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3) Distorted Intelligence?By Michael Isikoff and Mark HosenballNewsweekSecret German records cast doubt on the Saddam-AI Qaeda connection. Plus, why Qatar isfooting the legal bills for an 'enemy combatant'June 25 Hundreds of pages of confidential German law-enforcement records raise newquestions about the Bush administration's core evidence purporting to show solid links betweenOsama bin Laden's terror network and Saddam Hussein's regime.

THE VOLUMINOUS GER MAN records, obtained by NEWSW EEK, seem to undercut highlytouted administration claims that Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, a hardened Jordanian terrorist whoonce received medical treatment in Baghdad, was a key player in Al Qaeda.In fact, the secret German records compiled during interrogations with a captured Zarqaw iassociatesuggest that theshadowy-Z-arqawj headed his own terrorist group, called Al Tawhid,with its ow n goals and mayeven have been a jealqus rival of Al Qaeda.The captured associate^Shadi Abdallah, whqjis now on trial in Germany, told hisinterrogators last year that ZafTjassi tjT^wjd-efganization was one of several Islamist groupsthat acted "in opposition" to bin Laden's Al Qaeda. At one point, Abdallah described ho w Zarqawieven vetoed the idea of splitting cha rity funds co llected in Germany between Al Tawhid and AlQaeda.While the internal machinations between Al Tawhid and Al Qaeda may seem obscure, theycut to the heart of one of the mos t politically sens itive issues in Washington at the moment:whether the Bush White House exaggerated and distorted U.S. intelligence to justify the war onIraq. Much of the debate revolves around claims that Saddam had large stockpiles of chemicaland biological weaponsstockpiles that so far have not been found. But an equally fierce debatehas been taking place behind the scenes about the handling of sketchy, and at times,contradictory evidence relating to Saddam's supposed connections with Al Qaeda. Zarqawi wasat the center of those claims. In a Cincinnati speech delivered Oct. 7, on the eve of acongressional vote authorizing him to wage war on Iraq, President Bush asserted that "Iraq andAl Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade." H is chief example w as that "onevery senior Al Qaeda leader" had "received medical treatment in Baghdad"an obviousreference to Zarqawi, who had his leg amputated there in 2002.Zarqawi received even more prominence in secretary of State Colin Pow ell's Feb. 5presentation to the United Nations Security Council. Inthat address, Powell described Zarqawi as"an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants." During hisstay in Baghdad, Powell claimed that "nearly two dozen...al Qaeda affiliates" converged on theIraqi capital and "established a base of operations there."But the German interrogations of Shadi Abdallah present a more com plex and somewhatdifferent picture of Zarqawi's role in international terrorism. According to Abdullah, Zarqaw i's AlTaw hid group focus es on installing an Islamic regime in Jordan and killing Jews. And although AlTaw hid maintained its own training camp near Herat, Afghanistan , Zarqaw i competed w ith binLaden for trainees and members, Abdallah claimed.

A Jordanian native who migrated to Europe in the mid 1990s and became involved in militantIslamic activities in an effort to escape personal problems stemming from his acknowledged druguse and homos exuality. Shadi Abdallah is now on trial in Duesseldorf, Germany on charges ofplotting w ith Zarqawi and other members of an alleged Al Tawhid cell in Germany to attackJewish or Israeli targets inside Germany. Abdallah could get ten years if convicted on thecharges, but is believed to have become a key German government informant andwitnessagainst other Al Tawhid operatives who will be tried later.Transcripts of Abdallah's interrogations over several months last year by investigators fro mGermany's Federal Criminal Police are perhaps the mos t important hard evidence collected by


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5) Saudi Arabia Arrests a Suspect in the Riyadh Bom bingsBy DOUGLAS JEHLNew York TimesWASHINGTON, June 26 S audi Arabia has arrested a senior figure in Al Qaeda who isbelieved to have played a crucial role in planning and carrying out the May bombings in Riyadhthat killed 34 people, including 8 Americans. The same man was thought to be planning furtheroperations against American targets^ senipr_Amer|cani and Saudj .government officials said today.The arrest of the suspectfAli Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi,aJ^> known as Abu Bakr al-Azdi, was described by thVofficials as a major step. He was_pfhdps the most senior Qaedaofficial in Saudi Arabia, the olflctalb bdid, and had ctOgeTiriks to other Qaeda leaders, includingSaif al-Adel, a fugitive w ho is regarded as Al Qaeda's security chief.Mr. Ghamdi had been named by Saudi officials as the prime suspect in the May bom bings. Hisname and picture w ere also included am ong those of the 19 me n sought in connection with anarms cache that was seized in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, seve ral days before the attack.A senior Saudi official said tonight that Mr. Ghamdi surrendered this mo rning to the Saudiauthorities in Jidda, a port city on the Red Sea. The official described Mr. Ghamdi as "one of AlQaeda's top operatives in Saudi Arabia" and said he had been the subject o f an intense manhuntfo r weeks."This is a significant development," the senior Saudi official said.The Ame rican officials did not disclose the details of future operations that Mr . Ghamdi wasthought to have been planning but said they w ere to have taken place both inside and outside ofSaudi Arabia.At least 11 suspects w ere arrested last month inconnection with the bombings on May 12 ofthree housing compounds in Riyadh, according to Saudi officials. Some Saudi new spapers hadreported that those arrested at that time included Mr. Ghamdi. But today's accounts by theAmerican officials we re the m ost authoritative indication that Mr. Ghamdi was now in custody.Some of the Ame ricans who died in the attacks worke d for de fense firms that w ere part of aUnited States military program that provides training to the Saudi National Guard, and the UnitedStates Embassy in Riyadh has since warned that m ore attacks on American targets in thekingdom could becoming.Prince N ayef, the Saudi interior minister, would not confirm last month w hether M r. Ghamdi hadbeen arrested, but he said a full report w ould be released whe never the investigation wasconcluded.An Ame rican government official described Mr. Ghamdi as being 30 years old and said he hadrisen swiftly in the Qaeda ranks in the last year. He had fled Afghanistan's Tora B ora re gion in thelate fall of 2001, said the official, just before A merican bombing attacks there began.A Saudi newspaper, Al Watan, has reported that Mr. Ghamdi dropped out of college to join themujahedeen, or holy w arriors , and had made several trips to Afghanistan.A letter circulating on the Internet that has been attributed to Mr. Ghamdi exhorts the faithful tojoin the holy war against the W est because the struggle had not reache d its peak. But an elder inhis family, 13 of whose m embers have been accused of taking part in terrorist attacks, has deniedto the Beirut-based Arabic daily Al Hayat that the letter was written by Mr. Ghamdi.


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CNN.com - Bush might announce end to Iraqi combat, sources say - Apr. 25, 2003 Page 1 of 4

d PRINTTHISiwO111 Powered byBush m ight announce end to Iraqi combat,sources sayFirst American ground forces prepare to go homeWASHINGTON (CNN) -President Bush might declare an end to combat in Iraq next w eek, senior W hiteHouse officials told CNN on Friday. But the president will not declare the war over, the officials said.Defense Secretary D onald Ru msfeld said Friday that it is possible that an end will never be declared."I would guess there will be an end," Ru m sfeld said. "C an I tell you for su re? No. . . . This isn't WorldWar I or World War II, that starts and then ends. Take Afghanistan. We've moved from majormilitary activities to a point w here at the present time, the v ast majority of the co untry is in astabilization security m ode."An announcement from Bus h could come during his visit T hursday an d Friday to the aircraft carrierUSS Abraham L incoln, returning from the Persian Gulf region.Although fighting has wou nd down througho ut Iraq, Pentagon officials said Friday that there are still"pockets" of resistance."This mo rning, a 20- to 30-man Iraqi param ilitary force attacked a coalition patrol northw est ofMosul," said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Coalition forces killedseveral of the attackers and destroyed two of the so-called technical vehicles, the trucks with themachine guns on them."Also, he said, "a two-man enemy paramilitary element was engaged in south Baghdad; one waskilled, one w as captured."Rumsfeld pointed to the continued fighting wh en he was asked if the Un ited States will choose not todeclare a formal end to the war in order to avoid the responsibilities the Geneva Con ventions imposeon a postwar occupying power."There's not an attempt to avoid anything except getting more people killed," he replied, "and anattempt to try to get that coun try and those people in a process that'll produce a free Iraqigovernment."

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Terror Suspect Flown Out of PakistanBy RIAZ K HA N Associated Press W riterPESHA WA R, Pakistan (AP) - A suspected longtime aide to Osam a binLaden has been handed over to Am erican authorities and flown out ofPakistan, uPaldstafli official said M onday." )Adil Al-Jazeeri was Blindfolded with his hand s tied behind his backwhile he was takenio an American plane in Peshawar late Sund ay in

[ o f anonymity.The official said he believed the al-Qaida suspect was flown to Bagram,an Am erican forces base in neighboring Afg hanistan.Pakistan officials believe Al-Jazeeri, arrested in Pakistan last month , is aranking member of bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network.

/"->] "He was interrogated here. He is among the important people of al-/ Qaida. Useful information can be obtained from him during further/ investigation," theofficial said.Al-Jazeeri, an Algerian nationa l, was arrested in the upsca le residentialdistrict of Hayatabad in Peshawar, wh ich bordersAfgh anistan.Another al-Qaida suspect, Abu Naseem of Tunisia, ajso was arrestednear Peshawar the same dav-Al-Jazeeri was caught:Neither Al-Jazeeri nor Abu Naseem appear on the American FBI's MostWanted Terrorists list.Nearly 500 al-Qaida suspects have been arrested in Pakistan and most ofthem have been hand ed over to the U nited States.Pakistan is a key U.S.ally in the war against terrorism.Those captured include senior al-Qaida suspects, such as Khalid Shaikh

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AssociatedPressSuspected al-QaidaMembers ArrestedBy RIAZ KH AN Associated Press W riterPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Two suspected al-Qaida members onefrom Algeria and the other from Saudi Arabia were arrestedWednesday in northw estern Pakistan, intelligence sources said.The one captive, identified as Adil Al-Jazeeri, said to have been alongtime companion of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, wasarrested at a public sw imming pool in the affluent Hayatabadneighborhood of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's North West FrontierProvince.The second man , identified as Abu Naseem, a Saudi Arabian national,was arrested soon afterward outside the Katcha Ghauri Afghan refugeecamp on the western edge of Peshawar, the intelligence sources said oncustomary condition of anonymity.The raids were conducted by Pakistani security officials. It wasn'timmediately clear if the two men were in Pakistani cu stody or handedover to U.S. officials.Sources said the two men were picked up after th e interrogation of threeAfghans, who were arrested a day earlier outside a bank in Peshawar.The three men led them to al-Jazeeri.Neither al-Jazeeri nor Abu Naseem appear on the American FBI's M ostWanted Terrorists list.

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I Al-Qaeda Seeks Canadian Operatives; To get around tighter U.S. security, Osama Bin Laden istrying to recruit disaffected Muslims north of the borderBy ELAINE SHANNONTIME Magazine

It stands to reason that Canadians who grew up 200 miles from Detroit are a better bet to navigate America'santi-terror tripwires than, say, native-born Kuwaitis or Yemenis. That's why the FBI and CIA were so concernedabout Abdulrahman Mansour Jabarah, 24, an al-Qaeda suspect killed onJuly 3 by Saudi authorities in a firelightnear the Jordanian border. Jabarah is the older brother of Mohammed "Sammy" Jabarah, who is currently inU.S custody and has, according to U.S. officials, admitted involvement in a series of al-Qaeda plots in SoutheastAsia. What marks the Jabarah brothers as somewhat unique among al-Qaeda operatives is their background asCanadians their Iraqi father and Kuwaiti mother had emigrated to St. Catherines, Ontario, about 200 milesnorth of Detroit, in 1994. The boys are believed to have traveled to Pakistan and joined Al Qaeda in the late1990s, and despite his relative youth, one U.S. official describes the brother killed last week as "a nasty, nastyman."The FBI believes that al-Qaeda recruiters are aggressively enrolling youths like the Jabarahs, with U.S.,Canadian or Western European passports and good command of the English language and the North Americaninterior. While the network had always tried to recruit people with U.S. and other Western passports, FBIcounter-terrorism chief Larry Mefford recently revealed that al-Qaeda was "refocusing its efforts" to sign ondisaffected Americans, green-card holders and Muslims who had spent time in the U.S. as students or visitorswho had a good command of English and a working knowledge of American society an d culture. This effortcomes in response to the Bush administration's tightening up the supply of visas available to would-be visitorsfrom nations such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, Pakistan, Egypt and Southeast Asian countries where al-Qaeda has a strong presence. Recruits with greater access to and knowledge of the U.S. have a better chanceof navigating some of the traps set by U.S. an d Canadian authorities to catch terrorists coming from abroad.But some of the other Qaeda operatives killed or captured by the Saudis last week were bigger fish than theJabarahs, and their demise could hobble some current terror plots. U.S. officials believe some may have evenbeen plotting attacks on the American mainland.Turki Nasser al-Dandani, the commander of the terror cell that mounted the May 12 suicide truck bombings, wa scornered by Saudi police July 3 in the town of Sowair, near the border with Jordan.- He blew himself up with ahand grenade rather than being taken alive. U.S. intelligence reports describe him a s head of Persian Gulfoperations for al-Qaeda, responsible for land an d maritime attacks on U.S. an d Western interests throughout theregion. His knowledge of al-Qaeda plans could extend to schemes inAsia, Europe and the U.S., officials say.Al-Dandani had fought against U.S. forces inside Afghanistan until the fall of the Taliban. He was close to KhalidSheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia,officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the US S Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani tookover the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured inseparate incidents, say U.S.officials.But the highest ranking Al Qaeda figure taken down in the Saudi offensive is Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, aka "Abu Bakr," al-Qaeda field commander for Saudi Arabia an d al-Dandani's boss. Al-Ghamdisurrendered June 26 in exchange for his wife's freedom.IsTofficials are hopingfor an intelligence windfall if al-Ghamdi talks^He had trained at Bin Laden's al-Farouq~andfought with the al-Uaeda leader at I ora Bora. EScapingffne U.S. bombardment, he returned to hisnative Saudi Arabia and reported to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, plotting "second wave" attacks onAmericansand their allies until Mohammed's arrest in Pakistan last March. As more and more al-Qaeda field leaders wererounded up, al-Ghamdi rose in the ranks, safely hiding in Saudi Arabia until the May 12 attacks galvanized the

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