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Imad Yarkas admits knowing Zougam
Spain's leading Al-Qaeda detainee, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, admitted Thursday to know one of the Moroccans arrested in connection with the March 11 Madrid bombings, local media reported Thursday.
We figured as much. Yarkas was the big cheese of al-Qaeda in continental Europe pre-9/11, the only guy who was cool enough to talk one-on-one with Mohammed Atef.

Abu Dahdah claimed to know Jamal Zougam, one of the three Moroccans arrested in connection with Madrid's deadly bombings, because he had been a client to the fruit shop and the telephone-box business owned by Zougam in Madrid's Lavapies neighborhood, the report quoted Spanish judicial sources as saying.
Abu Dahdah, of course, is Yarkas's nom de guerre.

Abu Dahdah also said he had never established relations with Zougam nor was familiar with his ideology.
"No, certainly not lil old me!"

Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-03-19
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=28542