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To: maceng2 who wrote (162)	9/23/2001 2:07:41 AM
From: Cal Gary	Respond to of 602

Trail of a Terrorist - the story of Ahmed Ressam is a damning indictment of Canada's ability to deal with the terrorist threat. (Full broadcast of the documentary: CBC Television News at 8 p.m., 8:30 p.m. in Nfld., 7 p.m. ET on CBC Newsworld.) September 21, 2001 cbc.ca I caught most of this. Excellent documentary. Perhaps one reason why President Bush recently snubbed Canada and its current Liberal government. As I understand, it'll be replayed [edit] tonight, Sunday on the CBC. I cannot find a posted schedule.

To: maceng2 who wrote (162)	9/23/2001 9:24:00 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 602

"we know where Bin Laden is" story getting a big spread in the British Newspapers. Blair to rush through new laws against terrorists By Joe Murphy, Political Editor (Filed: 23/09/2001) DRACONIAN anti-terrorist laws which will put Britain into direct conflict with the European Convention on Human Rights are to be set out out this week as new evidence emerges that Britain could be targeted for attack. Increased powers of arrest for the police to interrogate suspects and moves to abolish some rights of judicial appeal for immigrants turned back at airports will figure in up to three separate emergency Bills to go before Parliament. The legislation is regarded as so controversial that Tony Blair will contact Iain Duncan Smith and Charles Kennedy, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders, in the next 24 hours with a plea for cross-party consensus. Mr Duncan Smith has publicly pledged to support any anti-terrorism measures but Mr Kennedy could come under pressure to oppose the measures at his party conference in Bournemouth this week. The move comes after a wave of arrests of terrorist suspects in Britain and Europe. Four people arrested on Friday in London, Birmingham and Berkshire were still being questioned in Central London last night in connection with the attack on the World Trade Centre. Two homes in Birmingham used by one of the men were raided by police and a car was seized. The Telegraph understands that the three people arrested in the South East are Algerian and are all related. The person held in Birmingham is of Saudi origin and it believed to have arrived a few months ago from the United States. Belgian police arrested two men in Brussels and seized a large quantity of chemicals which could be used for bomb making. This included 220lb of sulphur and 13 gallons of acetone. The men were linked to Islamic militants planning attacks on American targets. Seven more suspects are being held in France. Among specific measures being considered by Mr Blair are powers for police to arrest people suspected of having knowledge about terrorism solely in order to interrogate them. The measure was considered two years ago after the Omagh bomb but ruled out because it conflicted with the Human Rights Convention. Legislation to allow transcripts of telephone conversations bugged by MI5 to be used as evidence in court is also being treated as a "live issue" in Whitehall. Previously, it has been opposed by MI5 on the grounds that it would expose its methods. In addition, new rules will compel banks to inform the police of all transactions and accounts involving suspected terrorist financiers. Ministers are braced for opposition from civil rights campaigners and some Labour MPs. Mr Blair was this weekend telephoning senior ministers to consult them on a decision to shorten the Labour Party conference to half its usual length. The conference, due to start in Brighton next Sunday, is expected to be cut to 2.5 days. Mr Blair considered cancelling it but now believes that he cannot pass up the opportunity to persuade dismayed Labour activists and MPs to support the looming military assault against Islamic terrorist bases. The build-up around Afghanistan continued yesterday with dozens of American aircraft - including B-1 and B-52 bombers, A-10 Warthog tankbusters and refuelling planes - being deployed to the Gulf and the Indian Ocean. They join 350 warplanes at land bases and on two aircraft carriers in the region. In an unprecedented move, two United States surveillance planes were allowed to land in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, the first time the Americans have been allowed to mount military operations from the state, which neighbours Afghanistan. The US Navy assault ship Essex left port at Sasebo in Japan yesterday, and was expected to head for the Indian Ocean. Two further US aircraft carriers began sailing towards the region last week. Expectations of an imminent assault on Afghanistan were raised when Downing Street implied that it had intelligence evidence that Osama bin Laden, the fugitive leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network behind the destruction of the World Trade Centre, is hiding in the Islamic state. Mr Blair's spokesman said: "Bin Laden is in Afghanistan. We know he is there, put it that way." Downing Street later played down the significance of the remarks, saying that bid Laden's exact hideout had not yet been pinpointed . British and US intelligence services have pooled information from human sources and electronic monitoring by GCHQ to narrow down the hunt for bin Laden. American spy satellites are carrying out regular sweeps of training camps using high-definition cameras capable of producing images accurate to one metre. In Washington, analysts believe that bin Laden may attempt to flee to Somalia. Terrorist experts say that bin Laden is unlikely to be hiding in a remote mountain area but is instead in one of the populous villages in the north west where any attack would cause civilian casualties, effectively providing him with a human shield. President Bush yesterday appealed for confidence in the US economy, threatened with recession after the September 11 attacks. In a radio broadcast he admitted that the economy had suffered a "shock" but declared: "We're still the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, and no terrorist will ever be able to decide our fate." In New York, it was reported that two suspects had been found with plans to assassinate President Bush. One had a computer file labelled "killpresidentbush.exe" and the other had documents linked to money laundering for bin Laden. American investigators want to question a man who tried to fly into Chicago with false passports and two airline uniforms on the day of the terrorist attacks. Nageeb Al-Hadi was aboard a Chicago-bound Lufthansa jet from Germany that was diverted to Canada following the attacks. He was taken into custody in Toronto and America plans to file extradition papers. portal.telegraph.co.uk