ida – will have to pretend to be more interested in Kashmir than in their "war on terror". ...

• Two-Year Hunt Tracked Al-Qa'ida 'Branch Manager' To Thailand.
• Two-year hunt tracked al-Qa'ida 'branch manager' to Thailand.
• A two-year manhunt across South-east Asia ended in the back streets of the ancient Thai city of Ayutthaya, where Riduan Isamuddin, one of the linchpins of al-Qa'ida's terrorist network, was arrested at a block of flats with a cache of weapons and explosives. ...
• On the run since late 2001, Hambali, 37, was the most senior al-Qa'ida figure in South-east Asia and a former operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah, the regional extremist group. ...
• While his arrest represents a psychological blow to al-Qa'ida, terrorism experts are divided over how easily he can be replaced. ... " Other experts compared al-Qa'ida to a hydra that grew new heads whenever one was chopped off. ...
• Described by Mr Bush as "one of the world's most lethal terrorists", Hambali - the only non-Arab in Bin Laden's inner circle - returned to Indonesia after the fall of the dictator, Suharto, and became the link man between al-Qa'ida and Jemaah Islamiyah. His group, which was sometimes referred to as a "branch office" of the parent group al-Qa'ida, is believed to have regularly received funds, training and weapons from al-Qa'ida. ...
• Another al-Qa'ida detainee reportedly said Hambali had tried to recruit pilots for more terrorist hijackings in the future. He is suspected of organising a strategic meeting in Malaysia in January 2000 where al-Qa'ida operatives planned the suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen. ...

• April 03, 2004 Al-Qa'ida: Islamic state will control the world .
• Lewis 'Atiyyatullah vs Reuven Paz, Round One:The key ideologist of Al-Qa'ida, Lewis 'Atiyyatullah (a pseudonym), has published an article in the Global Islamic Media Internet forum, in which he reveals Al-Qa'ida's perception of the international balance of power at present and in the future. ...
• The article is called, "So Said Al-Qa'ida: A Letter to Reuven Paz. ... and Europe interested in Al-Qa'ida must read the article seriously. ...
• According to 'Atiyyatullah, there were two kinds of responses to Al-Qa'ida's writings in the past. The first, from Westerners who completely ignored the writings of Al-Qa'ida's great thinkers and strategists. They branded those writings as naïve attempts to present Al-Qa'ida in an unrealistic manner. They referred to Al-Qa'ida's activities as mindless terror. ...
• '" 'Atiyyatullah responds to this saying, "Al-Qa'ida does not wage wars similar to other wars. ... Al-Qa'ida is completely willing to sustain the war for many years. ...
• Al-Qa'ida – one beast, many heads .
• 'Atiyyatullah, the ideologist, sees great importance in Al-Qa'ida's modus operandus, which does not rely on one leader. ... "Each activist in Al-Qa'ida is trained in a manner that will allow him to become a leader once another leader falls. " 'Atiyyatullah warns that the day will come when analysts will talk of the rise of the third generation of Al-Qa'ida. ...
• "Al-Qa'ida won its greatest victory after 9/11, when it succeeded in isolating the U. ...
• And as for President Bush, Al-Qa'ida turns out to be his biggest fan. ...

• The Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002.
• This news release is issued in respect of the financial measures taken against Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban. ...
• The individual therefore falls within the UK financial sanctions regime under the Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 (S. ...
• The Bank's Notices dated 24 January 2003, 19 April 2002 and 11 March 2002 - each entitled NOTICE CONTAINING A DIRECTION UNDER ARTICLE 8 OF THE AL-QA'IDA AND TALIBAN (UNITED NATIONS MEASURES) ORDER 2002 (S. ...
• The individuals whose identifying information has been corrected continue, along with all other individuals and entities appearing on the UN Consolidated list, to fall within the UK financial sanctions regime under the Al-Qa'ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 (S. ...
• Previous Notices and news releases concerning Terrorism, Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban are available from the Financial Sanctions pages.

• Afghanistan staat onder het bewind van de Taliban (1996-2001) bekend als een schurkenstaat omdat het regime onderdak biedt aan Osama bin Laden en andere leden van het terroristennetwerk al-Qa'ida (= de Basis). Ook helpt Afghanistan al-Qa'ida bij zijn acties. ...
• De regering van de VS meent dat al-Qa'ida achter deze aanslagen zit en verklaart de oorlog aan alle terroristen waar ook ter wereld en aan landen die steun geven aan al-Qa'ida en andere groepen terroristen. Deze oorlog tegen het terrorisme wordt eerst in Afghanistan uitgevochten, omdat het Talibanregime al-Qa'ida steunt en omdat de leider van de groep, Osama bin Laden, zich daar schuilhoudt. ...
• Op 7 oktober 2001 nemen Amerikaanse troepen met Afghaanse oppositiegroepen de wapens op tegen het leger van het Talibanbewind en strijdgroepen van al-Qa'ida. ... Ook doden ze leden van al-Qa'ida of nemen die gevangen. ...
• Sindsdien menen de VS en Engeland steeds meer aanwijzingen of zelfs bewijzen te vinden dat Irak steun geeft aan al-Qa'ida. ...
• Volgens de Franse geheime dienst zijn er géén aanwijzing dat Irak steun geeft aan al-Qa'ida. Wel zijn er voor en na de aanslagen van 11 september 2001 leden van al-Qa'ida in Irak geweest. ...

• Al-Qa'ida Warns of Attack December 5-6.
• A communiqué in which the Al-Qa'ida organization took responsibility for the Mombasa, Kenya terror attacks was first posted on the "News about the Jihad and the Mujahideen" forum of the Islamist website www. ...
• Al-Qa'ida Takes Responsibility for Kenya Attack .
• The following comment was added by the site's administrators to another communiqué posted on the Web site; in this communiqué, Al-Qa'ida took responsibility for the Mombasa attacks: "Here ends the communiqué posted by the Al-Qa'ida political bureau. ...
• The Establishment of the Palestinian Branch of Al-Qa'ida Vowing Allegiance to bin Laden .
• In the same forum, a reader, Abu Banan, posted an announcement of the establishment of "the Islamic Al-Qa'ida Organization in Palestine. ...
• Brothers in Islam: From the land of the Night Journey and the Ascension to Heaven, we announce to the Islamic nation the establishment of the Islamic Al-Qa'ida Organization in Palestine, which will serve as a powerful basis for restoring the rights of our Arab and Islamic people in Palestine, and will defeat the Zionist Jewish invaders and return them to the place from whence they came. ...
• "Islamic Al-Qa'ida in Palestine joins its voice with the voices of the mujahideen in Palestine in its resistance to the partial and submissive solutions, and will accept nothing but the full liberation of the Palestinian land. ...
• "The Islamic Al-Qa'ida Organization.
• Al-Qa'ida-Affiliated Web Site Warns of Attack During Id Al-Fitr, December 5-6, and Announces Palestinian Branch of Al-Qa'ida .

• US stops al-Qa'ida 'dirty bomb' attack on Washington.
• The FBI disrupted an al-Qa'ida plot led by an American citizen to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in Washington as Moroccan authorities announced they had arrested terrorist suspects, accused of planning suicide attacks on British and US warships.
• Mr Muhajir ­ who changed his name from Jose Padilla after converting from Catholicism to Islam while in prison ­ had apparently been taking his orders directly from Abu Zubeida, the senior al-Qa'ida lieutenant being groomed to take over the leadership from Osama bin Laden. ...
• "We know from multiple independent and corroborating sources that Abdullah al-Muhajir was closely associated with al-Qa'ida and. ...
• In Morocco, police said they had broken up a terrorist cell with links to al-Qa'ida with the detention of three Saudi Arabian nationals. ...
• News of Mr Muhajir's arrest on 8 May comes against a backdrop of continuing tension in the US in the wake of reports that al-Qa'ida is planning further attacks. ...
• There has also been a wave of criticism that the Bush administration failed to detect clues that al-Qa'ida was planning the attacks of 11 September. ...
• He also met Mr Zubeida, formerly al-Qa'ida's director of operations, who is in US custody. ...

• For by bringing Israel into the loop - by allowing Israel to become a partner in President Bush's asinine "war on terror" - al-Qa'ida has ensured that the Arab Muslim world will henceforth give its real if quiescent sympathy to Osama bin Laden. ... If al-Qa'ida is now against Israel, Arabs will give their support.
• With utter predictability, Ariel Sharon walked into the al-Qa'ida trap. ... Thus any strike against the al-Qa'ida - by America, by Britain, by Australia - will be seen as an Israeli attack. ... At last, Israel's war on Palestinian "terror" can be placed on the same footing as its new war against al-Qa'ida. ...
• By responding to al-Qa'ida's wicked assault on its civilians, it is taking on a mighty big opponent. ... Al-Qa'ida is a quite different opponent. ... Better by far to let the Americans tackle al-Qa'ida - and even they don't seem to be all that successful - than bring Israel into the battle.
• Has anyone spotted something amiss about the latest episode in the "war on terror"? Has it dawned on any of the chickenhawks in the US administration or in Downing Street that they are losing the initiative? Has anyone noticed that Mr bin Laden is writing the script? Al-Qa'ida attacks New York so we attack Afghanistan. Al-Qa'ida attacks in Bali and the Australian government re-pledges its support for America. Al-Qa'ida threatens America and so we murder four of its members in Yemen. ... Under attack by al-Qa'ida? Let's tap into the telephones and emails of our innocent citizens. ...
• Why must we let al-Qa'ida write the script? Why don't we set up the machinery of real international law? Why don't we talk about "justice" rather than revenge? Why don't we have international tribunals so that those who wish to kill us can have their time in court? I don't want al-Qa'ida's members blown to pieces in Yemen by Mr Bush's hit squads. ...
• No, I'm not equating al-Qa'ida and Mr Sharon, nor am I associating the innocent with the guilty. ...

• US Wary of Pakistan Intelligence Services' Links to al-Qa'ida.
• There are rumours, for example, that intelligence officers helped to hide three al-Qa'ida members after a gun battle in a village in Waziristan, in the border tribal territories on 25 June in which 10 soldiers were killed. US agents in Pakistan suspect that several of their raids on remote villages in Waziristan were betrayed to al-Qa'ida operatives in advance. ...
• Because of the past co-operation between the Taliban – and by extension al-Qa'ida and Pakistan's intelligence services – many Pakistan Special Branch and Field Security Wing officers are working blind, forced to build up entirely new files on militants who remain well known to elements of the ISI. ...

• Taleb has repeatedly denied that the Laskar Jihad has any connections with Osama bin Laden and his organization Al-Qa'ida. Taleb says in the interview that Al-Qa'ida has accused Muslim rulers and clerics of heresy simply because not all Muslim leaders agree with all of Al-Qa'ida's interpretations of the Koran.
• " When asked, despite his disagreements with Al-Qa'ida, whether he would support Al-Qa'ida members in their fight against America, Taleb replied, "Of course, as they are Muslims and it is our duty to support Muslims and to wash our hands of the infidels. ...
• ICC reported that the Laskar Jihad not only posed a serious threat against the Christian population, but also expressed concern about the group's likely connections to Osama bin-Laden and his Al-Qa'ida network. ... Indonesia's intelligence agency reported having found an abandoned Al-Qa'ida training camp in Central Sulawesi. ... Subsequent reports and the Al-Hayat interview have raised further concerns about the dangerous activities of the Laskar Jihad and how the far-reaching tentacles of Al-Qa'ida can recruit militant groups like the Laskar Jihad to spew their venom of violence and terrorism against Christians and American interests worldwide.

•  Text: CIA's Tenet Says al-Qa'ida Still a Serious Threat.
• Al-Qa'ida and other terrorist groups will continue to plan to attack the United States and its interests abroad, says George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• "Their modus operandi is to have multiple attack plans in the works simultaneously, and to have al-Qa'ida cells in place to conduct them," Tenet said February 6 in testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Tenet said current intelligence indicates that al-Qa'ida also has plans to strike against U. ...
• Al-Qa'ida may also exploit its presence or connections to other groups in countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia and the Philippines, Tenet said.
• Moreover, the terrorist threat goes well beyond al-Qa'ida, he said.
• Tehran has also failed to move decisively against al-Qa'ida members who have relocated to Iran from Afghanistan," he said. ...
• -- In places like Somalia, where the absence of a national government has created an environment in which groups sympathetic to al-Qa'ida have offered terrorists an operational base and potential haven.
• Last year I told you that Usama Bin Ladin and the al-Qa'ida network were the most immediate and serious threat this country faced. ... We assess that Al-Qa'ida and other terrorist groups will continue to plan to attack this country and its interests abroad. Their modus operandi is to have multiple attack plans in the works simultaneously, and to have al-Qa'ida cells in place to conduct them.
• -- Al-Qa'ida also has plans to strike against U. ...
• targets could be launched by al-Qa'ida cells already in place in major cities in Europe and the Middle East. Al-Qa'ida can also exploit its presence or connections to other groups in such countries as Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
• Although the September 11 attacks suggest that al-Qa'ida and other terrorists will continue to use conventional weapons, one of our highest concerns is their stated readiness to attempt unconventional attacks against us. ...
• -- Terrorist groups worldwide have ready access to information on chemical, biological, and even nuclear weapons via the Internet, and we know that al-Qa'ida was working to acquire some of the most dangerous chemical agents and toxins. Documents recovered from al-Qa'ida facilities in Afghanistan show that Bin Ladin was pursuing a sophisticated biological weapons research program.

• The following are excerpts from the article: The Exodus of Al-Qa'ida Leaders from Iran .
• "An Iranian source close to the Revolutionary Guards leadership revealed the collective exodus of some heads of the Al-Qa'ida organization, following last week's bombings in Riyadh. The source clarified that senior Guards officials had been fired from their sensitive posts after it became clear that they had protected Al-Qa'ida members. ...
• "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat was told that Seif Al-Adel, who by some reports was military commander of Al-Qa'ida, Saad bin Laden, and a senior Al-Qa'ida official named Abu Khaled left Iran on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, together with their men, and it is expected that more Al-Qa'ida and Ansar Al-Islam members will depart in the coming days for Afghanistan, at the triple convergence of the borders of Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. ...
• However, Iran stressed yesterday May 20, 2003 that it was determined to fight terrorism, particularly Al-Qa'ida. Iranian Foreign Ministry speaker Hamid Reza Asefi told a press conference that there is no harmony between Iran and Al-Qa'ida, and denied the American charges that Al-Qa'ida members were in Iran. ... resolutions in the event that it encountered Al-Qa'ida members. ...

• CIA Chief Says Al-Qa'ida Poses Serious Threat to the United States, October 17, 2002.
• CIA Director George Tenet says the grave threat currently posed by the international terrorist network al-Qa'ida against the United States and other nations is very real and very similar to the period just before September 11, 2001.
• Tenet said al-Qa'ida plans its operations in multiple theaters and they are planning to strike in the United States again. He also warned the lawmakers that the United States had "better get about the business of getting the right structure in place as fast as we can" to combat another attack al-Qa'ida might launch.
• "When you see the multiple attacks that you've seen occur around the world -- Bali, Kuwait, the number of failed attacks that have been attempted, the various messages that have been issued by senior al-Qa'ida leaders," Tenet said, "you must make the assumption that al-Qa'ida is in an execution phase, and attempts to strike us here and overseas. ...
• Tenet, in his prepared remarks, outlined in detail the history of the intelligence community's pursuit of Usama Bin Ladin and his transnational al-Qa'ida network. ...
• -- al-Qa'ida in May 1993 financed the travel of more than 300 Afghan war veterans to Sudan after the Pakistani government cracked down on foreign Islamic extremists based in Pakistan.
• -- by January 1994, al-Qa'ida began financing at least three terrorist training camps in northern Sudan.
• -- Bin Ladin sent al-Qa'ida network members to Somalia in 1993 to work as advisors with Somali warlord Aideed in opposing U. ...
• -- al-Qa'ida issued a "fatwa" in February 1998 stating that all Muslims had a religious duty "to kill Americans and their allies, both civilian and military" worldwide.
• -- al-Qa'ida launched bombings at two U. ...
• It is important for the American people to understand what CIA and the Intelligence Community were doing to try to prevent the attack that occurred -- and to stop attacks, which al-Qa'ida has certainly planned and remains determined to attempt.
• What I want to do this morning, as explicitly as I can, is to describe the war we have waged for years against al-Qa'ida -- the level of effort, the planning, the focus, and the enormous courage and discipline shown by our officers throughout the world. ...
• It is important for the American people to know that, despite the enormous successes we have had in the past year -- indeed over many years -- al-Qa'ida continues to plan and will attempt more deadly strikes against us. ...
• CIA reported that during Bin Ladin's five-year residence in Sudan he combined business with jihad under the umbrella of al-Qa'ida.
• -- In May 1993, for example, al-Qa'ida financed the travel of more than 300 Afghan war veterans to Sudan after the Pakistani government launched a crackdown against foreign Islamic extremists based in Pakistan.

• CIA Chief Says Al-Qa'ida Poses Serious .
• CIA Director George Tenet says the grave threat currently posed by the international terrorist network al-Qa'ida against the United States and other nations is very real and very similar to the period just before September 11, 2001.
• Tenet said al-Qa'ida plans its operations in multiple theaters and they are planning to strike in the United States again. He also warned the lawmakers that the United States had "better get about the business of getting the right structure in place as fast as we can" to combat another attack al-Qa'ida might launch.
• "When you see the multiple attacks that you've seen occur around the world -- Bali, Kuwait, the number of failed attacks that have been attempted, the various messages that have been issued by senior al-Qa'ida leaders," Tenet said, "you must make the assumption that al-Qa'ida is in an execution phase, and attempts to strike us here and overseas. ...
• Tenet, in his prepared remarks, outlined in detail the history of the intelligence community's pursuit of Usama Bin Ladin and his transnational al-Qa'ida network. ...
• -- al-Qa'ida in May 1993 financed the travel of more than 300 Afghan war veterans to Sudan after the Pakistani government cracked down on foreign Islamic extremists based in Pakistan.
• -- by January 1994, al-Qa'ida began financing at least three terrorist training camps in northern Sudan.
• -- Bin Ladin sent al-Qa'ida network members to Somalia in 1993 to work as advisors with Somali warlord Aideed in opposing U. ...
• -- al-Qa'ida issued a "fatwa" in February 1998 stating that all Muslims had a religious duty "to kill Americans and their allies, both civilian and military" worldwide.
• -- al-Qa'ida launched bombings at two U. ...
• It is important for the American people to understand what CIA and the Intelligence Community were doing to try to prevent the attack that occurred -- and to stop attacks, which al-Qa'ida has certainly planned and remains determined to attempt.
• What I want to do this morning, as explicitly as I can, is to describe the war we have waged for years against al-Qa'ida -- the level of effort, the planning, the focus, and the enormous courage and discipline shown by our officers throughout the world. ...
• It is important for the American people to know that, despite the enormous successes we have had in the past year -- indeed over many years -- al-Qa'ida continues to plan and will attempt more deadly strikes against us. ...
• CIA reported that during Bin Ladin's five-year residence in Sudan he combined business with jihad under the umbrella of al-Qa'ida.
• -- In May 1993, for example, al-Qa'ida financed the travel of more than 300 Afghan war veterans to Sudan after the Pakistani government launched a crackdown against foreign Islamic extremists based in Pakistan.

• L_act AL-QA'IDA OUTFOXES US FORCES .
• But United States forces have not only failed to hunt down Osama bin Laden while they are preparing for war in Iraq: they are finding it almost impossible to crack the al-Qa'ida network because Bin Laden's men have resorted to primitive methods of communication that cut individual members of al-Qa'ida off from all information. ... Even in Pakistan, he says, middle-ranking Pakistani army officers are tipping off members of al-Qa'ida to avoid American-organised raids. ... Al-Qa'ida are very smart. ... But the al-Qa'ida cells didn't know what other members were doing. ... We caught a couple of really high-profile, serious al-Qa'ida leaders but they couldn't tell us what specific operations were going to take place. ...

• Date Index Subject Index Al-Qa'ida Statement (fwd).
• Subject: Al-Qa'ida Statement (fwd) .
• Subject: Al-Qa'ida Statement.
• Al-Qa'ida Urges Muslims in US, UK Not To Travel by Plane, Live in High-Rise Buildings.
• as heard The Al-Qa'ida Organization declares that Bush Sr, Bush.
• Al-Qa'ida stresses that the blood of those killed.
• Al-Qa'ida organization orders the Americans and the infidels in the.
• if Al-Qa'ida organization promises or threatens it fulfills its promise or.
• Al-Qa'ida spokesman is shown making a statement .

• Currently US intelligence forces and political officers are putting pressure on the governments of the world to crack down on al-Qa'ida cells, but also to crush, in the process, any anti-US dissent that comes with a Muslim face. ...
• Early in the Camp X-Ray discussions, the US Department of Defense noted that these prisoners would be interrogated for information about both the Taliban-al-Qa'ida links, but also about al-Qa'ida networks around the world. Former US ambassador to Indonesia and now wolfish Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz warned, "Going after al-Qa'ida in Indonesia is not something that should wait until after al-Qa'ida has been uprooted from Afghanistan," and indeed by late January 2002, 650 US "advisors" made their way to the Basilan Islands of the Philippines to take on the Abu Sayyaf group so that, in the words of US Pacific forces commander Admiral Dennis C. Blair, "Asia is not the last bastion of al-Qa'ida" and to "make it inhospitable for terrorists to come here. " The forward strategy of the US requires intelligence from those human beings who had been part of the al-Qa'ida network and can perhaps provide names and networks to the CIA. ...
• But how do you break these people whose ideological armor is stronger than the inducements of consumerism, or even of liberty? What tangible rewards can the military intelligence offer them but immunity from prosecution or else less jail time? Would these provide the sort of currency that makes a hardened Talibanist or al-Qa'ida convert speak out against the Jihad? Probably not. ...
• The interrogations in Afghanistan proved difficult, and the most hardened and senior people in the Taliban and al-Qa'ida are now in Cuba where they will be asked to "cooperate" with US intelligence. ... Short of the Shin Bet-Muhabarat techniques, the brutal conditions at Camp X-Ray may assist the US intelligence officers to extract information on al-Qa'ida networks in Indonesia, the Philippines and the rest of the oil lands, this to assist ongoing US operations in the area. ...

• For by bringing Israel into the loop--by allowing Israel to become a partner in President Bush's asinine "war on terror"--al-Qa'ida has ensured that the Arab Muslim world will henceforth give its real if quiescent sympathy to Osama bin Laden. ... If al-Qa'ida is now against Israel, Arabs will give their support.
• With utter predictability, Ariel Sharon walked into the al-Qa'ida trap. ... Thus any strike against the al-Qa'ida--by America, by Britain, by Australia--will be seen as an Israeli attack. ... At last, Israel's war on Palestinian "terror" can be placed on the same footing as its new war against al-Qa'ida. ...
• By responding to al-Qa'ida's wicked assault on its civilians, it is taking on a mighty big opponent. ... Al-Qa'ida is a quite different opponent. ... Better by far to let the Americans tackle al-Qa'ida--and even they don't seem to be all that successful--than bring Israel into the battle.
• Has anyone spotted something amiss about the latest episode in the "war on terror"? Has it dawned on any of the chickenhawks in the US administration or in Downing Street that they are losing the initiative? Has anyone noticed that Mr bin Laden is writing the script? Al-Qa'ida attacks New York so we attack Afghanistan. Al-Qa'ida attacks in Bali and the Australian government re-pledges its support for America. Al-Qa'ida threatens America and so we murder four of its members in Yemen. ... Under attack by al-Qa'ida? Let's tap into the telephones and emails of our innocent citizens. ...
• Why must we let al-Qa'ida write the script? Why don't we set up the machinery of real international law? Why don't we talk about "justice" rather than revenge? Why don't we have international tribunals so that those who wish to kill us can have their time in court? I don't want al-Qa'ida's members blown to pieces in Yemen by Mr Bush's hit squads. ...
• No, I'm not equating al-Qa'ida and Mr Sharon, nor am I associating the innocent with the guilty. ...

• Al-Qa'ida cells in the island state are a warning for us, too, warns Clive Williams .
• THE main concern raised by the Singapore government's disclosure of al-Qa'ida terrorist plans for the US and other nations' facilities in Singapore, including possibly the Australian high commission, is not so much whether the Australian Government should have made the public disclosure. ...
• They had links to extremist groups in Malaysia, Indonesia and The Philippines, as well as to al-Qa'ida.
• Worse still for the ISD, eight members of the group had been to al-Qa'ida training camps in Afghanistan since 1993, disappearing for periods from three to six months without coming to notice. ...
• Cell members helped ``Sammy'' (an Arab al-Qa'ida operative) and ``Mike'' video potential US targets in October 2001, again without being detected. ... After all, that video, obtained from the rubble of an al-Qa'ida house in Afghanistan, alerted US authorities to the danger, and they, in turn, in early December 2001, alerted the initially sceptical Singapore authorities.
• THE flip side to the ISD's failure to detect the activities of Jemaah Islamiah is the excellent security taught and practised by al-Qa'ida cells. ... It was always believed that Australia, like Singapore, would be a difficult and less attractive working environment for al-Qa'ida. ...

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