A man alleged to have helped the 11 September hijackers who were based in Germany is to be formally charged, the German federal prosecutor has said. Abdelghani Mzoudi will be charged in coming weeks "on suspicion of supporting the Hamburg cell", prosecutor Kay Nehm told Der Spiegel magazine. Mr Mzoudi, a 29-year-old Moroccan, was arrested in Hamburg in October and accused of supporting al-Qaeda militants operating from the northern port city. Mr Mzoudi is accused of supporting the Hamburg cell in two ways: By making three money transfers from his bank account to Zakariya Essabar, who allegedly planned to pilot one of the planes but failed to get a US visa
Helping find an apartment for hijacker Marwan al-ShehhiMr Mzoudi is also said to have shared a flat with Mohammed Atta - the alleged leader of the hijackers - along with Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi Binalshibh.
The cleanup after 9-11 looks like it's going to go on for years. Things like this illustrate one of the problems with "Fourth Generation War." There are lots of Islamists in the world, many of them sitting in their corners and plotting dire revenge for something or other. They form these intricate, often sophisticated networks. Eventually, they Do Something, which if successful means doing something terrible, with lots of dead innocents. The act itself leads to the dissolution of the organization — all the members, and not just the boomers or snuffies, turn out to be expendable. - Not only are the 19 hijackers doorknob dead, but all their contacts and their support network are being rounded up or killed — by the hundreds when we went into Afghanistan.
- The Bali bombing exposed virtually the entire Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah organization. Everyone who's not in custody is on the run.
- The Yemen boat booms — the USS Cole, and its imitators — exposed that organization, most of which, once the Yemenis got on the stick, have been rounded up or killed.
- The reign of terror that started with the Daniel Pearl kidnapping a year ago led to Omar Saeed Sheikh's outfit being rounded up, followed by a small war between the Pak authorities and the combined forces of Harkat ul-Mujaheddin al-Aalmi, Lashkar e-Jhangvi, Sipah e-Sahaba, and sundry other fundo terror groups.
- Since all the members of the Moscow theater hostage group died, they're out of the way; we can assume the Russian FSB also rounded up their support network in the wake of the operation.
- The Israelis are doing the same thing in the wake of the bombing and killing campaigns last January through March, rounding up hundreds of thugs and controllers, effectively breaking the West Bank terror organizations (and Yasser Arafat in the process).
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