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Even though six weeks have passed since the U.S. attacks, German police still havent produced conclusive evidence that the three terrorists from Hamburg were supplied and guided by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. But at least one thread links them: a Sudanese businessman who was arrested in Germany in 1998. Mamdouh Salim, 43, was extradited to the U.S. and is now awaiting trial for taking part in the conspiracy to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, as well as having stabbed a prison guard in New York during an escape attempt. When he was detained in Germany, Salim...

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