USA -American Forces Press Service

Islam in USA

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Polish Prime Minister to Visit Washington

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Polish Prime Minister to Visit Washington
Statement by the Press Secretary
Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller to Visit Washington




President Bush has invited Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller to Washington on
January 11, 2002. The visit reflects the close and allied relationship between
the United States and Poland. A new and committed member of the NATO Alliance,
Poland has given solid support to fighting the war on terrorism. It was in
Poland last June that the President spoke of his vision of building a new
Europe whole, free, and at peace.

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I`m a new one here.
On his last visit in Vatican, Miller pointed a fact that his" Visit is the
second-one after Moscows, and before Americans".Now it is clear, hi was just
asked to visit U.S. on Jan.11th, so why telling us such "revelations"?/he have
to stay in line-that`s all/

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Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

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By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2001 – There are 45 Al Qaeda and Taliban
terrorists under U.S control, DoD spokeswoman Torie Clarke said
Dec. 27.

"There are 37 detainees in Kandahar and eight aboard the USS
Peleliu," Clarke said during a morning press briefing. Among them
are 20 new detainees Pakistan turned over on Dec. 26, Clarke
said.

She could not provide names and titles for the detainees. "Those
that we take under control are those that we think might provide
some valuable information, so we want to be able to talk to them
pretty thoroughly," she said. A variety of U.S. officials are
interrogating the detainees.

Proposals for the detainees' ultimate destination are under
consideration, Clarke said. They are "still a work in progress,"
she noted.

U.S. Navy and Air Force planes flew 133 sorties over Afghanistan
on Dec. 26, Clarke said. They dropped no ordnance.

Clarke said the primary objective in Afghanistan is still
"getting the Taliban and Al Qaeda leadership. We're working and
consulting closely with the anti-Taliban forces and the interim
government of Afghanistan," she said. "We're going to stay
focused hard on our objectives."

Clarke said the actions in Afghanistan have degraded the ability
of the Al Qaeda terror network to operate. "But the job isn't
done," she said. "It certainly isn't done when you realize it's
about more than just Afghanistan. Al Qaeda, by conservative
estimates, has got cells in 50 to 60 countries. The job is not
done yet."

In the Tora Bora cave and tunnel complex near Jalalabad, U.S. and
Afghan forces are "triaging" the caves systematically to see who
and what might be in them. "We'll use what the appropriate
resources are," Clarke said. "That might be any number of things.
We're generally not in the business of telegraphing our punches."

Clarke said Commando Solo radio broadcasts continue, and
coalition forces continue to drop leaflets over the country.

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Zyczenia Noworoczne dla Forum Swiat !!!!

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صوت القوقاز
www.qoqaz.com المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام
www.palestine-info.net
المرصد الإسلامي
www.ummah.org.uk/ioc/
حـركـات وجـمــاعـات إســلامـيــة


موقع إمارة أفغانستان الإسلامية
www.alemarh.com الجماعة الإسلامية المقاتلة
www.almuqatila.com
المرابطون ( الجماعة الإسلامية بمصر )
www.almurabeton.org الجماعة الإسلامية الليبية
www.libyanislamicgroup.org

الحركة الإسلامية للإصلاح
www.miraserve.com
رابطة أهل السنة في إيران
www.isl.org.uk
عــلـمـــاء ومــشــــــايـخ

الشيخ عبدالمنعم مصطفى حليمة
www.abubaseer.com الشيخ عمر بن محمود أبو عمر
members.nbci.com/bokatada
علماء الصحوة
www.sahwah.net الشيخ حمود العقلاء الشعيبي
www.aloqla.com
الشيخ ناصر العلوان
alsalafyoon.com/SuliemaAlwan الشيخ علي بن خضير الخضير
www.sahwah.net/HH
الإسلام سؤال وجواب للشيخ محمد المنجد
www.islam-qa.com الشيخ محمد الدويش
www.dweesh.com
موقع الشيخ عبدالله بن جبرين
www.ibn-jebreen.com
مـواقـع إســلامـية مـمـيــزة

صفحة التوحيد الإسلامية
www.attawhid.com
الأسوة الحسنة
www.aloswa.org
قوافل الشهداء
www.shuhadaa.org إذاعة طريق الإسلام
www.islamway.com

هداية الحيارى
khayma.com/hedaya
مـجـــلات إســلامــيـــــة

مجلة نداء الإسلام
www.islam.org.au/arabic.htm مجلة السـنة
www.demon.co.uk/cis/alsunnah
مـنـتـديات حـواريــــة

منتدى السقيفة
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Egyptian agent worked with Green Berets, bin Laden

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By Ton Hays and Sharon Theimer, The Associated Press December, 31 2001

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NEW YORK - When the Green Berets needed insight on the Middle East, they turned
to one of the US Army's own: Sgt. Ali Mohammed.

When Osama bin Laden wanted help training troops and raising money for his al-
Qaida terrorist network, he enlisted the same man, known as "Abu Mohammed ali
Amriki," or "Mohammed the American."

Now in US custody at an undisclosed location, the Egyptian-born Mohammed, 49,
ranks as one of the most puzzling figures in the war on terrorism.

His story shows how a terrorist managed to infiltrate American society and join
the United States Army, then turn his military training against his adopted
country. In the end, he also betrayed bin Laden - supplying the FBI with inside
information on al-Qaida as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors in the
1998 terrorist bombings of US embassies in Africa.

"He is one of the people who lurks in the background of this whole conspiracy,"
prosecutor Kenneth Karas said at the embassy bombing trial in New York earlier
this year.

Court records, including Mohammed's own admissions in his guilty plea last
year, portray a man who mixed easily with civilians in California, soldiers in
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya.

The trail of double-crosses can be traced to 1981. That year, as an Egyptian
army captain fluent in English, he completed a program for foreign officers
offered by the Special Forces school at Fort Bragg.

There, Mohammed learned unconventional warfare - the same training given Green
Berets, minus classified classes. He has admitted that around the same time, he
became involved with Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant Muslim group eventually
absorbed by al-Qaida.

Mohammed left the Egyptian Army in 1984 and contacted the CIA, offering to be a
spy, according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The CIA
learned he was boasting of a relationship with the agency, judged him
unreliable and dropped him as a source, the official said. He was later placed
on a US government watch list, according to US officials.

Mohammed moved to the United States in 1985, settling in northern California
and becoming a US citizen. He married Linda Lee Sanchez of Santa Clara,
California, that year at The Chapel of the Bells in Reno, Nevada. Sanchez, on
advice from her attorney, has declined to comment on Mohammed.

In 1986, at age 34, Mohammed joined the US Army in Oakland, California. Army
officials said they did not know to what extent his background was checked.

He returned to Fort Bragg as an enlisted man in 1987, working as a supply
sergeant for Special Forces. He never became a Green Beret or received security
clearance, but he gave briefings on Islamic fundamentalism and the Middle East
at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

During one lecture, he told soldiers they had nothing to fear from devout
Muslims, court records show.

"The word 'fundamentalism' scares people in the West," he said. "The
word 'fundamentalism' does not mean extremism."

At the same time, Mohammed was moonlighting as a trainer for soldiers of a
different stripe: militant Muslims in Brooklyn hoping to join the fight against
a Soviet puppet government in Afghanistan.

One member of the group, Khalid Ibrahim, testified at a 1995 trial that
Mohammed had trained them to fire AK47 assault rifles at a Connecticut shooting
range. The witness also told how Mohammed had given classes in a Jersey City,
New Jersey, apartment on "how to find your way by looking at the stars"
and "how to recognize some of the weapons if you see them - like tanks."

Some of Mohammed's students were later found guilty of plotting terrorist
attacks, including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and a scheme to
blow up New York City landmarks.

Seized from the apartment of one of the convicted terrorists were manuals from
the Kennedy training center, swiped by Mohammed - including an "enemy weapons
guide" describing the Soviet arsenal, according to court testimony. Defense
lawyers have said other documents included "top secret" plans for a Special
Forces training exercise for an attack on a section of Pakistan.

US Army officials and prosecutors declined to discuss the specifics of the
documents that ended up in the hands of America's future enemy. But a Special
Forces spokesman, Maj. Gary Kolb, called the value of a late-1980s training
manual in today's Afghanistan "debatable."

Back then, no breach of security was evident at Fort Bragg. Kolb said an
officer who worked with Mohammed "did have some suspicions about what he did,
but nothing came as a result of it. It really depended on who you believed."

Mohammed received at least two medals for "meritorious achievement" before
being honorable discharged in 1989.

After he left the US Army, Mohammed took up al-Qaida's cause. Ibrahim recalled
encountering a westernized Mohammed at a mountain training camp in Afghanistan
in 1992. L'Houssain Kherchtou - a former bin Laden follower who testified in
the embassy bombings trial - remembered meeting Mohammed at a training session
in Pakistan in the early 1990s.

Known as "Amriki," or "the American," Mohammed was "very, very strict and not
gentle" while giving explosives and reconnaissance training.

Trainees were warned in advance that Mohammed "was a severe man" who was "not a
good practitioner of Islam," Kherchtou said through an interpreter. "You can
hear from him some bad words."

Mohammed, during his plea, admitted teaching al-Qaida foot soldiers how to
create cell structures that could be used for operations. He also trained bin
Laden's security detail.

The plea provided one of the most direct links between bin Laden and the
bombings that killed 231 people - 12 Americans and 219 Africans - at the US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Mohammed claimed that bin Laden had asked him in late 1993 to conduct
surveillance of American, British, French and Israeli targets in Nairobi.

His diagrams and photographs were reviewed by bin Laden, who "looked at the
picture of the American Embassy and pointed to where a truck could go as a
suicide bomber," he said.

Returning to California in the mid-1990s, Mohammed helped a top aide to bin
Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, raise money for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He also
monitored the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman - the blind Egyptian cleric
convicted in the 1995 New York terrorism trials - for bin Laden.

Once terrorists had struck the embassies, Mohammed said he had planned to
return to Egypt and then join bin Laden in Afghanistan. But prosecutors have
said he also contacted the FBI, telling agents that bin Laden had been
responsible for the attacks.

Mohammed was subpoenaed to testify before a New York grand jury before being
indicted on conspiracy charges. He pleaded guilty in October 2000.

"Abu Mohammed ali Amriki" has not been seen in public since.

It remains unclear how Mohammed managed to enter the United States and join the
Army in the 1980s, despite the CIA's misgivings.

Equally unclear is how he was able to maintain his terror ties in the 1990s
without being banished by either side, even after the Special Forces documents
he had stolen turned up in the 1995 New York trial.

The State Department, CIA and FBI declined to answer questions about Mohammed.
Officials have refused to discuss how much he has helped in their

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By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2002 – Ask George W. Bush about
his field commander in Afghanistan, and he'll
describe Army Gen. Tommy Franks as a "down-to-earth,
no-nonsense" kind of guy.

"Precisely the kind of man we need to lead a complex
mission such as this," the president said after
meeting with Franks in Crawford, Texas, at the close
of the year. Bush said the commander is "fulfilling
the mission with patience, discipline and success."

The military's commander-in-chief invited the U.S.
Central Command chief to Prairie Chapel Ranch where
the first family spent the holidays. As it turns
out, Franks "is no stranger to Texas," the president
noted. The general was raised in Midland, Texas, and
went to Midland Lee High School at about the same
time as First Lady Laura Bush.

"A couple of months ago, a lot of people said that
this administration and our military weren't really
sure what we were doing, but I had confidence all
along," Bush told reporters during a Dec. 28 press
conference. His confidence, he said, was based on
briefings he'd received from Franks on the strategy
and on how the general planned to use the United
States military. "And he hasn't let us down," Bush
concluded.

Franks attributed the mission's success so far to
the "great young people"

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Afghan foreign minister says Taliban leader Omar in Baghran

By The Associated Press


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Foreign Minister Abdullah said Friday that deposed
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is surrounded near the city of Baghran.

"That situation will be made clear tomorrow or the day after," he told
reporters in the capital, Kabul, after the official signing ceremony for an
agreement on how international peacekeepers will operate in Afghanistan.

He is the highest-ranking Afghan official to confirm Omar's location. Since
Monday, lower-level Afghan aides have said negotiations for Omar's surrender
were being handled by a grand council of local tribal leaders in southern
Afghanistan.

Abdullah called Omar a terrorist and said he will be tried before an
international tribunal or here in Afghanistan.

"That will be decided when we capture him," Abdullah said. "He is in Baghran.
He is in Baghran."

Abdullah would not elaborate on troops - either Afghan or American -
surrounding Omar in the mountainous area northwest of the southern city of
Kandahar.

As the U.S. military shut down a desert base, Afghan officials said they were
negotiating with tribal leaders to surrender weapons and were scouring mountain
areas for the one-eyed Taliban leader and 1,500 of his fighters.

An aide to Kandahar's intelligence chief said Friday that the village where
Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is believed to be located was
surrounded, though he did not identify it. In Washington, officials said no
deal had been offered to the United States' second most wanted man, after Osama
bin Laden.

The governor of the southern city of Kandahar, Gul Agha, said Thursday his men
were not negotiating with Omar but were continuing to search for him and to
persuade tribal leaders to disarm.

If Omar doesn't agree to surrender, the Baghran region in the mountains north
of Kandahar where he is believed to be hiding faces possible bombing by U.S.-
led warplanes, Afghan and Pakistani military officials said.

Nasrat Ullah, a secretary for Kandahar intelligence chief Haji Gulalai, said
negotiations for Omar's surrender were continuing Friday. Said Ullah: "The
village where Omar is, is surrounded."

U.S. turns Camp Rhino over to Afghan authorities
The American desert base, Camp Rhino, was shut down Thursday and turned over to
Afghan government authorities after being returned to its original state - a
simple airstrip, Marine spokesman Capt. Stewart Upton said.

Also, the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne is taking over a base at Kandahar Airport
from the Marines, Upton said Friday. The handover suggests the area has been
secured and the operations have moved into a new phase.

At the daily U.S. Marines briefing in Kandahar, Upton said the advance Army
guard had arrived at the airport and the Marines of the 26th Marines
Expeditionary Unit would be packing and returning to naval ships in the Arabian
Sea. No specific time was given.

Marines from the airport have been searching Taliban and al-Qaida facilities in
deserts and mountains of southern Afghanistan. Operations earlier this week
focused on a cave complex and a 14-building compound, uncovering documents,
guns and other items.

In neighboring Pakistan, meanwhile, intelligence officials in Peshawar were
questioning the Taliban's former ambassador in Islamabad, who was arrested
Thursday, a senior official in the regional Home Ministry said on condition of
anonymity.

It was not known why Abdul Salaam Zaeef had been arrested, but Pakistani
Minister of Planning Haji Mohammad Muhaqeq branded Zaeef a criminal and a
leader of the Afghan al-Qaida who committed crimes against humanity, in the
world and in Afghanistan for his role in the Taliban.

Pakistan was once the Taliban's strongest ally - until it joined the U.S.
campaign against the hard-line Islamic militua - and Zaeef had been the
Taliban's most prominent spokesman.

Asked about talks over Omar, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said in
Washington that the United States would not approve of any negotiations which
would result in freeing of people who ought not to be freed, including those
involved in terrorism or harboring terrorists.

"I know that the interim government is right on the same sheet of music with
us, with respect to this. They want the Taliban caught," Rumsfeld said
Thursday.

U.S. plans bomb military compound in east Afghanistan
Also Thursday, U.S. warplanes struck a military compound in eastern Afghanistan
where al-Qaida members were regrouping, the Pentagon said. It was the first
American airstrike since Dec. 28. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news
agency reported that the bombardment killed 32 people and was continuing
Friday. It quoted witnesses as saying the bombing was so intense that residents
had no chance to remove bodies.

A tribal chief, Ghazi Nawaz Tani, asked for the airstrikes to end, claiming
they were killing civilians.

The bombing reflected a U.S. concern that remnants of the al-Qaida network -
which the United States blames for the Sept. 11 terror attacks - are trying to
reorganize even as the search for bin Laden continues by air, land and sea.

The military campaign has made it harder for al-Qaida to raise money,
communicate among its members, travel to and from Afghanistan and provide
terrorism training.

"We've disrupted any number of training camps, and it does take training to
become a polished, successful murderer or mass murderer," Rumsfeld said. "You
just don't walk out of grade school with that kind of knowledge; you need to
practice and be taught by experts."

At an al-Qaida camp 60 miles outside Kandahar searched by American Marines,
journalists toured the warren of caves and saw graded terrorist exams, a book
by bin Laden declaring an anti-American jihad, or holy war, and instructions on
assassinations and bomb-making.

Also Friday at the Kandahar airport, another 25 prisoners, most of them
Afghans, arrived for eventual transfer to prisons outside of Afghanistan. About
250 prisoners are being jailed there. Upton said the facility was being
expanded to hold up to 400.

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By Sgt. 1st Class Kathleen T. Rhem, USA
American Forces Press Service

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 5, 2002 – Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the
tall Texan who has become such a common figure to the
American public as he leads American forces fighting
terrorism in Afghanistan, was shopping for olives in Crete
when his world changed so drastically Sept. 11.

The commander in chief of U.S. Central Command here was in
Crete so his aircraft crew could rest en route to Pakistan.
He had just returned from shopping when a staff member
advised him to turn on the television. Franks watched with
the rest of the world as terrorists flew a hijacked jet
liner into the second tower of New York's World Trade
Center on live TV. He told American Forces Information
Service the moment is "indelibly burned" in his memory.

"There was no doubt in my mind that this was a terrorist
act," he said. And it didn't take him long to figure out
that he'd play a pivotal role in America's military
response.

"I guess my sense was that Central Command would be very
much involved in what would happen post-9/11 simply
because, of the 25 countries in our area of responsibility,
there are a number of sponsors of state terrorism," Franks
said. "And, of course, I knew there were a number of
terrorist networks operating within Afghanistan."

Since that day Franks has been a man with a mission.

Perhaps one of the reasons the coalition response to Sept.
11 events has been so successful in Afghanistan thus far is
that Franks believes so completely that the good guys will
win in the end. "There is no doubt America will solve this
problem of global terrorism," he said. "It's only a matter
of time, and I think this country has infinite patience."

He also believes completely that Osama bin Laden won't get
away with attacking the United States Sept. 11. "Whether he
is alive inside Afghanistan, or dead in Afghanistan, or
whether he has escaped to some other place … I don't know,"
Franks said. "But I do know that the planet is not a large
enough place for him to be able to get away."

Still, catching one leader or another shouldn't be used as
the only measure of success for operations in Afghanistan.
"Let's look at Afghanistan, and lets satisfy ourselves that
there is no longer a way for a terrorist network with
global reach to operate inside Afghanistan. Are we there
yet? Not yet. How long will it take us to get there? Not
sure, but I'm a patient man," Franks said.

He described ongoing operations in Afghanistan as rooting
out pockets of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. When U.S.
forces get intelligence information that suggests such a
pocket they go check it out to confirm or disprove that
information. "If we get people who want to give up, we take
them. If we get people who do not want to give up, we kill
them," Franks said. "That has been the process that we've
used, and I think we'll just stay with it."

The American-led coalition didn't suffer the same fate as
occupying Soviet forces that were forced out of Afghanistan
in the 1980s because the Afghans believe it when America's
leaders say they don't plan to leave an occupying force.

The Afghan interim government, led by Prime Minister Hamid
Karzai, came to power Dec. 22. Franks said they understand
fully that "we do not have any political motivations that
cause us to want to control anything inside Afghanistan."

"We're there to provide support and assistance to the
Afghan people as they prepare themselves to govern
themselves," the general explained. "Once that's done, our
formations will be out of Afghanistan."

Franks also said having an international coalition
strengthens America's chances of defeating terrorism
worldwide. Twenty-six nations have sent representatives to
Tampa to assist in planning, and Franks said "16 or 17"
countries have forces operating in and around Afghanistan.

He said the representatives in Tampa provide insight into
political sensitivities in their countries, which helps
U.S. defense leaders nip potential problems in the bud.

Prosecuting a war on international terrorism has also
forced the military services to reach a new level of joint
operations. "Who would have ever believed that we would
have men on horseback directing the activities, directing
the focus of combat power from B-1s, B-52s and high-
performance aircraft operating between 20,000 and 30,000
feet above the ground?" Franks said. But precisely that has
happened in Afghanistan.

He likened his role in the operation to putting together a
puzzle

Taliby na Kubie

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Al-Qaida planned hits on U.S. targets in Singapore

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Al-Qaida planned hits on U.S. targets in Singapore

January 12, 2002

BY STEVEN GUTKIN








SINGAPORE--Singapore released details Friday of what it said was an elaborate
plot by al-Qaida terrorists to blow up Western embassies, U.S. naval vessels
and a bus carrying American soldiers.

The government also made public a videotape it said was found in an al-Qaida
leader's house in which a man now in custody described how explosives could be
carried on a bicycle without arousing suspicion. Other evidence included Arabic-
language handwritten notes, also found in Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said in Washington that the threat to
Americans had been ''specific'' and that suspects arrested by Singapore over
the past month would be interrogated and, if appropriate, charged.

He also praised the Singapore government.

It was the first time a government has revealed that evidence found in
Afghanistan has been used to thwart terrorism. Singapore said the targets of
the plot included a shuttle bus carrying American soldiers, the offices of U.S.
companies, Western embassies and U.S. ships.

The disclosures Friday came just days after Singapore announced the December
arrests of 15 suspected Islamic militants the government said were involved in
an attack plan in the Southeast Asian city-state.

The arrests and alleged plots have shocked Singapore, a small island of 4
million people.

Thirteen of the suspects remain in custody and two have been freed, Singapore's
Ministry of Home Affairs said Friday. It said the 13 will be held for two years
under the Internal Security Act, which allows detention without trial for
anyone deemed a national security threat.

The videotape released by the government shows a man now in custody narrating
as the camera zooms in on alleged terror targets in Singapore.

''These are the same type of boxes which we intend to use,'' says the suspect,
Hashim bin Abas, as video footage shows boxes resting on top of bicycles--an
apparent reference to plans to hide explosives.

''It will not be suspicious to have a motorcycle or bicycle there,'' says bin
Abas in the snowy video shown Friday evening on Singapore television.

Those detained are believed to also have been planning attacks on the British
High Commission, the Israeli Embassy and the Australian High Commission, the
ministry said.

The government said the 13 are members of a clandestine organization called
Jamaah Islamiyah, or Islamic Group, and that eight had received training in
Afghanistan from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.

The Singapore government said the suspects had planned to blow up a shuttle bus
ferrying U.S. military personnel between a naval base and a subway station--in
addition to U.S. naval vessels in the waters northeast of Singapore.

The videotape and handwritten notes, which detailed plans to attack Americans
in Singapore, were ''found in the rubble of an al-Qaida leader's house in
Afghanistan,'' the ministry said. Also found ''was a list of over 200 U.S.
companies in Singapore,'' it said.

''Three of them were highlighted as potential targets apparently because the
office-bearers were regarded as fairly prominent members of the American
community in Singapore,'' the statement added.

Singapore authorities did not say who found the evidence in the al-Qaida
leader's house. They said they first learned of the discovery Dec. 14 and
received copies Dec. 28.

One of the suspects--a technician for government-linked Singapore Technologies
Aerospace--photographed Singapore's Paya Lebar Air base and U.S. military
aircraft there ''as a potential target for terrorist attack,'' the government
said.

About 17,000 Americans live in Singapore. Almost 6,000 multinational companies--
many of them American--have regional offices in the affluent city-state, and
American companies are among the biggest employers in Singapore.

The 15 were arrested in December after authorities found bomb-making
information along with photographs and video footage of the U.S. Embassy and
other buildings in the suspects' homes.

The government said the suspects also had al-Qaida-linked materials, fake
passports and forged immigration stamps. The U.S. Navy has a logistics unit in
Singapore and warships going to and from Afghanistan have been resupplied in
the city-state. Last year, Singapore opened a new naval facility specially
designed to accommodate U.S. aircraft carriers. AP

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US backs Israel's 'closure' of Arafat

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US backs Israel's 'closure' of Arafat
By Janine Zacharia


WASHINGTON (January 25) - The White House yesterday backed the government's
decision to keep Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, and
a US official told The Jerusalem Post the Aksa Martyrs' Brigades would soon be
added to the State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Meanwhile, in Khan Yunis last night, Adli Hamdan, a leader of the Hamas
military wing, was killed when two missiles from an IAF Apache helicopter
destroyed his car. (For full report, see Page A2)

Asked by reporters whether President George W. Bush believes it is proper for
Arafat to be "boxed in" in Ramallah, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
said: "The president understands the reason that Israel has taken the action
that it takes, and it is up to Chairman Arafat to demonstrate the leadership to
combat terrorism."

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher later described the confinement of
Arafat as an act of "self-defense."

The statements capped an extraordinary week of public support for Israel in
which all US government officials stressed the need for Arafat to demonstrate
leadership and combat terrorism. The endorsement of the confinement of Arafat
comes as the highest levels of the Bush administration are intensely
reevaluating how to deal with him and the PA, particularly after the Karine A
affair.

The attempt to smuggle in weapons from Iran with Hizbullah's assistance has
rattled the administration and thrown its peacemaking efforts into doubt.

On Wednesday, Fleischer said the smuggling attempt "has made it immensely more
difficult to pursue the path of peace," but he insisted the US will
remain "deeply involved" in the Middle East.

Bush this week sent letters to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan's King
Abdullah II - with whom he will meet here next Friday - and Saudi Crown Prince
Abdullah. The letters outlined how seriously the US views the Karine A affair
and PA complicity in the smuggling attempt, according to sources familiar with
their contents.

Sharon will meet with Bush in Washington on February 7, the Prime Minister's
Office announced last night.

A spokesman said Sharon has had a standing invitation for "a long while" and
that the two will discuss ways "to coordinate efforts" regarding Arafat.

Sharon was in Washington at the beginning of December on a visit that was cut
short by suicide bombing attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa.

Overall, since Israeli intelligence officials briefed American officials on the
Karine A two weeks ago, there has been a palpable paralysis in US diplomacy
toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly because of a deep split
between the Pentagon and the State Department on how to proceed. The cease-fire
mission of special envoy Anthony Zinni is suspended, though officials are not
declaring it as such. A senior State Department official said the fate of
Zinni's mission rests in Arafat's hands.

"It all depends on what Arafat does. We want to see what kind of action he is
prepared to take," he said.

Having invested close to a decade in the PA and the Oslo process, the State
Department is firmly against some of the toughest options being aired, like
closing the PLO representative's office here, severing ties with Arafat, or
levying sanctions on the PA.

This reluctance was evident in Secretary of State Colin Powell's phone call to
Arafat on Wednesday. He again conveyed the severity of the Karine A affair,
again asked for an explanation, and pleaded with him to take steps to fight
terrorism.

The call - which came as the US tries to isolate Arafat as much as possible -
surprised even some State Department officials, sources here in Washington
said.

From the Pentagon, there are calls to take tough measures against Arafat and
the PA. The Pentagon, which has taken the lead in the war on terrorism, largely
believes cooperation among the PA, Hizbullah, and Iran - as illustrated by the
Karine A affair - leaves the US no choice but to sever ties with Arafat.

Such a move, by nearly all accounts, is unlikely. The next step, it appears
likely, will be the addition of the Aksa Martyrs' Brigades to the State
Department's list of terrorist organizations.

The group took responsibility both for this week's shooting in Jerusalem, which
left two women dead, and the shooting rampage last Thursday at a bat mitzva
party in Hadera, which killed six.

By adding the group, the US can signal Arafat other factions of his Fatah could
be next, but still maintain a dialogue with him.

"It is going to happen. It is imminent," a US official said.

The group was established in the first month of the violence by members of
Fatah, who had been active in the intifada of 1987. In addition to shootings
and road-side bombings, it has acknowledged coordinating with Hamas's Izzadin
Kassam military wing and with members of the military wing of Islamic Jihad.

(Herb Keinon contributed to this report.)

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American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2002

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