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| Terror Networks |
| Moroccans talking to al-Haili |
| 2002-06-21 |
| A senior al Qaeda operations chief held by Moroccan authorities in connection with a conspiracy to bomb American and British warships is being questioned about other al Qaeda terrorism plans. Abu Zubair al-Haili, a Saudi Arabian arrested last week by Moroccan police, also is being asked about the identities and whereabouts of al Qaeda operatives, or cell members. U.S. intelligence officials have access to information from al-Haili, who is being interrogated by Moroccan officials, although they do not have direct access to the suspected terrorist. That could be because we're a squeamish lot, who don't like to hit people with truncheons. Or it could be that we're not, particularly, but that there's a horde of lily-livered enemy sympathizers who can't imagine someone blowing them up, ready to descend upon our guys at the first hint of hitting one of the sonsofbitches. Described as a close associate of Abu Zubaydah, the senior al Qaeda operational manager and key recruiter captured in March in Pakistan, al-Haili is believed to possess a vast amount of information about pending al Qaeda operations and the identity of cell members in this country and overseas. Authorities said al-Haili was responsible for recruiting would-be terrorists, arranging for their training at camps in Afghanistan and elsewhere and placing them in terrorist cells worldwide. So he's the next level down from Zubaydah, one of the capos. Nice snag. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |