Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3711-1004534938-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27091 invoked by uid 510); 31 Oct 2001 13:28:14 -0000 Received: from n7.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.57) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 13:28:14 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3711-1004534938-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by n7.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 31 Oct 2001 13:28:58 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 31 Oct 2001 13:28:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 73551 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2001 13:28:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 Oct 2001 13:28:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2001 13:28:57 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9VDT6q11982 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:29:06 -0800 Message-Id: <200110311329.f9VDT6q11982@red.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 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet 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: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:29:06 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Britain.Charges.Man.In.Death.Of.The.Afghan.Rebel.Leader] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit New York Times October 31, 2001 The Inquiry Britain Charges Man In Death Of The Afghan Rebel Leader By Warren Hoge LONDON, Oct. 30 - An Egyptian who was said to have given a letter of accreditation to two men who posed as television journalists to assassinate the Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud was charged today with conspiracy under Britain's antiterrorism law. Mr. Massoud, the commander of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, was fatally wounded on Sept. 9, two days before the terror attacks in the United States, by two Arab men who detonated bombs on their bodies and in their television camera at the beginning of a supposed interview in remote northeastern Afghanistan. He died sometime before Sept. 13, but the exact date is not known. The Egyptian, Yasser al-Siri, 38, who lives in London, was arrested a week ago in a police raid on a West London apartment after members of Parliament urged authorities to investigate his ties to the plot. He appeared today in the top- security Belmarsh Magistrates Court to answer charges of conspiring to murder Mr. Massoud, and additional counts of seeking support for a banned organization, inviting funds for terrorism, publishing material likely to stir up racial hatred and arranging for the availability of property for the purposes of terrorism. He was ordered to appear for trial Nov. 7 at the Old Bailey criminal court. Police officials said Mr. Siri sought asylum in Britain in 1994, after an Egyptian court found him guilty in absentia of a failed bomb attack on Prime Minister Atef Sidki in Cairo. The attack killed a young schoolgirl. Mr. Siri ran an organization he set up in London in 1995 called the Islamic Observation Center, which describes itself as "concerned with human rights issues for Muslims all over the world." British officials have accused it of issuing a statement in behalf of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's network. Mr. Siri insisted in a recent newspaper interview that he was no more than a messenger and had no connection to Mr. bin Laden. He admitted giving the two men a letter of accreditation but said he did not know their intentions. Investigators have speculated that the killing of Mr. Massoud was carried out to remove him as a possible ally of the United States in case of retaliation on Mr. bin Laden's group after the suicide hijackings. Mr. Siri was the spokesman for the armed Islamic movement for the last five years, Agence France-Presse reported from Cairo. The agency identified him as a former member of the Egyptian Jihad organization led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who is the chief deputy to Mr. bin Laden. It said that Mr. Siri lived in Sudan in 1993, when Mr. bin Laden was based there. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Pinpoint the right security solution for your company- Learn how to add 128- bit encryption and to authenticate your web site with VeriSign's FREE guide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yQix2C/33_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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