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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune WAR ON TERRORISM 1] | | Friday, November23, 2001 Spain Believes Cell Tied to Sept. 11 Investigators convincedthathijacker met with local groupto plan attack Hambu BY SEBASTIAN ROTELLA MADRID,Spain carrying out theattacks cording to court docume andinterviewswithofficials. law enforcement officials told the Los Angeles that although police have not yet confirmed their theory, they suspect that Atta JeromeDelay/TheAssociated Press Taliban fighters who defected to the Northern Alliance arrive Thursday in their mud- met with leaders of a recently dismantled, Madrid-based cell of Osamabin Laden’s al-Qaida network, Atta’s suspected ties to the camouflagedtruck from the Chugafrontline outside the besieged Taliban city of Kunduz. cell, PapersLeft by Fleeing Taliban Show Afghanistan as a Militant Magnet BYKEITH B. RICHBURG ‘THE WASHINGTON POST KABUL, Afghanistan Documents left be- other basement, grenadeswerepiled on the floor new light on Afghanistan’: yearsas a gathering point for radical Islamic organizations from across the globe. Osama bin sticking out. Laden’s al-Qaidanetwork, the documents show, The documents — books, handwritten notes, leaflets, identity cards andnotations scrawled on scraps of paper were discovered in several houses scattered around Kabul where Arab, next to wooden boxes with detonator wires The existence of dozens of such houses around Kabul, well-knownto residents, show that while the U.S. military was concentrating on attacking what the Pentagoncalled terrorist campsin the desert, hundreds of radicals were doing their training in homesin the middle of quiet residential neighborhoods in the Afghan capital. Mostrevealing from the hundreds of pages of papers wasthe extent to which Afghanistan had Mostwere written in Arabic, others in Russian and Chechen. Taken together, they describe in becomethebase for a global network of radical Islamic groups stretching from the Middle East through CentralAsia to the Far East. previously unktiown detail the workings and namesofthe foreignIslamic groups that congregated in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, revealing as well an apparently influential role by One al-Qaida booklet, 26 thin pages bound with a yellow cover, appears to be a primer on al-Qaida and its sympathizers. One pagelists various militant groups: it saysare “helping Af- Chechen, Uzbek andother foreign fighters lived. the foreign militants in last March’s Taliban decision to destroy celebrated Buddhist statuesin Bamianprovince. New militants coming here for training re- ceived,for instance, copies ofa book called Jihad Laden's and what the booklet calls “Jihad milifrom Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Pakistan, Alsolisted, but unnamed, are “groups ‘from America, containing bin “Muslims are in danger from Americans and Jews” and vowsto drive the U.S. military from his native Saudi Arabia andneighboring Persian Kashm Gulf nations. Uzbekis an and Tajikistan.” “These Arab-Afghans are helping the Afghansin their fight against the infidels,” the “They wanted to get me out of Afghanistan and Sudan,” bin Laden writes in the preface to the book, whose mostrecent speech dates from 1998. “After disappearing for a time, I found a place for myself in Afghanistan. I havea stronghold in the Hindu Kush mountain range. I have these mountains and wecan defeattheinfidels here.” known as AbuDahdah.Heis a prominent figure in the Muslim community who emigrated from Syria and is a Spanish citizen. Thecell wasallegedly a hub of financing, recruitment and support servicesforal-Qaida in The discovery strengthened the allegations that the Madrid cell participated in planning for Europe. ¢ Free Caller ID. ¢ Free Paging * Free Voice-Mail * Call Waiting/Call hold ¢ Three Way Calling Whenever WE HAVEIT ALL! ero Ryser ro 200 Whenever SeraaCEE MADeean HWwod Unlimited Weekends Unlimited Weekends “ Lean booklet reads. “They are fighting for no payment.”It adds, “Our aimis to make the Americansleave the Gulf.” The booklet depicts al-Qaidaas just one of the militant groups, and it is not even listed first. One interpretation would be that al-Qaida is Dozens ofcopies of the paperback book were not the terrorist “umbrella network” often described by U.S. officials, but one radical organization among many with abase in Afghanistan. sti» Sale airport that was a destination ish official. former anti- legedly led by Barakat, also Somalia, Burma, Bosnia, foundin an al-Qaida house used by Arab volunteers in Kabul. The house andothers likeit offer ee ee ee ee FISH MARKET SPECIAL the Spanish Spain’s terror investigators have conducted surveillance ofa cell al- ments in the papers of the Madridsuspects, one of whom is a pilot, according to a Span- phone by Spanish investigators also found theplans of a California Long Distance & Digital Roaming Thelist includes the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement; the Libyan Jihad Fighters movement; the Abu Sayyaf separatist movement from ili s; a group called Abu Al Hasan-Al speeches and statements. In it, he warns that Against in investigation police. Since 1995, OVERSTOCKED 3 DAYS ONLY newevidenceofthe way thevolunteerslivedoe trained and the extent of their arsenal. basement ofonehousewas stackedwith crates of French-madeCrotaleanti-tank missiles. In an- hind whentheTalibanfled KabulI: gavethe groups’ volunteers basic military train. ing, from assault weapons to homemade bombs, andprovided them with an ideological underpinning ofanti-American zeal. number Barakat’s attacks and the worldwide alQaida network. The case grew out of an aggressive, six-year Qaida members, to give or receiveinstructions aboutthehijackings, to coordinate,” said the official. “He didn’t come here to sunbathe.” for one ofthe hijacked flights Imad Eddin Barakat ‘as, include the recent disof Investigative advances here focus on the potential role of the Spanish cell in the Sept. 11 among aviation-related docu- alleged leader of the Spanish covery sylvania, was a Newark-San Francisco flight. day. “We haven't proved it yet, but wehopeto.” “T believe Atta came to Spain to meet. with important al- hijackers, was a key step in Spanish was Los Angeles and the fourth plane, which crashed in Penn- kat or someone close to ish law enforcement official said Thurs- that a July by Mohamed A Times the Sept. 11 attack, The original destination of three of the hijacked planes apart came to Spain to meet with Spanish investigators believe mysterious trip to Germany, fugitive closeto Atta. “We are convincedthat Atta LOS ANGELES TIMES ee AAU a 912 East Fort a RK) STU aS Pern) EYER 775-0350 Pee 967-0264 567-0887 * Somerestrictions and limitationsapply. 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