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re post no. 138: "OCTOBER 31, 2002 : (CRAOTIA INVESTIGATION OF THE SHIP 'BOKA STAR' UNCOVERS EXPLOSIVES) CROATIAN authorities, aided by investigators from Interpol, are continuing to examine the Boka Star, detained in the port of Rijeka under suspicion of transporting an illicit military cargo for Iraq. Croatia's interior ministry said on Tuesday it was trying to identify the explosives, earlier described as "multipurpose", which were seized during the search of 240 tonnes of cargo on board the Tonga-flagged ship. The explosive materials found on the vessel have been removed and stored in a secure warehouse outside Rijeka. - http://www.bicc.de/milex/homepg/tracker.php3?action=show&input%5Bid%5D=4101, reported in Bonn International Center for Conversion, November 5, 2002"

DIE TAGESZEITUNG (English Translation): "EFFECTIVE SUPPORT FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In a report the government of the Bosnian Serb republic confirms weapon supplies to the Iraq

SPLIT taz Now it is confirmed: The Serbian-Bosnian company Orao supplied weapon parts for air defense systems since 1997 weapons and to the Iraq. From on weekend submitted 1,614 sides the strong report of the president of the Bosnian Serb republic, Dragan Cavic, it follows clearly that the company broke the UN weapons embargo against the Iraq.

The whole thing flew up, after on 12 October yearly passed had scanned international SFOR troops the Orao factory in the eastBosnian city Bjeljina. At that time among other things spare parts for combat aircraft of Soviet design were found of the type MiG-21. The investigators more still made references, which suggested stutzig activities of the company regarding air defense rockets. When on 22 October Croatian authorities the ship "Boka star", which had run out next to the montenegrinischen port bar and into Croatian territorial waters turned out, stopped and examined, was the proof furnished.

On the ship, which belongs to a montenegrinischen businessman and drove under the flag of the Tonga islands, over 200 tons explosives were guaranteed. Among them was a material for the drive of Scud rockets. The Yugoslav captain and its first officer were arrested and accused." -"taz No. 6947 of 7.1.2003, page 10, 103 lines (TA-e.g.-arranged), ERICH RATHFELDER"

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Upodated info on a guy we'd like to see dead, but who mayt yet manage to get an ACLU lawyer instead:

NOVEMBER 2002 : (MARITIME SECURITY : AL QAEDA : CAPTURE OF TERRORIST AL-NASHIRI aka AL-HARAZI aka AL-MAKKI) U.S. efforts to track al Qaeda's activities at sea received a boost last month with the capture of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, an alleged mastermind of al Qaeda's nautical strategy. Officials told the (Washington Post) that he was cooperating with U.S. interrogators. - "U.S. said to track ships believed linked to al Qaeda," Tuesday, December 31, 2002 *
Al-Nashiri, a suspected mastermind of the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, was captured in Yemen...U.S. officials are most interested in what al-Nashiri knows about attacks still to come, but also plan to question him on the Cole bombing which 17 U.S. sailors. A conviction in that case could mean a death sentence. ...CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports that al-Nashiri and Osama bin Laden first met in the 1980s when they both went to Afghanistan to aid in the Muslim holy war against the Soviet army. After the Soviets withdrew, al-Nashiri stayed with bin Laden and, according to U.S. officials, trained the al Qaeda operatives responsible for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, which killed 250 people, including 12 Americans. "He has a reputation as a ruthless operator," one U.S. official said. "He is a very committed follower of Osama bin Laden." One of the suicide bombers in the attack on the Nairobi embassy, known only as Azzam, is believed to have been his cousin. Al-Nashiri is said to be Saudi and in his 30s. He has also traveled under a number of other names, including Umar Mohammed al-Harazi and Abu Bilal al-Makki. U.S. officials believe he was in Ghazni, Afghanistan, around the time the American military campaign began there in October 2001. He is thought to have moved to Pakistan when the Taliban fell, and then on to Yemen. In the Cole attack, U.S. officials have said al-Nashiri gave telephone orders to the bombers from the United Arab Emirates. He then fled to Afghanistan. In addition to the Cole attack, officials say he has been involved with a number of plots targeting the U.S. Navy in the past three years. He is thought to be behind a nearly identical attempt to bomb another destroyer, the USS The Sullivans, nine months before the Cole attack, at Aden. That attack failed when the suicide boat, overloaded with explosives, sank. Most recently, he has been tied to a failed al Qaeda plot to bomb U.S. and British warships crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, U.S. officials have said. In June, three Saudis were arrested in Morocco in connection with that plot. He is also suspected of being behind plans to bomb the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain, a plot revealed in January by another top al Qaeda operative captured by Pakistan after fleeing Afghanistan. The 5th Fleet has responsibility for the Persian Gulf and provides ships for the operations of U.S. Central Command, which is running the war effort in Afghanistan. It also supports the enforcement of the no-fly zone over southern Iraq, the U.N. economic embargo against Iraq and the monitoring of sea traffic from the Arabian Sea to the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
U.S. intelligence also is investigating whether al-Nashiri was behind the Oct. 6 suicide boat bombing of a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, officials said. One crewman was killed. - "Suspected Qaeda Chief Cooperating, " CBS NEWS, WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2002 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/17/attack/main529656.shtml.