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

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (19717)	11/8/2002 12:42:29 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 27666

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To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (19717)	11/8/2002 10:23:26 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Terrorists hold 'summit' to wreak havoc Top terror organisations hold talks in Paraguay to plan new deadly attacks against American and Israeli targets WASHINGTON - It was a 'world summit' that the United States and its allies would have loved to gatecrash, with the full might of their military machine. In an unusual move, top terrorist organisations recently held their own terrorism summit in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay to discuss new attacks against US and Israeli targets. The meeting, which was attended by 'an international panel of terrorists from the Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and other extremist Islamic groups', took place in Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este. It was believed to have been organised by a wanted terrorist named Imad Mugniyeh, whose bases are in Iran and Hezbollah-controlled areas of Lebanon. Mugniyeh is suspected of being the mastermind in a long list of attacks against US and Israeli targets during the past 20 years, including the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. He is said to be directing the activities of terrorists in South America. 'We had intelligence that pointed to increased terrorist activity,' the head of Argentina's intelligence agency, Mr Miguel Toma, told CNN. 'It is not unrealistic that there could be some action to prevent or to react to an attack on Iraq. So we need to react because of the global conflict.' Long considered a hub for terrorist activities, the tri- border area has been the focus of several Western intelligence agencies since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. 'The life-blood of terrorism is money... and the triple border is a sort of magnet, attracting a lot of illegal activism - money laundering, weapons sales, drug trafficking, fake documentation, counterfeiting - which can be used to earn money for other ends,' US ambassador to Paraguay David Greenlee said. Before Sept 11, at least 30,000 residents of Arab origins in Ciudad del Este were suspected of harbouring terrorist sleeper cells. After the attacks, waves of officials from the three countries, plus the CIA and Israel's Mossad, descended on the city of 220,000 people, home to dozens of ethnic groups including Koreans and Chinese. As a result of the intensive checks, the city's Arab population has dwindled to 12,000. 'There is a direct correlation between terrorism here and in the US,' Mr Toma said. Twenty-three suspects were arrested in the city and in neighbouring Foz do Iguassu in Brazil and Puerto Iguazu in Argentina. According to a source close to the Paraguayan investigation, about a dozen others fled to Lebanon, Syria, Angola and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Meanwhile in the wake of worldwide alerts of possible attacks against US and British targets, US army chief Richard Myers said Al-Qaeda operatives remained at large. 'I think Al-Qaeda is still quite strong, still quite capable of another major terrorist operation, and probably have planned it,' General Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, told BBC radio. Whether Osama was alive or dead made no difference to the threat from his network of terror, he said. --AFP