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Germans Arrested In Pakistan; Flirting with Jihad?
March 14, 2007

Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested two men from Germany near the border with Afghanistan -- they are suspected of having contact with Islamic terrorists. Berlin is trying to gain access to the prisoners, and is hoping to avoid a replay of the Kurnaz case.

Militant Islamists are thought to have camps in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now two men from Germany have been arrested there, accused of having contact with the militants. For most foreign visitors, the road to Waziristan ends less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Lahore, at a Pakistan military checkpoint. Beyond the checkpoint begins a journey through a mountainous no man's land dotted with small villages, past houses surrounded by high walls. Gun barrels jut from many a pickup truck with tinted windows. Getting out of the car here is not such a good idea.

Intelligence agencies are intensely interested in what goes on in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. No other area is mentioned more frequently in discussions of where exactly Osama bin Laden's hideout may be located. Pakistani intelligence agents estimate the number of terrorists in the region to be above 2,000, with most thought to come from Uzbekistan and Arab countries. "Not the right place to study the Koran," in the opinion of Ernst Uhrlau, the president of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND). His agency characterizes the region as "al-Qaida's deployment zone."

In the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, it's not difficult to spot a European -- even when they're dressed in traditional garb like the two German men that showed up in northern Pakistan early this year. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's intelligence agency, seized 29-year-old Nihad C. from Pforzheim, Germany, in Rawalpindi. Three days later an acquaintance of his, 30-year-old Michael N. from Oberhausen, was arrested in Raiwind.

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,471266,00.html

Iran to appeal Interpol arrest request
March 15, 2007

PARIS - Iran will appeal Interpol's request for the arrest of five prominent Iranians and a Lebanese militant wanted in connection with Argentina's worst terror attack, an Iranian official said Thursday. Argentina is seeking the six in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Eighty-five people were killed and 200 were wounded when a van pulled up outside the seven-story building and exploded.

SNIP:The six people targeted with red notices are former Iranian intelligence chief Ali Fallahian; Mohsen Rabbani, former cultural attache at the Iranian Embassy in Buenos Aires; former diplomat Ahmad Reza Asghari; Mohsen Rezaei, former leader of the elite Revolutionary Guards; Ahmad Vahidi, a general in the Revolutionary Guards; and Hezbollah militant Imad Moughnieh, one of the world's most sought-after terror suspects.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_re_eu/interpol_argentina_iran;_ylt=Ak9OOvs0z_gHQRubv0lXEKpvaA8F

Morocco Says W. Sahara Infiltrated By Al Qaida
3/15/07

CAIRO -- Morocco has asserted that Al Qaida infiltrated the disputed Western Sahara region. A Moroccan intelligence report said Al Qaida has sent operatives into Western Sahara over the last few months. The report said Al Qaida has established a presence in the mineral-rich territory where a low-intensity war has been waged by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front.

"The report has been relayed to the United States and other Western allies of Morocco," an Arab diplomatic source said. "The report says Al Qaida has exploited the lack of rule in Western Sahara for training and other operations."

On Tuesday, Moroccan newspapers said a suicide bomber who blew himself up in an Internet cafe in Casablanca was part of a network of attackers that planned to detonate their explosive belts throughout the city. The newspapers said the network was comprised of five Moroccan suicide bombers ordered to target Casablanca's police and paramilitary headquarters, restaurants and hotels.

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/march/03_15_2.html