More Wins Than Losses

By Text By Missy Adams Sunday, June 16, 2002
    • On June 10 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the arrest of suspected al-Qaeda associate Jose Padilla in an alleged plot to explode a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city. It was only the first big development in a busy week in the war against terrorism

    FRANCE
    On June 12 antiterrorist police arrested five men from Pakistan and North Africa they believe may have had contact with or provided logistical support for alleged "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in his attempt to blow up a Paris-to-Miami flight last December

    MOROCCO
    On June 10 security services announced the arrest of three Saudi al-Qaeda members — Zuher al-Tbaiti, Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal Alissiri — for planning an attack on NATO warships in the Strait of Gibraltar

    GERMANY
    German intelligence agents say Mohamed Heidar Zammar is an important player in the Sept. 11 plot. But on June 12 the Germans said they had lost track of Zammar, a German citizen of Syrian origin, after letting him travel to Morocco last October. They claim he is in U.S. custody and have asked the U.S. for his whereabouts. The State Department has not replied

    BOSNIA
    The Illinois-based Benevolence International Foundation says it is a charity, but last week officials revealed that during raids in Sarajevo in March, police found evidence said to link the foundation and its head, Enaam Arnaout, right, to Osama bin Laden. Arnaout is being held in Chicago

    PAKISTAN
    On June 14 a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside the American consulate in Karachi, killing 11 and injuring 45 others. But there were successes as well. Officials say they detained Pakistani associates of American dirty-bomb plotter Jose Padilla. The Pakistanis also claimed that over the past few weeks, border raids had captured several more American al-Qaeda fighters, though U.S. officials denied the claim

    SUDAN
    On June 12 U.S. officials disclosed that a suspected al-Qaeda operative accused of firing a surface-to-air missile at a U.S. aircraft in Saudi Arabia had been arrested here weeks ago