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For Release Monday, May 31 A Look at the New Generation of Terrorist Leaders The Associated Press May 30, 2004 A look at world's new generation of terrorist leaders: ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI Former commander for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, 38-year-old Jordanian has links to terrorist groups from North Africa to Caucuses. Allegedly maintains ties to al-Qaida and believed to be leading resistance to Iraq's occupation. CIA says Zarqawi was black-clad militant who decapitated American Nicholas Berg. Also believed to have had hand in March 11 bombings in Madrid, Spain, failed chemical attack in Jordan and numerous attacks in Iraq....

BOSTON -- The FBI has issued an alert, asking the public to be on the lookout for four Middle Eastern men the agency wants for questioning on terrorist matters and they may be in New England. The FBI in Portland, Maine has alerted State Police that a witness may have seen two men who resembled the wanted men in that area. The witness spotted them in Naples, Maine, just northwest of Portland, last Sunday around 4 p.m. They were heading south on Route 302. The witness told police the two men were driving a late-model, slate-gray BMW with Massachusetts plates....