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German investigators say they have evidence that Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, and two accomplices trained at Qaeda camps in Afghanistan from late 1999 to early 2000. They have also established a clear link between Al Qaeda and a recent attack on a Tunisian synagogue, a top official said. The timing of the Afghanistan training, outlined yesterday by a senior investigator, provides the strongest evidence so far that plans for the attacks on the United States were worked out there. Less than six months after leaving Afghanistan, Mr. Atta and the other two men...

Sherwangei, Pakistan (CNN) -- A passport bearing the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, has been found in a town captured by the Pakistani military. The passport was found in South Waziristan, where the Pakistani military has been battling to wrest territory from the Taliban in Pakistan. It contained a Pakistani visa issued in August 2001 showing that the bearer entered Pakistan on September 4, 2001, and appeared unusually new for a document eight years old. CNN has not independently confirmed its authenticity. The photo in the passport resembles...

HAMBURG - A suspected September 11 conspirator who is being hunted by police worldwide has e-mailed his wife in Germany to say he will never “bow to infidels” by surrendering, according to a report on Saturday. German-born Said Bahaji, 29, e-mailed his Hamburg wife Nese to reject her repeated entreaties for him to surrender to authorities, said the report in Der Spiegel news magazine. “I am convinced it would be a huge mistake for me to return,” he wrote in the e-mail dated July 20. Dismissing assurances by German authorities that he would face a fair and objective trail, Bahaji...