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Original Post Date: 2001-09-28 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 9/28/2001 8:27:55 AM
USA Thwarts at least two more terrorist attacks
By John Solomon
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001; 6:53 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON ““ The government’s global manhunt has thwarted two terrorist
attacks since Sept. 11 and gathered evidence suggesting collaborators were in
various stages of planning on several other plots to harm U.S. interests here
and abroad, officials said Thursday.
Evidence seized in raids in the United States and in Europe included plans or
materials for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Paris and an attack with
explosives on a military site in Brussels, Belgium, the officials said.
The officials, who work in law enforcement and intelligence, spoke only on
condition of anonymity. They said about two dozen arrests have been made
across Europe of people suspected of being involved in the planning of those
attacks.
The arrests have resulted from a global manhunt led by the FBI and aided by
CIA intelligence that has produced dozens of raids and searches in the last
two weeks.
Information about the overseas attacks first emerged this summer, well before
the Sept. 11 hijackings, when authorities captured an alleged associate of
Osama bin Laden and he began cooperating, officials said.
The alleged bin Laden associate, Djamel Begal, provided overseas authorities
with information about possible targets and the names of others who might be
involved, officials said.
A senior government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S.
intelligence urged its European counterparts to begin rounding up suspects
before Sept. 11.
Spanish Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy said authorities had been watching
several of the collaborators for several months but lacked sufficient
evidence to move in on them.
After the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, European police
moved rapidly to capture as many of the alleged planners as possible.
They include about two dozen people arrested or detained in Spain, France,
Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium. Several other suspected collaborators
remain at large, the officials said.
Since the first wave of arrests, authorities have begun to make links between
collaborators in different countries.
“We contacted Belgium and said, ‘Hey, the guy you arrested was in Spain on
such and such a date and met with these guys,” Madrid Police Chief Juan
Cotino explained. “That’s how the link emerged.”
Court records suggest three men arrested during a raid at a Detroit apartment
earlier this month also had some information about the attack on Belgium.
Authorities have evidence the attack targeted a NATO installation and an
American diplomat in Brussels, the officials said.
The thwarted attacks on Paris and Belgium illustrate the current reality
facing U.S. authorities “ that bin Laden-backed terrorist intended to inflict
far more damage on U.S. interests in the coming months.
FBI agents have gathered evidence and testimony “ some sketchy, some detailed
“ suggesting several Middle Eastern men were in various stages of planning,
training or exploring targets for additional attacks on U.S. soil.
Law enforcement and government officials caution that some evidence about the
future plots is circumstantial at best, but it nonetheless compelled
authorities to issue a series of warning in recent days, including that:
“Crop-dusters might be used to spray chemical or biological agents.
“Tanker trucks loaded with lethal poisons could be commandeered.
“U.S. power plants and water supplies could be in danger.
One official said writings and literature seized in some raids suggested the
terrorists appeared to have a motive beyond mass casualties “ paralyzing the
U.S economy.
The Sept. 11 attacks are now seen as part of rapidly expanding terrorist
activity among anti-American groups that have been working together loosely
in the Middle East and Europe “ with key operatives in the United States. The
U.S. government has repeatedly identified bin Laden as the mastermind.
In secret testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee back in
February, CIA Director George Tenet detailed numerous recent attacks that had
been thwarted, officials said.
Before he testified in closed session, Tenet hinted at the scope of the
attack plans. “We and our allies have scored some important successes against
terrorist groups and their plans,” he said.
A senior intelligence official said scores of terrorist activities “ from
meetings to bombings “ were thwarted or disrupted over the last few years
without public notice. One that has been public was a foiled plan to bomb the
Los Angeles Airport during the millennium celebrations.
In most cases, terrorist were simply intercepted at locations here and abroad
and stopped on immigration technicalities before they could carry out plans
that had been intercepted by U.S. or allied intelligence, the official said.
“There have been in recent years scores of terrorist attacks thwarted or
pre-empted, some long before someone get close to lighting the fuse,” the
official said.
The official declined to give specifics, citing a desire to keep terrorists
from knowing how the United States learned of the activities.
(194)Â Copyright 2001 The Associated Press