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| Al Qaeda Arm in Pakistan Is Tied To 12 Years of Plots and Attacks |
| 2004-08-06 |
| Here's the start of the article, you have to be subscriber for the full piece. From WSJ today: By ZAHID HUSSAIN, JAMES HOOKWAY, YAROSLAV TROFIMOV and JAY SOLOMON Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL August 6, 2004; Page A1 Recent arrests and a spate of intelligence tie many of the past decade's major terrorist incidents -- and some recently interrupted plots -- to a single, clannish al Qaeda branch set up by 9/11 architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The group includes one Mohammed nephew, Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and another, Musaad Aruchi, who masterminded attacks in Pakistan. In addition, Mr. Mohammed's tribal allies from Pakistan have been linked to other attacks and plots in Africa, Southeast Asia, the U.K. and the U.S. Nephew Ammar al-Baluchi helped facilitate travel and financing for senior al Qaeda operative Riduan Isamuddin to carry out terrorist attacks in Southeast Asia. Mr. Riduan's agents were behind the October 2002 bombing on the Indonesian island of Bali that killed more than 200 people. Terrorism experts say relatives and close associates of Mr. Mohammed -- known as KSM in the intelligence community -- also have taken leading roles in attacks inside Pakistan in recent months and have cooperated with senior al Qaeda agents to plan recent operations from New York to London to Johannesburg. Among their plots, investigators say: attacking financial institutions in the U.S. and London's Heathrow Airport. Also this week, files on a computer belonging to an al Qaeda operative linked to Mr. Mohammed led British authorities to arrest Abu Moussa al-Hindi, a U.K. citizen suspected of involvement in reconnaissance of possible terrorism targets. Pakistani officials haven't indicated whether other members of Mr. Mohammed's family or wider clan are believed to be still active in plotting terrorist attacks. They also didn't specify what other actions might be taken to ward off any future plots from this group. |
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