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TH E W A S H I N G T O N POSTS py A gencies' O ptimismO n A l Qaeda Is GrowingLadi o f Attacks Thougi t to Show G r o u p Is Near l y C r i p p l e d

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PI NC B S and D A N A P U E S TWash ing t on Pos t Staf f Wri ter sThe Mure of al Qaeda to launch terrorist at-tacks against the United States or its allies dur-ing the war in Iraq has bolstered a growing beliefamong U.S.intelligence agencies that 19 monthsof worldwide counterterrorism operations andarrests have nearly crippled the organization.W hile warning that al Qaeda still appears ca-pable of mounting substantial terrorist opera-tions, senior intelligence officials and membersof Congress who review classified material onthe matter speak optimistically about the prog-ress made since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks bythe C IA and FB I working with their foreigncounterparts.The starkest reflection of alQaeda's status, ac-cording to terrorism experts, has been the lackof reprisals for the U.S.-led war against Iraq, es-pecially after leader Osama bin Laden, in an au-diotape released April 7, urged followers tomount suicide attacks against the United Statesan d Britain to "avenge the innocent children5...assassinated in Iraq." By contrast, in 2002, binLaden messages preceded orfollowed attacksbyal Qaeda and its associates inPakistan, Tunisia,Kuwait, Yemen and Bah*.Intelligence officials said the killings or cap-ture of senior al Qaeda members, the in-terrogation of imprisoned figures, the elimina-tion of A fghanistan as a base of operations, andthe ongoing hunt for other al Qaeda adherentshasdisrupted the network's ability to communi-cate and made it much more difficult for it toplan large-scale attacks.IB addition, officials said, increased vigilanceby U.S. and allied intelligence services has in-creased their ability to deter or disrupt terroristoperations. Some pointed to the successby U.S.an d Pakistani authorities last week in foiling anapparent al Qaeda plan to fly an explosives-ladenaircraft into the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Paki-stan, as anexample.The al Qaeda leadership was significantly dis-

In an interview, Black, who was in charge ofthe CIA's counterterrorism center before and inthe immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11attacks,described the al Qaeda leadership's losses as"catastrophic" and said the broader network"has been unable to withstand the global on-slaught" ofcounterterrorism operations.Black also said the color-coded U.S. domesticakrt system put in placeby the Bush administra-tion has helped to "complicate and defeat what-ever planning has been in train and hasput in se-rioes question any plan in development."Other intelligence officials tend to agree, al-though most, including Black, temper theirsense of confidence by noting that further at-tacks, including those hatched some time ago,are still possible. They worry about hidden alQaeda cells in the United States that might bewaiting for the right moment to launch an at-tack, and about the FBI's ability to find andstopthem."One is tempted to say [al Qaeda] iscrippled,"one senior intelligence analyst said. "But theyare still capable of more major operations," in-cluding those "they have had in the works foryears."A lthough bin Laden an d A y m a n Zawahiri, alQaeda's second incommand, remainat large, thenetwork's original core group ofabout 20 seniorleaders has been sharply reduced. AsPresidentBush noted in his speech aboard the USSA b ra -ham Lincoln on Thursday, "nearly one-half of alQaeda's senior operatives have been captured orkilled." Senior intelligence officials point out that theremnants of the network "have difficulty com-manicatingwith each otherandwith operativesin the field, have difficulty moving funds andmateriel around" and have not managed to es-tablish any new training camps. What's more,one official said, "every time they seem to be re-constituting themselves, they suffer another


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FocusIncreasesOn Hamas,HezbollahRul ing EnablesI n t e n s i f i e d Probes

OHN MINTZington Post Staf f Wr i te r

< - Wieldingnew powers granted bya; six-month-old federal court deci-sion, the FBI has greatly intensifieddecade-old'investigations ofallegedU-S. supporters of the Islamic Re-sistance Movement and Hezbollahterrorist groups, according to gov-ernment officials.~ Confident that its efforts to trackthe al Qaeda terrorist network inthis country are beginning to payoff, the FBI is devoting more re-ajmrces to the two Middle Easterngroups, which command morewidespread support in Arab andMuslim communities here. Offi-cials say that there are active Hezbollah cells in this country but thatfljost of their renewed efforts areaimed at alleged financial support-ers of both groups ncluding Is-lamic centers, charities and crimi-nal rings from Washington, toBetroit to LosAngeles../. Thestepped-up investigations inat least two dozen U.S. cities weretriggered by a November 2002 rul-ing from a secretive three-judge ap-

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Wedding VideoLinks 9/11 PilotsTo Other PlottersAssociated Press

BERLIN, May 7 A weddingvideo that became crucial evi-dence in the investigation of theSept. 11, 2001, attacks has beenbroadcast for the first time andshows men identified as suicidepilots celebrating wjth other al-leged plotters.Aired by ABC and CNN, thetape includes a close-up of abearded Marwan Al-Shehhi, be-lieved to have piloted the jet thathit the South Tower of the WorldTrade Center, tie hadsiJfcthe tune of the attacks. Alsoshown are Mohamed Atta,pilotoftheplane that hit the NorthTw-er, and Ziad Samir Jarrah, pilotofthe plane that crashed in Penn-sylvania.The footage of the 1999 wed-ding of Said Bahaji at a Hamburgmosque provided authorities withcritical links between the hijack-ers and other suspected membersof the Hamburgal Qaeda cell thatorganized the attacks. Bahaji isnow a fugitive.Thetape includesa fiery speechby Ramzi Binalshibh, the suspect-edplanner of the attacks who is inUS. custodyafter his arrest inPa-kistan in September. He is heardsaying that "every Muslim muat

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THI W A S H I N G T O N POSTSurveillance Bill SailsThrough Senate'Mou s saou i Fix ' W o u ld Eas e Laws o n Obta in ing Warran t ^n m %T A B A S SU M Z A K A R I Aflnttert

The Senate yesterday over-whelmingly approved a bill in-teaded to close a legal loopholethat lawmakers say prevented thePH from obtaining a warrant toconduct surveillance of terroristaspect Zacarias Moussaoui beforethe Sept. 11,2001, attacks.The legislation, known as the"IfcuBsaoui fix," was approved 90

to 4. It would makeit easier for theFBI to seek warrants for wiretapsand searches on non-Americanssuspected of planning terrorist at-tacks, by eliminating a require-ment to show the suspect wascon-nected to a known terrorist groupor a country that sponsors terror-ism.

The FBI did not pursue a war-rant to search Moussaoui's com-puter before the Sept. 11 attacksbecause officiate believed they

could not show the Foreign In-telligence Surveillance Court thathe was tied to a terrorist group atcountry that sponsored terrorism,senators said. Moussaoui ischarged with conspiring in the at-tacks. Moussaoui was in custodyon immigration charges when theattacks occurred. Hehas denied be-ing part ofthe Sept. 11 plot 'The 1978Foreign IntelligenceSee SURVEILLANCE,47, Col. l'

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Currently the FBI is required tomeet three standards to obtainwarrants from theFISA courtthetarget is preparing to engage in in-ternational terrorism, a significantpurpose of the surveillance is togather foreign intelligence and thesubject is an agent of a known for-


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Israeli Helicopters Attack andKill aBy G R E G M Y R E

_ , May 8 .Israeliattack helicopters fired missiles thatkilled a senior Hamas militant driv-ing in Gaza City today. Three morePalestinians werekilled in scatteredviolence, including one who blewhimself up with a car bomb next toan Israeli tank insouthern GazaThe bloodshed pointed to the chal-lenges facing Secretary of State Col-

in L. Powell, who is scheduled toarrive Saturday for talks onputtingthe latest Middle East peace plan,called the road map, into effect.The plan says Palestinians must

halt attacks, and Israel is required towithdraw troops from Palestinianareas, but the fighting has not subsid-ed since it was introduced last week."As long as the new Palestiniangovernment does not take steps tostop terror, and it hasn't taken anystep until today to stop the terror,Israel will act," Prime Minister Ari-el Sharon said in a taped interviewshown tonight on Israeli television.He was referring to the Palestin-ian prime minister, Mahmoud Ab-bas, who took office last week. ButM r. Sharon also said he believed Mr.Abbas understood that "it is notpos-

sible to defeat Israel with terror. Isee him as a partner."Around midday, a pair of Israeli.helicopters fired the missiles thatstruck Eyad al-Beik, 30, a leading Hamas figure, and left his white se-"t&n W r a n g le d and scorched to theSheik Radwan neighborhood inGazaCity, a Hamas stronghold.

The Israeli Army said Mr. Beflchad organized multiple attacks Actkilled 19 Israeli soldiers and civil-ians. Israeli security sources ah wsaid that he was involved inefforts toestablish a ceH of Al Qaeda, the ter-rorist network, titGaza.

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in GazaAs an angry Palestinian crowdsurrounded the car and called forrevenge, Palestinian leaders ques-

Gaza.Meanwhile, Mr. Sharon said he-_would be" prepared to restart peacetalks with Syria. Negotiations overthe Golan Heights,which Israel cap-tured from Syria in Ehe 1967 war,

, ^southern Gaza, a Palestiniandetonated a car bod* next to anIsraeli tank, but kilted only himself.Soldiers guarding the Jewish settle*ment of Kfar Darom were nearbyr


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Saudis Seek 19 Suspected of Terrorist PlotB y D O U G L A S JEHL

W A S H I N G T O N , M a y 9 After aShootout in Riyadh, the Saudi capital,an d th e discovery of a m aj or armscache there, Saudi authorities arepursuing 19 Islamic militants withties to Al Qaeda who now appear tohave been planninga substantial ter-rorist attack, Saudi and Americanofficials said today.In an indication of how seriouslyth e threat is being taken in SaudiArabia, the Saudi government hasbeen unusually open in discussing it,even making public th e names andphotographs of the wanted men inthe country'snewspapers and televi-sion broadcasts this week.With the militants still at largethree days after a raid in Riyadh,Saudi an d American officials saidthey could not or would not say whatthey thought th e target of a plannedattack might have been. But they/aid they regarded the group as hav-* i m g been planning a significant oper-^ajtion whose most likely objectivewould have been an American targetin th e kingdom."Tremendous damage could havebeen done," a senior Saudi officialsaid today of the plot, which wasuncovered beginning Tuesday nightafter a raid on a home in Riyadh.Among the weapons seized were800pounds of advanced explosives along,vftth hand grenades, assault rifles,ammunition, disguises an d tens ofthousands of dollars in cash, th e Sau-di government has said.T he raid came several days afterthe State Department, on May 1,issued an extraordinarily specificwarning about possible terrorist at-tacks in the kingdom, saying theUnited States had received intelli--gence-report* indicating-aMt|;-tBiii*-tants "may be in the final phases ofplanning attacks" on American in-terests in Saudi Arabia.In a kingdom whose governmenthas always been extraordinarily reti-cent, particularly in discussing mat-ters related to the involvement ofSaudi citizens in terrorism and do-

"They are sending the clear signalthat there's a clear threat, andthey're taking it seriously," said anAmerican official, who spoke on con-dition of anonymity. A Saudi officialsaid the signal was aimed both at theUnited States, where critics haveoften accused th e kingdom of tryingto hide its problems, and at ordinarySaudis themsehfeSr-seme of whomhave become impatient with the gov-ernment's dustomary secrecy.While investigators from bothcountries believe the most likely tar-get was an American installation, asenior Saudi official, said another"possibility was an attack aimed at asenior member of the Saudi royalfamily , like Prince Sultan bin AbdelAziz, the defense minister, or Prince.Nayef bin Abdel Aziz, the interiorminister, two frequent targets ofcriticism by Saudi militants.Am on g the 19 militants beingsought, th e Saudi government an-nounced this week, 17 are Saudis,with known connections to Al Qaeda,Ameri can an d Saudi officials said. Asenior Saudi official said that most ifno t all had served in Afghanistan orChechnya and had links to radicalclerics.Jamal Khashoggi, who is editor ofth e Saudi newspaper Al W atan and isan expert on Islamic militants, saidin a telephone InterviewJrom Jiddatoday: "It is a big network, it is aserious network and it is obvious that-'*tbey-were planning _ g s & -8T massivecampaign of terrorism,''American an d Saudi officialswould not or could not say whetherthe intelligence rqwrts that hadprompted the recent State Depart-ment warning were directly relatedto the group of militants"no w beingsought by Saudi officials. But the

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Publication:With all 19suspects still at !a(rge,Saudi officials today said they did notknow when or where the group hadplanned to attack, but they said theybelieved that the most likely targetwould have been a site related toAmerican interests in the kingdom.They said, however, that they had n^ truled out the possibility that Saudileaders themselves might have beenthe targets, possibly including lead-jng members of the royal family.T he Saudi government is offering

a-reward of up to $80,000 fo r informa-tion leading to the capture of thesuspects,whoincluded a Yemeniandan Iraqi with Canadian and Kuwaitipassports.That Al Qaeda remains active inSaudi Arabia is not a surprise. Itsfounder, Osama bin Laden, is a Sau-di, and he has long cited his home-land and the royal Al Saud family asthe principal exhibits in his efforts toenlist fellow Muslims in a jihad, orholy war, against what he has por-trayed as corrupt Arab rulers andtheir Western allies.A t least one of two m aj or terroristbombings of American military tar-gets in Saudi Arabia during the1990's was carried out by militantsinspired, if not directed, by Mr. bin


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Germans ChargeA nother M oroccanty l frudi Accused o f Aid ing 9 / 1 1 Pbt ters

'ashington Post Foreign ServiceBERLIN, M ay 9German pros-

< cutttrs today charged a 30-year-^ < M - M oroccan with accessory toi iiass murder in th e Sept 11,2001,ittacks in the U nited States, open-ri g th e second German prosecu-onfof a veteran of an al Qaedaraining camp in A fghanistan wh o: Begedry provided crucial logisticalsupport in the plot.A M elghani M zoudi, a native offlarfaucech wh o came to Germanyii 1993 to pursue an electrical engi-neering degree, was arrested hi[aniwrg last October on sttspi-(ionfef connections with the Hain-1 urgcefl that planned the attacks.B ut German authorities broad-< ned the accusations today to in-i l u d f t 3,066 counts of accessory toi mrder an d membership in a ter-i onst organization. If convicted,M zoudi faces a prison sentence ofup ta 15years.jM a u n ir M otassadeq, a former1 torakech neighbor and friend oflifzoudi's, was convicted of the

: j E U D 6 chdT^cs m r f a n ^ l b m r f lr H I i % & *ruary and sentenced to the majd-Vam term of 15 years. H is lawyert appealed based principally ont that M otassadeq wasI a fair trial because VS . au-refused to turn over po-' crucial witnesses in their

! M ioudi's trial, which win no t be-i j n until fall at th e earnest, is Kkelyo resemble the case against M o-

Before his arrest, M zoudi said ininterviews that he had nothing todo with the hijackings. H e main-tains that position now, accordingto friends who have been in touchwith him through his attorneys.he wfll face a trial if that iswhat A l-lah has written fo r him,* said Ha-tem Saed, an Egyptian friend ofM zoudi's in Hamburg wh o de-scribed him as "a very lonely andvery private man."Other friends, including hisroommate at the time of his arrest,said M zoudi wa s very devout andintrospective and was frustratedbyhis inability to find a wife. "If wewere at home hegatin a corner an dread, mostly tafs ir" an interpreta-tion of the Koran, said A bderrasakLabied, 39, a M oroccan, "When hehved with me there wa s always onebig topic:marriage."B ut a search of the one-roomapartment they shared, police said,turned up evidence of other topics:a threeiiour video in which a Lon-don-based radical preacher spokeof the "task of removing the non-believers* governments, kfllingtheir children, taking their wom enand destroying their houses," ac-cording to court records.

M zoudi was the seventh of ninechildren of a bank official, and hisfamily had no history of radicalism,according to M oroccan officials.After studying physics and chem-istry at a university in M arrakechfrom 1991 to 1993, M zoud i appliedto a ttend college in Germany.

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By BENJAMIN WEISERFedeMif pro*se*cutors have agreedto dismiss charges in Manhattan

against a Qatar! man who prosecu-tors say was associated with A l Qa-eda, and will instead prosecute himin Illinois, a new court filing shows.The defendant, A li al-Marri, hasbeen charged with lying to the au-thorities in the Sept. 11 investigation,and other charges.His lawyer, LawrenceS.Lustberg,said by phone yesterday that if Mr.al-Marri, who has pleaded not guilty,has to face a trial, he has the right tobe tried in Illinois, where he was3e said his clientNe w York was the site of the terror-ist attacks."He madethe decision," Mr.Lust-berg said, "and it'sa rational one,that New York might not be theoptimal place to try the case. Webelieve that there's a greater likeli-hood, given the underlying allega-tions, that he would get a fairer trialthere."In a letter to a federal judge inManhattan, the United States attor-fcv's office, said a criminal com-plaiJlUiad been|Jjed against Mr. al-JaaffW^fc" Illinois, and that .the

A Qatari man claimsthat he has lesschance of a fair trialin New York.

Besides lying to the authorities,the charges against Mr. al-Marri in-clude possessing credit card num-bers that were not his.M r. al-Marri has notbeen chargeddirectly with terrorism, but a pros-ecutor/jas-saJd,in ^tayt that he was,associated with A l QaeHa,*and uslPcredit card fraud toprovide "materi-al support" in that role.M r. al-Marri was also accused oflying to the authorities about makingphone calls to a man in the UnitedArab Emirates .whom prosecutorssay was a pivotal figure in the Sept.11 attacks.That man, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, has been described as a.kind of financier for the hijackers.He has been arrested, and is inAmerican custody at an undisclosedlocation, officials have said.


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U.S. Expels Saudi Envoy;Terrorist Ties SuspectedL O S A N G E L E S A Saudi consularo f f i c i a l w as held for two days and ex-pelled from the United States thisweek because he was suspected ofhaving links with terrorist organiza-tions, the Los Antfetes Times sad.

Fahad al Thumairy; 31, arrivedTuesday from ftankfurt to learn thathis visa ha d been revoked in March.He was barred from returning fo rfive years, an d Thursday was put onan .international flight, the paperquoted the Department of Home-land Security as saying.H e ha d been at the Saudi C onsul-ate in Los A ngeles since 1996 andhdd a diplomatic post in the Islamicand cultural affairs section.Th e newspaper said a State De-partment communique specificallymentioned al Thumairy's "suspected


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Rober t D . NovakThe Improving FBI

A month ago, FBI Director Rob-ert Mueller received an unsolicited,wamected letter fromCol. EdwardT. Norris, Maryland's newly ap-pointed state police superinten-dent As Baltimore police chief,Norriswasone of the FBI's sharpestoffice after the 9/11 terrorist at-No w he concedes improve-

Tfou have fulfilled promises youOMde to me," Norris wrote Mueller.1nowhave asecurity clearanceandreceive regular briefings from themffitary and the FBI. This is ex-tremely helpful and enables me todeploy resources accurately and ef-ficiently." He added a handwrittenpoatecript:Tour leadership is mak-tag a difference."Norris was one of the policechiefs I interviewed after 9/11whocomplained that the FBI remaineduncooperative. Now he hascon-firmed to me what he wrote Muel-ler, that the FBI's sixth director isthe first to really change the bureau.Ne w York City Police Commission-er Ray Kelly, in his second hitchheading th e NYPD after runningthe U.S. Customs Service in Wash-ington, told me, "Mueller is doingweti,but he has an uphill job chang-ing the culture of the FBI."That "culture" was described tome by an NYPD veteran who askedthat hisnamenotbe used:TheFBIhat always thought it is superior tothe localcops. The reason for refus-iag to share information was arro-pace. That has changed somerince 9/11, but it hasn't disap-peared." This is a new and improv-ing, though not completely im-proved, FBIunder Mueller.Thechange is typified by the wayM ueller reacts to criticism. When Iwrote a column about the director's

whistle-blowing agent Coleen Row-ley, it looked like the same old Ff I.During our conversation, however,Mueller did not punch back.Thedirector told me that Specterwas "absolutely right to take us totask for not responding earlier" tothe senator. Mueller said he wasInthe process of preparing a reply" toRowley before she gave her com-plaint to two newspapers. Muelleris known to have a low opinion pfRowley, but he chose not to sparwith one of Time magazine's Per-sons of the Year. "I don't want topublicly reply," he told me.Mueller did not pretend that thehalf-century of contempt fo r localcopsespecially the NYPDend-ed in a year and a half. The FBI's re-fusal to share its information con-tinued even in New York Cityimmediately after the9/11attacks,when then-Mayor Rudolph Giulianiraged at FBI officials. Having takenthe oath only seven days before theterrorist attacks, Mueller seemeMpowerless then. ' i"I thinkit'simprovedsubstantial-ly since September llth,"Muellertold me, "but it'sbeen slowin com-ing, andwe're not wherewewant obe." Local police chiefs such as Ri yKelly an d Ed Norris have finallygot-ten security clearances, thoughMueller admits that "it took awhlet o s o r t i t o u t . " JMueller had to virtually reinventthe FBIfrom installing a moderncomputer system to applying cen-tralized decision-making. In settinga new bureau priority of protectingAmerican* from terrorist attackMueller changed itsmission. "Priorto September llth," he told me,"our focus had been too much tinmaking cases as opposed to pulliagin bigger pieces of information. Ty-


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SELECTIVE INTELLIGENCEDonald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?

BY JEYMOUR M. HER5H'I%e y call themselves, self-mockingly,JL the Cabala small cluster of pol-icy advisers and a nalysts now based in thePentagon's Office of Special Plans. Inthe past year, according to former and

present Bush Administration officials,their operation, which was conceived byPaul Wolfowitz, the DeputySecretary ofDefense, has brought about a crucialchange of direction in the American in-telligence community. These advisers andanalysts, who began their work in thedays after September 11,2001,have pro-duced a skein of intelligence reviews thathave helped to shape public opinion andAme rican policy towar d Iraq. They reliedon data gathered by other intelligenceagencies and also on information pro-vided by the Iraqi National Congress, orI.N.C.,the exile group headed byAhmadChalabi. By last fall, the oper ation rivalledboth the C.I.A and the Pentagon's ownDefense Intelligence Agency, theD.IA.,as President B ush's ma in source of intel-ligence regarding Iraq's possible posses-sion of weapons of mass d estruction andconnection with Al Qaeda. As of lastweek, no such weapons had been found .And although ma ny people, within theAdministration and outside it, professconfidence that something will turn up,the integrity ofmuch of that intelligenceis now in question.The director of the Special Plans op-eration is Abram Shulsky, a scholarlyexpe rt in the works of the politicalphilos-opher L eo Strauss. Shulsky has be en qui-etly working on intelligence a nd foreign-

against Iraq, and, as the Administrationmoved toward war and policymakingpower shifted towa rd the civilians in thePentagon, he tookonincreasingly impor-tan t responsibilities.

W.Patrick L ang, the form er chief ofMiddle East intelligence at theD.I A,said,The Pentagon hasbanded togetherto dominate the government's foreignpolicy, and they've pulled it off. They'rerunning Chalabi. The D.IA. hasbeenintimidated and beaten to a pulp. Andthere's noguts at all n theC.IA"

The hostility goes both ways. A Pen-tagon official who works for Luti toldme ,1did a job when the intelligence community wasn't do ing theirs. We recognizedthe fact that they hadn't done the analysis.We were providing information to Wol-fowitz that he had n't seen before. The in-telligence comm unity is still looking for amission like they had in the Cold War ,when they spoon-fed the policymakers."

A Pentagon adviser who hasworkedwith Special Plans dismissed any criti-cism of the operation as little more thanbureaucraticwhining. "Shulsky and L utiwo n the policy debate," the adviser said."Theybeat 'emthey cleaned up againstState and theC.IA There's nomysterywhy they wonbecause they were moreeffective in making their argument. Lutiis sma rter than the opposition. Wolfowitzis smarter.They out-argued them. It wasa fair fight. Theypersuaded the Presidentof the need to make a new securitypolicy.Those who lose are sogood at trying tounde rcut those whowon." He added,"I'd


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questionsexpulsionDenies envoyhas terror linksFrom combineddispatchesDUBAISaud i ArabiahasaskedWashington toexplain the expulsionof a Saudi envoy reportedly barredfrom the United States over reportedlinks tBLterrorists, a Saudi diplo-jaaatic sowBe said yesterday.bodyat the embassy could haveanydirect or indirect links to terror-ism," said the source, who declinedto be named."there are some talks with theU.S. StateOepartment to findoutthereasons, for expelling Fahad al-Thu-mairy," he said.i eLo s

,,.,...__. ,official and prayer leader at a localmosque, was held for two days andexpelled last week on suspicion ofhaying links with terrorist organi-zations.It said hearrived on a flight fromFrankfurt, Germany, on Tuesday atLosAngeles International Airport tolearn his visa had been revoked inMarch.He was barred from returningfo r five years,and on Thursdaywasput on an international flight, the

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me newspaper cited an uniden-tified official source assayinga StateDepartment communique specifi-cally mentionedlhat Mr.Thuhiairyhad "suspected affiliation withter-rorists."In Riyadh, Mr. Thumairy,31,toldthe Saudi-owned daily newspaperAsharq Al-Awsat that he had beenneither detained nor interrogatedby U.S. authorities before being de-ported.The newspaper quoted him say-ing after his return to Saudi Arabiathat he had not been aware that hisdiplomatic visa had been revokedbefore his arrival in Los Angeles.Immigration officials at the air-port "told me that the issue waslinked only to the revoking of myvisa and raised no other demands orsuspicions," he was quoted as say-ing."I don't recall committing any vi-olation. Perhaps the action was


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Western Targets Bombed in Riyadh_7 tfPowell, Due in Saudi Capital, Says Attacks H ave the 'Earmarks' of Al QaedaBy G L E N N K E S S L E R and A L A N SIPHESSW a s h i n g t o n P o s t S t a f f W r i t e r s

A M M A N , Jordan, May 13 (Tuesday)Explosions hit a U.S.-Saudi business and threehousing compounds used by U.S. and other for-eign residents M onday night and early today inRiyadh, the capital of Saudi A rabia, hours beforeSecretary of State Colin L. Powell was to arrivethere to discuss M iddle East peace efforts andthe war against terrorism, according to reportsf r o m the kingdom.The enormous blasts destroyed parked cars

and knocked out the windows and doors ofhomes, according to a Saudi source reached bytelephone in Riyadh. At least 30 ambulancesw ere dispatched to the sites and many casualtieswere reported, includingdeaths, he said. Severalpeople were missing. ' :A senior U.S. o f f i c i a l in Washington said twoWesterners were confirmed dead and si|*weremissing, and the U.S. ambassador to Saucli Ara-bia, Robert W. Jordan, said on CNN that morethan 40 Americans had been wounded.Officials reached by phone at two hospitals re-ported treating several dozen victims. M any of

the victims had been burned and were in seriouscondition. At least one died, they said.At a news conference today in the Jo rdaniancapital before he l e f t for Saudi Arabia, Powellsaid he did not know w ho carried out the attacks,but added: The suspects are dear though. It hasthe earmarks of al Qaeda."The population in the targeted compounds isabout 40 percent Saudis and other Arabs, andabout 60 percent other foreigners, includingAm ericans and Britons w orking in SaudiArabia,

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WASHINGTONIN BRIEFSepL 11 Attack Victims'LawyersFight Fee CapLawyers for the families of the3,000 victims of the Sept 11,2001,terrorist attacks are organizing anemergency fax and telephone cam-paign to urge the defeat of a'measurethat would cap lawyers' fees on largelawsuits.T he lawyers say th e legislation,proposed by Sens. Jon K yi (R-Am.)and John Cornyn (R-Tex.), wouTdlfrfectively end their suit against topSaudi Arabian officials and charities. .1w h o they s a y helped f u n i * * *and bear partial responsibility fo rth e attacks on th e World Trade Cen-ter and Pentagon. The senators saythey hope to attach the proposal tothe fiscal 2004 budge t b f l l this week.These plaintiffs don't have mil-lions of dollars to finance m e to in-vestigate this international case,"said South Carolina attorney RonaldMotley, who, with his firm , has spent$7 million on the suit in the pastyear. This measure w ould under-mine people who try to sue terroristsympathizers, but doesn't a f f e c t th eSaudis' ability to pay law yers."


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Terror SleeperCell Suspect ::Pleads Guilty \ P r e s sBUFFALO, May 12A fifth member ofan alleged terrorist sleeper cell in a Buffalosuburb pleaded guilty today to supportingterrorism. . ' , " "Y asein Tah er, 25, admitted learning jto,ftre

guns and grenade launchers at an al Qaedacamp in Afghanistan months before/ th eSept 11,2001,attacks. vTaher, acting against his attorney's adyiqe,became th e fiftti member of agroup o f six Y e -meni A mericans to enter a plea agreementwith the government in the case. He is ex-pected to receive a n eight-year prison termwhen he is sentenced in September. . ,Prosecutors said Taher trained at the ' A f -ghan camp and was a member of a sleepercell, a team of trained terrorists who lie dor-ma nt until called to action. / [ - IT he other men, Faysal Galab, 27; ShafalMosed, 24; Sahim Ahvan, 30; and Yahya 0-ba , 26, also have been offered sentences ofbetween seven and 10 years. T he sentencesare contingent upon their cooperation in'thjsan d future terrorism investigations, j

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Toll in Saudi Arabia Rises to at Least 20, U.S. Official SaysBy STEVEN R. WEISMAN

R IYAD H, Saudi Arabia, May 13 The death toll from three car bomb attacks late Monday nightthat blasted apart buildings in separate residential compounds occupied by Americans and otherforeigners rose to at least 20 today, w ith scores of others w ound ed, a United States official said.The suicide attacks spread terror and confusion through the night and drew condemnation fromPresident B ush , Saudi leaders and Secretary of State C olin L. Powell, who arrived in Riyad h forscheduled talks w ith Crow n Prince Abdullah only ho urs after the blasts.M r. Powell toured an apartment complex where th e entire front was blown o ff. There was furniture andclothing strewn about the area around a 10-foot-deep crater and nearby there was an overturned truckthat had been blasted apart.Mr. Powell seemed shaken as he toured the site, just as a dust storm whipped throug h the rubble and apungent stench f rom the explosives hung in the torrid air."This was a well-planned terrorist attack, obviously," he said somberly. "The facility had been cased, ashad the others. Very well executed. And it shows the nature of the enemy we are working against.These are people w ho are determined to try to penetrate facilities like this for purpos e of killing peoplein their sleep, killing innocent people, killing people w ho a re trying to help others."Like other officials, Mr. Powell said there was no evidence that Al Qaeda had carried out the attack, buthe said it had that group's "fingerprints."[President Bush reacted angrily to the attack."Today's attacks in Saudi Arabia, the ruthless m urder of Am erican c itizens and other citizens, rem ind usthat the war on terror continues," he said at an appearance in Indianapolis.The president called the bombings "despicable acts committed by killers whose only faith is hate." Thecrowd of 7,000 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds roared its approval when he said, "The United Stateswill find th e killers, and they will learn the meaning of American justice."]

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W ASH INGT ON , May 14 The U nited States A mbassador to Saudi Arabia said today that theUnited States sought unsuccessfully to persuade the Saudi government to tighten securityaround residential compounds in Riyadh before Monday night's attacks.The ambassador, Robert W . Jordan, said the request ha d been prompted by intelligence reports that bylate last month had indicated that militants might be in the final stages of planning a terrorist attack."A s soon as we learned of this particular threat information, we contacted the Saudi government,"Am bassador Jordan said on the CBS program "The Early Show.""W e continue to work with the Saudis on this, but they did not,as of the time of this tragic event,provide the additional security we requested."A spokesman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, Nail al-Jubeir, said he did not know of anyspecific request made by the United States government."Was there more that could have been done?" M r. Jubeir said. "You ca n always ask that question inhindsight. But the fact is, these were soft targets, and it'svery difficult to protect every residentialcompound."For more than two weeks before the Monday bom bings, American and Saudi officials had grownincreasingly alarmed by intercepted communications that provided what they called "strong indications"that Islamic militants were preparing a terrorist attack against Am ericans in Saudi Arabia."W e had indicators that they were planning something," a senior United States government official saidon Tuesday. "We didn't know exactly what."The answe r came this week in Riyadh, with the precise, w ell-coordinated strikes that claimed at least 20victims, including at least seven Americans, at three civilian housing complexes.

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he deadly suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia serve as a reminder if anyone needed it that th ethreat of terrorism out of the Middle East is still very much with us .The attacks, which seem to have killed at least 20 people, were aimed at several compounds that houseWesterners working in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Within th e walls of the compounds, non-Muslims areable to replicate so mething akin to the lifestyles they had back home. Am erican expatriates see them asa means of maintaining their own cultural preferences, fo r free mixing of the sexes and the availabilityof alcohol and uncensored movies, w ithin th e strict Wahhabi religious dictates of Saudi society. ButIslamic fundamentalists have always been affronted by the enclaves, and for terrorists, th e compoundsserve as a handy symbol of the modern Western culture they despise. Attacking them also ensuresintense publicity.The Saudi governm ent, wh ich relies on foreign workers to support key parts of its economy,understands that it must move quickly to root out the people who strove to make a political point byplotting yet anoth er murderous attack. That is the obvious first step. The second must be internalreforms that w ill reduce th e population of unemployed, angry, disenfranchised youn g people whoconnect the United States with a government that ignores their problems.The Bush administration is already embarked on a plan to take American troops out of Saudi Arabia.That is a smart idea that will eliminate one target of fundamentalist ire, put our soldiers where they ca nbe more e asily protected and give th e Saudi royal family an opening to begin making political andeconomic concessions to its restless people. Nothing that happened this week should deter theadministration from pursuing that plan.Many in the Western world will always view the tragedy of Sept. 11 as being about America, but to thepeople who carried it out, th e terrorist attack was as much about Saudi Arabia. The United States is asupporting player in the terrorists' own internal political dram a, which centers on fundamentalis treligion, a grandiose vision of their own role in world affairs and an anger at the Saudi governm ent'salliance with non-M uslim Western nations.The Bush administration hopes to replace that story with a new one, involving democracy, econo micopportunity and liberty. It would begin with a new e ra in Iraq, the road to peace in Israel an d increasingdemocratization in other Arab nations. Right now , with chaos in Baghdad and foot-dragging by Israel,


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T he Riyadh Bom bECRETARY OFSTATE C olin L . Powell isright: The horrific terrorist attack in Ri-yadh, Saudi Arabia, ate Monday night hadddl "the earmarks of al Qaeda." It was a carefully^coordinated strike by mu ltiple suicide bombers*that exploited the vulnerabilities of closely['guarded foreigners' compounds and wreaked"'fextraordinary damage. It must have required^excellent intelligence, months of careful plan-aning, substantial financing and a group of high-sly disciplined and motivated operatives. Though not on the scale of 9/11, the attack wast comparable to al Qaeda's simultaneous bomb-ing of two U.S. embassies in Africa five years< * a go a t a time when the organization was in-1j t a c t an d operating above ground in Afghani-9stan. Th e latest strike is a tragedy for the fami-* ties of the victims an d may cause new strains in.already tense U.S.-Saudi relations. But m ost of(all it is a demonstration that notwithstanding-ithe Bush administration's recent claims ofprogress, al Qaeda remains far from van-quished.rK Saudi Arabia has now been the site of three inajor terrorist bombings against A merican ar -

cluding 17 Saudi nationals, operating under th edirect command of Osama bin Laden. C l e a i f c rthe ability of the United States and its allies totrack al Qaeda's movements and break up itsoperations before they occur is improving; sev-eral attacks, including a major bombing in Paki-stan, were headed off in recent months. Thecoming weeks will o f f e r an important test ofwhether Saudi authorities, w ho cooperated on-ly haltingly w ith U.S. investigators after previ-ous attacks, a re willing to p ursue this case ag-gressively and f u l l y share any findings with theBush administration.Though the investigation may yield unex-pected results, the bombing already seems tohave belied the recent assertion of Saudi Arabi-an Interior M inister Prince Nayef that al Qaed*was "weak and almost nonexistent" It ad ocasts doubt on President Bush's boast, in hisvictory speech aboard an aircraft carrier return-ing from the Persian Gulf, that "we have seenthe turning of the tide" in the w ar on terrorism.There have indeed been major successesagainst al Qaeda, including the destruction ofits sanctuary in Afghanistan and the capture or


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Saudis Tie Al Qaeda to AttacksAt Least 7 Americans Among 29 Dead in Coordinated BombingsBy Glenn KesslerWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, May 14, 2003; Page A01RIYAD H, S audi Arabia, May 13 A known al Qaeda cell headedby a veteran Saudi militant whotrained in Afghanistan carried outthe coordinated ca r bombings lateMonday that ripped apartbuildings and homes in threecompounds inhabited byAmericans an d other Westernersin Riyadh, Saudi officials saidtoday.The ferocious explosions, whicherupted in the Saudi capital justbefore midnight, killed at least 29people, including sevenAm ericans and nine attackers, theSaudi Interior Ministry reported.More than 190 people wereinjured in the nearly simultaneousblasts, many so seriously theywere not expected to live, theofficials said, w arning that thefinal death toll could surpass 100.

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The fronts of buildings w ere sheare d off by attacksin Riyadh late Monday aimed at complexeshousing Westerners. (Television Pool Image ViaAP )

Multimedia Audio: The Post's Glenn Kessler inSaudi Arabia describes the destructionat one of the bom bed housingcompounds. MSNBC Video: Bush denoun cesbombings in Saudi Arabia as the work of"kil lers who se only faith is hate." MSNBC.yideo: Secretary of StateColin Powell talks about the attacks.

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Sudden Blasts, Wide DevastationWalls Torn From Buildings; Vehicle Is Impaled on GateBy Glenn K esslerWashington Post Staff WriterWe dne sday, May 14, 2003; Page A01RIYAD H, Saudi Arabia, May 13 -- At first, Elif Berkelrecalled, she heard w ha t sound ed like the click-clack of awheeled suitcase on the sidewalk outside her apartmentbuilding. Someone was coming home from a longweekend, sh e thought. Then the cracking sounds got louder,she said, and she and her husband wondered if a family intheir gated com mu nity was celebrating a wed ding by firingshots into the air.Finally, the Turkish couple decided it must be fireworks,and they flung open the sliding glass door in their livingroom to take a look. S udd enly, they recalled today, theysaw a huge orange fireball that covered the sky above theircompound, Al Hamra, an d they were blown so far back bythe blast that they hit a wall 10 feet away.At almost the same moment about 11:25 Mond ay night similar explosions occurred in two other gated communitiesin the sprawling Saudi Arabian capital, V innell an dJedawal. The sequence of violence, Saudi and U.S. officialssaid, was identical in all three compounds: gunmen clashedwith sentries outside the walls, then reached in and pusheda button that opened the gate. As the intruders keptshooting, at least one vehicle packed with explosivesrushed into the compound, the driver searching for theplace where a bomb would have the most devastatingimpact.In Vinne ll, a housing and training compound operated forth e Saudi Arabian National Guard by V innell Arabia, alocal subsidiary of Fairfax-based V innell Corp., that place

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Terror Cell Had Recent Gun Battle W ith PoliceBy Alan Sipress and Peter FinnWashin gton Post Foreign ServiceWednesday, May 14, 2003; Page A01CAIRO, May 13 - The Islamic militantsbehind the devastating car bombings in threeresidential compounds Monday in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia, were part of an al Qaeda cellwhose members fought a gun battle last weekwith Saudi author ities before escaping arrest,Saudi officials said today.At the time, police raided a suspected hideout,uncovering a weapons cache that included 55hand grenades, 829 pound s of explosives and2,545 bullets of different calibers. The May 6raid took place at a safe house "severalhundred yards from one of the buildings hit"by the triple bom bing, a senior U .S. officialsaid today.The cell was formed in the kingdom after theSept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States,officials said. It is led by Khaled Jehani, w holeft Saudi Arabia whe n he was 18, later foug htin Bosnia and Chechn ya and was based at alQaeda camps in Afgh anistan , the officialsadded. Jehani, 29, assumed a leadershipposition in the cell after the capture lastNovember of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,suspected o f being instrumental in planningthe attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000,the officials said. Al-Nashiri, al Qaeda'sformer director of operations in the PersianGulf, is in U.S. custody.

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FBI Heads to Investigate Saudi BombingBy JOHN J. LUMPKINThe Associated PressWednesday, May 14, 2003; 10:51 AMWASHINGTON - An FBI teamsent to look into the deadlybombings in Riyadh will relyheavily on the work of Saudiauthorities, who hav e in the pasthave limited U.S. access toterrorism investigations.

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f-Ma.!lThis.A.rticleprinter-Friendly VersionSubscribe to . The.. PostFBI Director Robert Muellerdispatched the "assessment team,"consisting of six agents and technicians led by a senior official in thecounterterrorism division, on Tuesday to assist Saudi authorities.

"M y expectation is that we will get full cooperation from the Saudis,"Mueller said during an appearance in Alb any , N.Y .In 1996, Saudi authorities restricted American access after the bombingof the Khobar Towers dormitory that killed 19 U.S. military servicemembers. In the latest bombings, it will be up to the Saudis to secure thescene and ensure no evidence is lost.U.S. lawmakers are demanding that the Saudis offer more cooperationthan they had after previous terrorist attacks. Still, the FBI scaled backinitial plans to send more agents out of concern for Saudi sensitivity to alarge U.S. law enforcement presence, although more agents are likely to

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Bombing May Boost Ties toU.S.Experts Say Attacks Could Be 'Wake-Up Call' onThreat to KingdomBy Michael DobbsWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, May 14, 2003; Page A23By all indications, th e suicide bombings in Riyadh wereplanned as a protest against the U.S. presence in SaudiArabia. But they m ay have the paradoxical effect ofalerting Saudi leaders to the threat posed by the terroristorganization al Qaeda, according to U.S. officials an dpolitical analysts.Bush administration officials said they hope that Mondaynight's attacks on residential compounds will serve as a"wake-up call" to the Saudi government, which has tendedto view the war on terrorism as primarily an American,rather than a Saudi, problem. They noted that the attackswere preceded by specific U.S. warnings that an al Qaedaattack was imminent.How the Saudi government responds will be "critical" toth e future of the special relationship between Washingtonan d the House of Saud, which goes back to a 1945 meetingbetween President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Saudi KingAbdul Aziz, U.S. officials said. For decades, the UnitedStates has looked to Saudi Arabia as a source of stableenergy supplies while acting as the ultimate guarantor ofth e country's national security."Our sense is that [Saudi leaders] recognize we are in thisboat together," said a U.S. official involved in Middle Eastpolicymaking. The official added that the Saudigovernment needs to do more on the "practical and

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WASHINGTON, May 14 Seven months after telling Congress he would do so, George J. Tenet, the directorof central intelligence, has yet to provide the names of agency officials responsible for one of the most glaring ^intelligence mistakes leading up to the attacks of Sept. 1 1 , according to Congressional and agency officials. r" ^ ,

n / r t \ 5 >Soon after the attacks, the mistake emerged, showing that the Central Intelligence Agency had waited 20months before placing on a federal watch list two suspected terrorists who wound up as hijackers.Had the information about the two hijackers been promptly relayed to other agencies, the government mighthave been able to disrupt, limit or possibly even prevent the terrorist attacks, intelligence officials andCongressional investigators said. The agency knew that the two, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhazmi, hadattended a meeting of Al Qaeda in Malaysia in early 2000.

Mr. Tenet told a joint Congressional committee in October that he would tell the panel the names ofcounterterrorism officials responsible for the failure to put the men on the watch list. A spokesman for Mr. Tenetsaid Mr. Tenet had not turned over the names because "the committee knows full well who did what," including"who was handling watch-listing issues at the counterterrorism center."The failure, however, has angered some lawmakers and families of some of the attacks' victims, who havewanted a more specific accounting of intelligence and law enforcement lapses.The Tenet spokesman said the C.I.A.'s inspector general had begun an inquiry into whether any C.I.A. officialsshould be criticized or praised for actions before Sept. 1 1 .The C.I.A., meanwhile, has promoted two top leaders of its unit responsible for tracking Al Qaeda in 2000, whenthe agency mistakenly failed to put the two suspected terrorists on the watch list, officials say.The leaders were promoted even though some people in the intelligence community and in Congress say thecounterterrorism unit they ran bore some responsibility for waiting until August 2001 to put the suspect pair onthe interagency watch list.Mr. Tenet, in Congressional testimony in October, accepted responsibility for the reporting mistake but said noone at his agency had been held personally accountable because "we're in the middle of a war."A C.I.A. official said the investigation by the inspector general began after a joint Congressional committee inDecember recommended one.The New York Times agreed to a C.I.A. request to withhold the names of the two promoted officials becausethey still work undercover in counterterrorism activities. While both are employed by the agency, one was ontemporary assignment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The two declined to be interviewed.The C.I.A. spokesman said it would be "unfair and not correct" to single out these two officials since lower-ranking and more senior officials, including Mr. Tenet, could arguably be cited.Another agency official, however, said that the two officials bore significant operational responsibility for trackingand reporting on the activities of Al Qaeda.

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pass on fo r the watch list "the names of all persons it suspected of being terrorists," according to Mr. Shelby.The cable and guidance are classified, but officials said that, at a minimum, Mr. Midhar met the guidancestandards.Cable traffic inside the agency was high just before the millennium celebration, when there was concern aboutthe threat of terrorist actions around the world.The chief of the bin Laden unit in 2000 wa s promoted after Sept. 11 to head an important C.I.A. station, an dmore recently he was assigned to the F.B.I., where heholds a senior position, officials said. In 2000 there wereabout three dozen employees assigned to the bin Laden unit, an d about 200 agents worldwide were at thedisposal of the unit, according to the C.I.A.The director of operations for the C.I.A.'s Qaeda unit in 2000 ha s since been promoted to the unit's No. 2 post,officials added.A government lawyer who examined the mistake with the watch list said officials at the bin Laden unit werecontrite."They all took responsibility," the lawyer said. "They all said, 'We dropped the ball.'"

2) U.S. Ambassador Says Saudis Didn't Heed Security RequestBy STEVEN R. WEISMAN with DOUGLAS JEHLNew York TimesRIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 14 The United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia charged today that someweeks before the car bombs of Monday night, American intelligence operatives picked up signs of an imminentterrorist attack and urged the Saudi government to improve security at foreign compounds here, but got little orno response.Reflecting what some officials said was increasing American frustration with the Saudi efforts against terrorism,the ambassador, Robert W. Jordan, praised Crown Prince Abdullah an d Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreignminister, for their "sincere" vows of a crackdown on military groups. But he also said that "executing the plan toprovide additional security is another matter, and I think there's some ways to go on that, quite frankly."Th e ambassador's comments, coming two days after three bomb blasts in Riyadh killed 34 people including 8Americans, illustrate the depth of continuing strains between American an d Saudi officials over cooperation infighting terrorism.Even the White House, which ha s tried in recent months to repair relations with the kingdom, said today thatSaudi efforts to combat terrorism remain inadequate, despite some recent improvements."As with many countries around the world, the fact is that Saudi Arabia must deal with the fact that it hasterrorists inside its own country, an d their presence is as much a threat to Saudi Arabia as it is to Americans an dto others who live an d work in Saudi Arabia," the White House spokesman, A ri Fleischer, said today.

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In the days before the Riyadh bombing, Mr. Black was among several Bush administration officials who werevoicing cautious optimism that the American war on terrorism may have marginalized Al Qaeda as a significantthreat."It's no coinciden ce" that n o operations w ere mounted during the American war on Iraq, Mr. Black was quotedas saying in an interview published on May 7 in The W ashington Post. "This w as the big game for them youput up or shut up an d they have failed. It proves that the global war on terrorism has been effective, focuse d andhas got these guys on the run."In its May 1 warning, however, the State Department had said that terrorists "may be in the final stages ofplann ing attacks" on Am erican targets in Saudi Arabia. The officials now say the bombings here on M ondaynight we re carried out by Al Qaeda.The strains between the United States an d Saudi Arabia over terrorism date back to the mid-1990's, withAmerican officials outraged by a lack of Saudi cooperation into investigations of bombings in Riyadh in 1995 andin Dhahran in 1996 that killed a total of two dozen Americans.Even after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Saudi government for monthspublicly refused to acknowledge the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. More recently, however,officials from both countries say the Saudis have been more forthcoming in acknowledging a problem withmilitants w ithin their borders, an d have become more aggressive in arresting terrorist suspects.As evidence of that more aggressive role, Prince Nayef, the Saudi interior m inister, said in February hisgovernment was holding 253 people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, including 90 with proven links. As afurther indication of their commitment to that path, Saudi officials have publicized the May 6 raid on a Qaedasafehouse here that uncovered a large arms cache but failed to capture 19 militants who are still at large.Among those who were sought, and are now suspected of having a major hand in the bombings on Monday, isa young Saudi named Khaled Jehani, who American officials described today as the leader of a Qaeda cell inthe Riyadh area.A Saudi opposition figure, Saad al-Faqih, who heads the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, based inLondon, and who has no ties to Al Qaeda, said in a telephone interview today that support for the terroristorganization was growing in the kingdom, in part because of the emergence of "a new generation of religiousscholars."Among those clerics, Mr. Faqih an d others said, are AN al-Khudeir, Nasser al-Fahd, and Ahmed al-Khalidi, whohave been in hiding since before the American-led war in Iraq but have been issuing religious edicts via theInternet that have urged their followers to resist any crackdown by the Saudi governmen t.

3) U.S. Asked Saudis to Increase SecurityKingdom Failed to Act Quickly in Days Before Bombings, Envoy SaysBy Glenn KesslerWashington Post

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compound, wou ld it have made a difference? I 'm not sure that it would have." Jordan noted that armed guardsdid little to prevent the attack at one site, the compound operated by Vinnell Arabia, a local subsidiary of Fairfax-based Vinnell Corp.

Asked about the ambassador's comments in the television interviews, Saud denied that Saudi Arabia had failedto act on such a request. "In each t ime the Am erican em bassy or any other embassy seeks the intensification ofsecurity measures, the government fulfills this request," Saud said.John Burgess, spokesman fo r the U.S. Embassy, said Saudi Arabia briefly enhanced security at somecompounds after the request, bu t then let the matter drop. "The Saudis don't have much staying power," hesaid. "They don't stiff us on it. They just didn't do a very good job."Burgess said the request was made at "very high levels" of the Interior Ministry. A ministry official said bothcountries often make requests for cooperation, but he suggested it would have been impossible to supplysecurity people to all the compounds covered by the U.S. Embassy request.One U.S. official here said part of the problem is that Saudi Arabia does not have a well-functioning government."It has a First World country infrastructure, but it's a Third World country," he said. "You go two people down inany agency and it's bureaucratic inertia. It's no t malicious, necessarily.""We're frustrated with where we are," a senior U.S. official said, but there is "not a sense of blame or finger-pointing. It is a sense of, what do we do next to prevent something like this from happening again?"Saud said the terrorists "will regret what they have done, because they have turned this country into on e fistaimed at putting an end to this heinous wound in the body of this nation so that it won't return."Noting that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were Saudi, Saud said itwa s fate that resulted in 15 attacking the city this week. He remarked that some A me ricans have blamed SaudiArabia for the Sept. 11 terror strikes. "Certainly it goes to the heart of the arguments. No one would accuse us ofbeing responsible for attacking our country," he said.Staff wr iter Ka ren DeYoung in Washington a nd correspondent Peter Finn in Berlin contr ibuted to this report.

4) Did the Saudis Do Enough to Prevent Attack?

By Michael Isikoff and Mark HosenballNewsweek Web ExclusiveIn the two wee ks before this week's terro rist attacks in Riyadh, senior Sau di officials re bu ffed repeated U.S.requests to beef up security at residential com pounds that house Am erican cit izens and other westerners,

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U.S. intelligence officials believe that the perpetrators are an Al Qaeda-linked group headed by Khaled Jehani, a29-year-old Saudi militant who, like many of the 9-11 hijackers, is a graduate of the camps in Afghanistan. Thereis still intense debate over just how large the Qaeda presence is in Saudi Arabia. (Privately, officials haveestimated it is 200 to 300 but "we're going to have to take a hard look at that number now," one official says.)But at the very least, State Department off icials are hoping that the attacks could lead to a shake-up within theInterior Ministry and even Nayef's resignation~a development that one Saudi opposition leader said today islong overdue."He's had failure after failure-he's proven useless," said AN Ahmed, director of the Saudi Institute, aWashington-based group that is critical of the Saudi government. "He spends most of his time arresting peoplefor their ideas, not fighting terrorism."ANOTHER FRUSTRATING SEARCHEver since the war on Iraq ended, there ha s been considerable attention to the often frustrating search by theU.S. military for chemical and biological weapons--the purported primary reason we invaded the country in thefirst place. There has been far less attention to the hunt for terrorists which, during Secretary of State Powell'sno w famous speech to the United Nations last February, was the other reason advanced fo r getting rid ofSaddam Hussein.As it turns out, the results so far are equally inconclusive. So far, for example, there have been no signs of AbuMusab Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist who ran an Al Qaeda-a ffil iated group that Powell ha d asserted ha dreceived safe haven in Iraq. But privately, Pentagon officials have been touting the arrest of at least one allegedZarqawi associate, Abu Muaz. Sources says Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz got excited when helearned recently of Muaz's apprehension near Baghdad, and at least one official described him as a "high level"and "significant" f igure in Zarqawi's network.But as with virtually all intelligence issues when it comes to Iraq, there is considerable dispute within the U.S.government about Muaz. He is not wanted by the FBI for any crimes, and U.S.officials are unclear what terroristacts, if any, he can be linked to. The CIA attaches much less significance to his arrest, describing mysteriousMuaz as more a "midlevel operative' in the Zarqawi network.And to date, even U.S. military officials acknowledge, he's the only possible Al Qaeda terrorist who has beenlocated anywhere in Iraq.

5) Where Next for al-Qaeda?Tuesday's suicide strikes in Saudi Arabia may be the start of a campaign to hit U.S. targets in the Arab worldBy TONY KARON

TIME MagazineThe war in Iraq was a major challenge to al-Qaeda, whose propaganda had always maintained that theU.S.lacked the stomach for a fight, and whose leader's audiotaped call fo r retaliation for the U.S. invasion wentlargely unheeded. But lest anyone count Osama bin Laden's movement out of the post-Saddam Middle Eastequation, it struck back to devastating effect in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday: Some 29 people, including at least

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Th e Saudi bombings are a reminder that al-Qaeda is very much alive after 18 months of the war on terror. Bu twhile an occasional attempt to mount a spectacular attack on the U.S. mainland remains a real danger, changedcircumstances and opportunities may tempt the network to focus its efforts in the Arab territories whose"liberation" from U.S. influence remains one of the movem ent's foun ding objectives.

6) U.S. Is Investigating Al-Qaeda Link In IranBy John W alcottPhiladelphia InquirerWASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating whethe r senior al-Qaeda leaders hiding in Iranmay have helped to plan or coordinate the te rrorist bombings that killed 34 people, including eight Americans,late Monday in Saudi Arabia.Intelligence officials said several al-Qaeda leaders, including Saif al-Adel, who is wante d in connection with the1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and who might now be the group's third-ranking official, andOsama bin Laden's son Saad had found refuge in Iran, where they remain active.National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, speaking to fore ign journalists in Wa shington yesterday, made nomention of a possible link between al-Qaeda mem bers in Iran and the Saudi bombings but said: "W e areconcerned about al-Qaeda operating in Iran."Th e Iranian government has expelled more than 500 lowe r-ranking al-Qaeda m embe rs and denies harboringany of the group's senior leaders. Th e U.S. officials, who all spoke on condition of anonymity, said there w asevidence that members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard were sheltering Adel, the younger bin Laden, other al-Qaeda leaders, and some other members of bin Laden's family.The officials e mphasized that no hard evidence had been fou nd that al-Qaeda fugitives in Iran had a hand in theSaudi bombings. The suspicions have given a new urgency to United Nations-sponsored talks between WhiteHouse aide Zalmay Khalilzad and Iranian officials in Geneva.

In the talks, senior administration officials said, the United States is seeking an end to Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, promises that Tehran won't try to export its Islamic revolution to Iraq, an end to Iraniansupport for other groups such as Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, and the return of fugitive m embers of Ansar alIslam, a small group with al-Qaeda ties that was crushed last month by U.S. and Kurdish forces in Iraq.Among other things, the officials said, Iran has asked the United States to disarm and disband the MujahedeenKhalq, an Iranian rebel group that was based in Iraq and backed by Saddam Hussein. That effort, a senior U.S.official said yesterday , has been complicated by legal questions, some of them about how to deal with membersof the group who are U.S. citizens.If the CIA or othe r intelligence agencies find evidence confirming suspicions that the Saudi bombings wereplanned or supported from Iran, one senior U.S. official warned, the conve rsation with Iran "could become aconfrontation."Asked wh at the adm inistration's options w ould be in that case, an other se nior official concede d that trying to

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Saudi officials said suspected al-Qaeda mem bers arrested before the bombings ha d told interrogators thatJehani's group was planning to initiate a major o peration in Saudi Arabia during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, bu tthat the invasion cam e sooner than they expected. AI-Qaeda's targets, the suspects reportedly said, includedthe Saudi royal family as well as Americans and other Westerners.Several times recently, on e U.S. official said, Osama bin Laden expressed frustration to his l ieutenants in Iranthat al-Qaeda ha d struck no significant blow s as the United States invaded Iraq. "The fact that his frustrationwas directed towa rd those in Iran is interesting," one official said.

7) New York Gets $200 Million for Defense Against Terror

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZNew York TimesWASHINGTON, May 14 The Bush administration announced today that it planned to provide New Yo rk alittle more than $200 million in grants to help it defend itself against terrorist attack.The money was part of a $700 mill ion aid package that Congress and President Bush a pproved last month tohelp densely populated cities considered most vulnerable to terrorist attack.It was unclear until today ho w much money New Yo rk wou ld receive as part of the package. Th e money is beingdisbursed by the Department of Homeland Security.Th e $700 million pot was created after New Yo rk officials complained that the city, a past target for terrorists,wa s being shortchanged becau se Was hington ha d been apportioning security aid to cities by using a formulathat did not take into account vulnerabilities.Th e aid package comes as New Yo rk City spends about $13.5 million a week beefing up security at airports,subway stations, bu s terminals and other landmarks in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.Th e package was praised by officials in the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who have arguedthat the city should receive at least $175 million, or about 25 percent of the entire $700 million pot of money.Of the $700 million in grants announced today, about $500 million will be divided among 29 cities to use as theyse e fit. Those include New York City ($125 million), Washington ($42.4 million), Chicago ($29.9 million) Houston($23.7 million), Los Ang eles ($18.9 million) and San Francisco ($18.6 million), according to the administration.The Bu sh administration ha s also se t aside about $75 million fo r vulnerable ports and $65 million to beef upsecurity fo r mass transit systems across the nation.Roughly $30 million has been set aside to help officials in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan regionprepare for any radiological disaster, according to federal o fficials.

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controversial system no w being developed to hunt terrorists plotting attacks on the U.S. Change its name,anyway.In a report to Congress expected May 20 and now being circulated to top Defense Department brass fo rcomment, the Total Information Awareness program headed by c ontroversial ex-Navy Ad miral John Poindexteris slated to be re-named with the more narrowly-focused moniker Terrorist Information Awareness, sources inand outside the Pentagon tell TIME. Pentagon spokespeople declined comment on the plan or on what, if any,substantive changes might accompany a possible name-change.In a recent congressional hearing, Tony Tether, head of the Pentagon agency that houses the program, saidTIA would be operated with the expectation that "the American public and their elected officia ls must haveconfidence that their liberties w ill not be violated before they would accept this kind of techno logy."Critics have said the program, as described by Poindexter at various points since its inception, could promoteBig Brother-like government snooping on ordinary Americans as much as on terror suspects."W e must become much more efficient an d more clever in the ways we find ne w sources of data, mineinformation fro m the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge,and create actionable options," Poindexter said last year. Poindexter has been controversial for his role in theReagan administration Iran-Contra scandal, wh ich led to a 1990 conviction for providing false information toCongress, though that verdict was ultimately overturned in 1992.

9) Budget Shortfall Could Prompt Cutbacks in Airport ScreenersBy Stephen BarrWashington Post

Eight months into fiscal 2003, the Tran sportation Se curity Administration faces a budget s hortfall, doesn't knowhow big it will be and hopes to wrap up its spending plan in the next week or two.James M. Loy, the head of the TS A, has been revising his spending blueprint every 60 days for much of thepast year. He has faced unexpected s tart-up costs, large outlays for contractors and a Capitol Hill budgetimpasse that delayed this year's appropriations.Faced with a possible deficit of $ 500 million this year, Loy has been taking steps to cut costs. P artly because ofthe budget constraints and partly because of persistent criticism about the size of the a gency's w orkfo rce fromRep. Harold Rogers (R -Ky.), the agency is cutting back on screeners."Every t ime we came to a fork in the road, we took the se curity path. That was the right thing. Now I'm insistingthat we have to be as conscious of efficiency and effectiveness and stewardship of the taxpayer dollar," Loysaid in a recent interview.According to a March 31 tally, the agency has 55,600 passenger and baggage screeners. Loy plans to cut 3,000jobs by May 31 and another 3,000 by Sept. 30. The reductions should save the agency about $ 288 million in

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If layoffs are required, the TSA plans to take into account the skills and job experience of employees rather thanthe time they have put in with the agency, Loy said. "We will hold on to the very best screeners we have," hesaid. "This is not last in, first out."But a union official questioned whether Loy has the leeway to set up layoff rules, because Congress , in creatingthe agency, suggested it use the Federal Aviation Administration as a model for pay a nd perform ance systems."If it comes to layof fs, we think the law tells them to use FAA or Transportation Department procedures and notmake up their own," Peter Winch of the American Federation of Government Em ployees said.Using FA A procedures would ensure fair treatment and protect veterans from layoffs, he said."They have attracted a good workforce ... and I think they are in danger of blowing th e whole thing," Winchsaid.Winch has been traveling a cross the country trying to orga nize screeners at the nation's 31 largest airports,even though screeners do not have the right to join unions. AFGE has filed petitions with the Federal LaborRelations Authority to represent more than 6,000 s creeners and has filed a lawsuit to overturn a ban o n unionsat the TSA.The TSA's efforts to sort out its budget comes at a sensitive time because co ngressional hearings are underwayon f iscal 2004 appropriations. Yesterday, Loy testified bef ore the Senate App ropriations subcom mittee thatoversees TS A spending, and Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) quickly pointed out that he was troubled at theprospect of sorting out the TSA's 2004 funding request when he had not seen a final 2003 spending plan.Under TSA's staff changes, 24 0 airports would lose screeners and 148 would ge t more; workf orce levels wouldbe unchanged at 33 airports.Sen. Thad Co chran (R-Miss.) asked Loy yesterday how airports could appeal the TSA's decision to cut screenerjobs. Loy said the agency has asked its airport security directors to w ork with local authorit ies to com e up withthe right staff ing levels."W e are after the right data," Lo y said.

10) Plan to Hike Security at LAX FaultedRand says costly project backed by Hahn would increase vulnerability, not lessen it. Mayor's off ice disputesfindings.

By Jennifer OldhamLos Angeles TimesA $9.6-billion modernization plan billed by Mayor James K. Hahn as a way to make Los A ngeles InternationalAirport more secure would in fact make passengers a nd airport personnel more vulnerable to terrorist attackswith small luggage bombs, shoulder-fired missiles or chemical, biological and nuclear weapo ns, according to the


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A18 F R I D A Y , M A T 16, ?oo3 DM VA WAR AGAINST TEMKHIISMBearing Attack, Kenya Searches for A l QaedafcOBI, Maythat terrorists could be1jan attack in Kenya in thecoming days spurred law enforce-

ij t officials to launch a nation-'J search today for a leading S U 9 -f--.m the 1998 U.S.embassybombings, while Britain suspendedSights to and from the country andWestern embassies increased securi-ty . *("" Officers in Kenya's anti-terrorism\t saidFazul Abdullah Moham-m e d ^ a Comoros islander who iswanted b y the FBI on murder charg-es fo|-bis alleged rote in the embassy/ attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Sa-/ laam, Tanzania, reportedly has re-/ turned to Kenya from neighboring( Somalia. T he * **~ J

killed m ore than 240 people.Mohammed, who intelligence of-ficials say is a member of al Qaedaw ho trained in Afghanistan withOsama bin Laden, was seen in Mog-adishu, the Somali capital, after theNov. 28bombingof the Paradise Ho-tel in the Kenyan port of Momba-saan operation in which he is alsoa suspect Now Kenyan officials saythey believe he is in the country an dplanning another attack."He is at large," said DouglasKaunda, spokesmanfor the NationalM inistry of Security. "After thisweek's attacks in Saudi Arabia, w e

don't want to take an y chances. A f lo f this is hutting Kenya too much.W e want it to end."Fears of a third major al Qaeda-linked attack in Kenya in five yearswere heightened with the State De-partment warning after this week'striple suicide bombings fa Riyadh."The U.S. government ha s receivedindications o f terrorist threats in theregion aimed at American and West-ern interests, including civil avia-tion. The government of Kenyamight no t be able to prevent such at-tacks," the warning said, addingthat the State Department "recom-

mends Americans defer all nones-sential travel to Kenya at this time."T he Thanksgiving Day bombingin Mombasa, which killed 11 Ken-out within minutes oC an unsuc?ressful attem pt to shoot down an Is-raeli airiiner using two shoulder-launched missiles. Since then, morethan 500 Kenyan security officialshave undergo ne specialized trainin gin the United States, and the StateDepartment's O f f i c e of DiplomaticSecurity has given Kenya $800,000worth of airport security equ ipmentA Western diplomat here, w ho

Suspectasked no t to b e identified, cautionedthat Kenya's efforts to improve secu-rity w ere being undercut by the per-vasive poverty that has left thiscountry's police force withoutun-

In London, Britain's Transporta-tion Department said that "thethreat level to U.K.crvfl aviation in-

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