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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CountofMoneyCristo who wrote (4311)	9/20/2001 2:50:53 PM
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Again, no disinformation training it seems: Man Held in US Attacks `Brainwashed' By Extremists-Mother PARIS (AP)--The mother of a French-Moroccan man currently detained in New York by officials investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington says her son was "brainwashed" by Islamic extremists. Zacarias Moussaoui was described by the French magazine L'Express as "maybe the 20th man" - intended to be one more member of the commando teams that hijacked four planes. The FBI has identified 19 suspected hijackers. Moussaoui was detained on Aug. 17 on immigration issues after he aroused suspicions by seeking to buy time on a flight simulator for jetliners at a Minnesota flight school, law enforcement officials say. He had also sought flight training in Oklahoma. His mother, Aicha Moussaoui, told L'Express in an article published on the magazine's Web site that her son had apparently undergone a conversion to a strict form of Islam, through his contacts with Islamic organizations while living and studying in the U.K. in the 1990s. "To me," she said, "they had put him through a real brainwashing." Mrs. Moussaoui, who lives in the southern French town of Narbonne, couldn't be reached on Thursday. The town's newspaper, the Independent, told The Associated Press she had fled the area after being pursued by journalists. Police officials have told The AP that France's internal security service had placed Moussaoui on a 1999 watch list of those possibly affiliated with militant Islamic groups. Moussaoui's mother told L'Express that her son developed "a true hatred" when high school officials in his town rejected him and directed him to a technical school. She said she had been separated from her son for a number of years. She said he came home most recently in 1997, to ask her forgiveness for earlier behavior that led her to ban him from the house. She said he had grown a beard, and argued with local youngsters, accusing them of using their mosque as a hangout rather than a place for prayer. In another development, judicial officials said Thursday that a suspected Islamic militant who was arrested in the Middle East this summer tipped off authorities about possible plots to attack U.S. interests in France. After his arrest in Dubai this July, Djamel Begal, a French-Algerian, informed intelligence services there about the alleged plans, the officials said, confirming reports that first appeared in Le Monde newspaper. Officials in the United Arab Emirates turned the information over to the DST, France's internal security service, it said. Last week, before the terror attacks in the U.S., French anti-terrorism judges opened an investigation into possible threats to U.S. interests in France. News reports have said the U.S. Embassy in Paris was a target, although authorities have declined to comment.