Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2557-1001943038-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 01 Oct 2001 06:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32537 invoked by uid 510); 1 Oct 2001 13:30:47 -0000 Received: from n22.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.72) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2001 13:30:47 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2557-1001943038-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.54] by cj.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Oct 2001 13:30:38 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 1 Oct 2001 13:30:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 6606 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2001 13:30:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Oct 2001 13:30:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2001 13:30:37 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id GAA23806 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 06:30:37 -0700 Message-Id: <200110011330.GAA23806@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 06:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Revealed:.the.London.sleeper.at.heart.of.terror.conspiracy] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit London Times September 30 2001 [8fb223.jpg] Suspect plotted attacks for years posing as student MI5 gets an extra £16m to catch terrorists Revealed: the London sleeper at heart of terror conspiracy Nicholas Rufford and Nicholas Hellen A STUDENT based in south London spent up to five years helping to prepare attacks on targets in mainland Europe and the United States. Investigators probing Osama Bin Laden's international network are focusing on a British terrorist cell linked to a London mosque, which helped to plan the suicide hijackings in America and provided support for attacks on military and civilian targets in Europe. Zacarias Moussaoui, a 33- year-old French-Moroccan who was studying international trade, is being questioned by the FBI as the 20th hijacker in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11. At first it was thought that Moussaoui was a minor figure. However, security sources now say that as a "sleeper" in Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network he had a pivotal role in linking up to 50 members of European cells. While claiming welfare benefits and studying at public libraries in London, he was training to join the 19 hijackers who seized control of the aircraft. They claim that at the same time he linked up with two brothers suspected of plotting assaults on the American embassy in Paris and Nato's headquarters in Brussels later this year. Police in Britain and France are still searching for his companion, a north African woman in her thirties, who is said to have been an organiser and recruiter for the planned attacks. She left the flat she shared with Moussaoui in south London several months ago and has not been seen since. Members of their terrorist cell boasted that by creating panic in America and Europe they could bring the "infidel" - the non-Muslim world - to its knees. German investigators said that a telephone call was intercepted between Moussaoui and another terrorist suspect who shared an apartment with Mohammed Atta, the leader of the hijackers. The call was made by Moussaoui while he was at a flight school in Oklahoma earlier this year and is the first substantial evidence linking him to the group that carried out the September 11 attacks. The revelation will increase fears that Britain is being used as a haven by terrorists. Western intelligence agencies are examining more than 40 British banks, companies and other organisations suspected of being used to launder cash for Bin Laden's campaign. Last week Tony Blair, the prime minister, authorised a £16m "emergency" payment to Britain's intelligence services - MI5 and MI6 - to cover the extra cost of hunting for the terrorists behind the attacks. Most is being ploughed into MI5 anti-terrorist specialists. Linguists specialising in the Afghan language of Pashto are being recruited as officers pursue hundreds of leads. Yesterday Kamel Daoudi, another terrorist suspect, was returned to France after being arrested in Leicester on Tuesday. He is suspected of being a bomb expert behind plans to kill hundreds of military and civilian personnel in aircraft and lorry bomb attacks in Paris and Brussels. Police confirmed last night that a 36-year-old man was detained at Gatwick while en route to America on Friday and was being questioned by Sussex police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Of the hijackers who took part in the New York attack, 10 are now known to have passed through Heathrow and Gatwick on their way to the United States. Their flights originated in Dubai, a staging post for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Amerian authorities have applied for the extradition of a British-based flying instructor who allegedly taught four of the hijackers and made certain they were "capable and trained" to carry out the atrocities. Lotfi Raissi, who was arrested at his home at Colnbrook in Berkshire, is contesting the extradition, which could take three years and cost £1m of public money. The government is considering a new extradition bill to speed up procedures. The bill is likely to curtail the right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. More than 30 suspects have been rounded up in raids across Europe since September 11. The groups plotted attacks in Strasbourg and Marseilles as well as in Paris and Brussels. Jerome and David Courtellier, brothers being held in France for suspected terrorist offences, had stayed with Moussaoui and his companion in south London, but had travelled freely between Britain and France. Michel Courtellier, their father, blamed "Muslim fanatics" in Britain for recruiting his sons. Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota for immigration violations on August 17. He had settled in Britain in 1992 and enrolled on a college course in overseas trade, endorsed by the Institute of Export. He lived on the top floor of a housing association block in Streatham, south London. One neighbour said she saw him enter and leave the building until last summer: "He spoke very good English, was well-dressed and seemed intelligent. He kept himself to himself." He had travelled to London from southern France with a plan to work in the City. Relatives said he had undergone a personality change after his best friend was killed by Russian soldiers in Chechnya. He told his family about trips to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. "He started to say things that I found very shocking," said one relative. "He defended mass murders in Algeria and said it was legitimate to murder civilians and to excommunicate an entire people if they were not following the pure form of Islam." There is concern that Moussaoui lived undisturbed in Britain, even though he was being sought in France by the DST, the French equivalent of MI5. his mother, said that she was visited by officers of the French security service more than 18 months ago. They asked her to contact them if she heard from her son or learnt where he was living. She said that she last saw him in 1997 when he visited her flat in Narbonne, in the south of France. "He said he was working in various temporary jobs during the day and studying at night. "He also said he was learning Arabic and thinking about going into business selling halal meat. "He didn't speak very much and when I questioned him it was hard to get details. Most answers were very vague. Eventually he went back to England." By the late 1990s Moussaoui had become deeply immersed in what he saw as a holy war against the West. He was also helping to indoctrinate others. He left Britain in February and enrolled to train as a private pilot at a flight school in Oklahoma. He was arrested by US authorities after tutors at a second school in Minnesota became suspicious of his interest in flying Boeing passenger jets. Additional reporting: Wayne Bodkin, Montpellier ------------------------ Yahoo! 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