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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43275)	9/12/2002 3:19:34 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Coded messages ...Clarity is good but so is ambiguity... By Naguib Mahfouz. Egyptian author (In awarding the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature to Naguib Mahfouz, the Swedish Academy of Letters noted that "through works rich in nuance - now clearsightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - (Mahfouz) has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.") ''Political regimes vary in their tolerance of free expression, which presents the writer with a number of dilemmas. I believe that a writer should first have a view that deserves to be expressed. Then it is up to him or her to decide on how to convey that view to the public. Novelists have many ways of getting around the censor. Many ideas can be conveyed by symbols, by creating a certain atmosphere, by suggestion, in the space between the lines. It is better to be discreet than dishonest. It is better to camouflage your thoughts than to distort them to please the powers that be. Even while disguising their opinion, novelists should express their true thoughts. Otherwise their writing would be muddled, worthless. If writers cannot address politics and remain truthful, then they should write about non-political matters. The message novelists send to their readership is an integral part of their art. True art cannot sacrifice content to form, which would constitute a betrayal. Indeed, it is the on- going and ensless mediation between the two -- between form and content -- that makes of art such a privileged site for human endeavour.''

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43275)	9/14/2002 2:25:32 AM
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Another key players arrested in Pakistan-WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ramzi Binalshibh, a key al Qaeda member accused of helping plan the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on the United States, has been captured in Pakistan, U.S. officials said on Friday. Binalshibh, who is wanted by Germany for his alleged role in planning and carrying out the deadly attacks, is one of the most important members of al Qaeda to be taken into custody over the past year. A U.S. official said Binalshibh was captured in Karachi around the first anniversary of the attack by Pakistani authorities with help from the FBI and CIA . He was found based on information provided by U.S. intelligence. U.S. officials have said the Yemeni national, who was refused a visa into the United States at least four times before Sept. 11, 2001, wanted to join the 19 hijackers involved in last year's attack. Binalshibh was one of the roommates of Mohamed Atta -- the suspected ringleader of the hijackers -- in Hamburg, Germany. He is also known as Ramzi bin al-Shaibah. Binalshibh is suspected of helping plan attacks and was very prominent in the Hamburg cell. His capture was considered a significant development in the U.S. goal of destroying the network, the officials said. Binalshibh was not as high in the organization as Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in March and turned over to U.S. authorities who have been interrogating him at a secret location outside the United States. Also on Friday, U.S. officials said law enforcement authorities had detained several al Qaeda-trained men near Buffalo, New York. They would not give further details of the arrests but said the men did not appear to be top-level members of al Qaeda. 'VERY SENSITIVE MATTER' It was not immediately clear whether Binalshibh had been turned over to U.S. authorities. One U.S. official declined to say what would happen next, adding, "It's a very sensitive matter." In an interview aired on CNN, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf described the raid that led to Binalshibh's capture as a violent one. "The place was raided and there was a shootout," he said, and two al Qaeda members were killed and 10 were arrested. He described the detainees as one Egyptian, one Saudi Arabian and eight Yemenis. Binalshibh's capture came just days after a journalist with al-Jazeera Arabic satellite television said he interviewed the Yemeni in or around Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi. Binalshibh and another key al Qaeda member reportedly affirmed that Osama bin Laden was personally involved in planning the Sept. 11 attacks that killed more than 3,000 people. Yosri Fouda, the al-Jazeera journalist who said he interviewed Binalshibh, said the Yemeni claimed to be the coordinator of the Sept. 11 attacks. Binalshibh said Atta called him on Aug. 29 last year and told him a riddle to set the date of the attacks, Fouda said. One of the suspected hijackers had tried to enroll Binalshibh in a flight school in Florida. After Binalshibh was unable to get into the United States, the leaders of the plot may have tried to find someone else to take part in the hijacking of the fourth plane, top FBI officials have said. Binalshibh is mentioned repeatedly in the indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. The indictment mentions at least four times that Binalshibh applied for, and failed to receive, a visa to enter the United States. It also details various money transfers he made to the hijackers and to Moussaoui.