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To: Moominoid who wrote (8682)	9/11/2001 10:40:34 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Wonder if this had anything to do with today's terror? Seems like maybe we were getting close to bin Laden: washingtonpost.com. Special to The Washington Post Wednesday, August 29, 2001; Page A18 NEW YORK, Aug. 28 -- A Manhattan federal grand jury has indicted an Algerian man on charges of serving as the link between alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and another Algerian convicted of trying to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. The indictment, issued Monday, accuses 37-year-old Abu Doha of meeting with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998 to set up a cooperative relationship between bin Laden's terrorist network, Al Qaeda, and a group of terrorists funded by Doha. It also charges Doha with helping trainees from one camp in their attempt to bomb "an airport or other large facility" in the United States. That group included Ahmed Ressam, who was convicted in April of plotting to bomb the Los Angeles airport or another Southern California airport. Border agents arrested Ressam in December 1999 as he tried to drive a rental car filled with homemade explosives across the border into Port Angeles, Wash. He faces up to 130 years in prison. Last month, Ressam broke 18 months of silence and testified at the Manhattan trial of Mokhtar Haouari, who was convicted of participating in the bomb plot. In his trial testimony, Ressam identified Doha as another participant. In July, officials arrested Doha in London. Monday's indictment lists eight counts, including conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and provide material support to terrorists, said Marvin Smilon, a spokesman for the United States attorney's office in Manhattan. The indictment accuses Doha of speaking with Ressam at the Khalden terrorist training camp in Afghanistan about carrying out a bombing in the United States. At the time, Doha allegedly offered Ressam the "money or means of travel to Algeria" after he successfully completed the bombing. Prosecutors point to a Nov. 8, 1999, telephone call between Doha and Ressam, during which the pair allegedly completed the agreement. Doha also allegedly provided training and support for many young terrorists by raising money and running a training camp in Afghanistan "dedicated exclusively to training Algerian nationals in jihad operations." At these camps, the indictment alleges, trainees learned "various methods to kill nationals of the United States and others." In his testimony at last month's trial, Ressam said that the camps offered training on topics including "how to blow up the infrastructure of a country" and "the manufacture of explosives." Doha remains in custody in London and awaits extradition to New York. He faces life in prison if convicted of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction or conspiring to commit acts of terrorism. © 2001 The Washington Post Company -----------------------------------------------------------------

To: Moominoid who wrote (8682)	9/11/2001 10:42:31 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Anger over US support for Israel reaches boiling point By a Staff Writer JEDDAH, 11 September — Frustration is growing in Saudi Arabia with Washington’s blind support for Israel, and the Saudi press yesterday blasted the administration of President George Bush for failing to take action to stop the Israeli attacks against the Palestinians. The displeasure over US policy has prompted the Kingdom to call off a planned trip by its Chief of Staff Gen. Saleh Al-Mahaya to Washington for military talks. It was the second time this year that a senior Saudi official snubbed the United States over Washington’s support for Israel in the nearly one-year-old Palestinian uprising to end over three decades of Israeli occupation. Crown Prince Abdullah, the deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, in May turned down an invitation to visit the US in protest at Washington’s pro-Israel policies. Last week Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said during a regional tour that Arab patience was wearing thin and urged Washington to shoulder its responsibilities to curb Israeli “aggression” against the Palestinians. “Enough is enough,” Prince Saud told reporters in Amman after delivering a message from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd to Jordan’s King Abdallah II on ways to restore calm in the region and consolidate Arab unity against Israel. The Saudi press is unanimous in its condemnation of the American position. “Washington does not appear to be sufficiently concerned by the deteriorating situation, which suggests that it is giving its blessing to Israel’s increasingly aggressive behavior,” Al-Jazirah newspaper said in an editorial. The paper said Washington’s silence was no longer acceptable, “unless the US approves of the collective killings of Palestinians.” Al-Riyadh daily warned the United States and the West of the negative consequences of their support for “Zionists”. “America and the West provide material, political and military support to the Zionists, because they believe there is no threat to their interests in the Arab world,” the paper said in a front-page editorial. But it warned that “latent Arab forces observing the situation” might react in an unpredictable way if inaction persisted at the official level. Al-Madinah blamed Arab countries for not exerting enough pressure on the US administration to take an active role in the Middle East peace process. “The ambiguity of the Arabs’ position does not scare anyone ... accordingly, we should not expect Arab appeals to yield an American move,” said the paper. The Kingdom has put off annual talks of the joint Saudi-US military committee, which had been due to convene in Washington on Aug. 29-30. The Defense Ministry turned down a US request to reschedule the meeting, saying Gen. Al-Mahaya, who heads the Saudi side in the committee, “had prior engagements preventing him from traveling to Washington at the present time”. Gen. Al-Mahaya stayed away from the meeting even though he was vacationing in Washington with his family just 10 days before the talks were scheduled to take place. arabnews.com