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Just days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the INS deported Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, even though the FBI had evidence that linked the Saudi businessman to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Bojinka plot and Oklahoma City. Not only was Khalifa deported to Jordan, where he was subsequently freed, but the U.S. government let him leave with potentially incriminating evidence and cleared his record of terrorism charges. Evidence in the FBI's possession at the time potentially implicated the Saudi businessman in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the airliner bombing plot and the Oklahoma City...

Lair of Morocco bombers found Alastair Macdonald, Reuters Tuesday May 20, 2003 The Guardian The Moroccan police arrested a chemistry graduate yesterday after finding a suspected suicide bombers' lair in Casablanca, and the Saudi authorities detained a gunman outside the US consulate in Dharan. The news came as a senior American official conceded that there was no end in sight to the war on terror. Experts say last week's suicide attacks are evidence that al-Qaida is regrouping. One said that it had replaced its captured military chief, the alleged planner of 9/11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Egypt, an Arab ally which...

<p>Captured this week in Pakistan, a nephew of a reputed al Qaeda mastermind may know the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, sources said Thursday.</p> <p>The suspect, Ali Abed al Aziz, is a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and a cousin of Ramzi Youssef, who was convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the sources said.</p>

Under a clear night sky a convoy of four-wheel-drive pick-ups snaked along the slopes  past the mountain tribesmen. Over the years, they had grown used to the dust and noise from the many vehicles that supplied the complex maze of hilltop military camps.Then the sky exploded.From within the convoy orders were being yelled over the sound of the blasts higher up the hill. A man called Salem Ali was in charge. He ordered the drivers to move on, and they sped away. A few minutes later a second convoy raced by and was gone.It was the night of August 20...