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By Research by Amanda Bower and Rebecca Winters
ACTIVITIES WITH POSSIBLE ISLAMIC TERRORIST LINKS:
ARRESTS/DETENTIONS TERRORIST ATTACK FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK FINANCIAL BACKING
UNITED STATES
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Of a total 1,147 arests, fewer than 10 may be of people with information about the hijackers or the Sept. 11 attacks
[TERRORIST ATTACK] World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001; Pentagon and Pennsylvania in 2001
[FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Plans to blow up various bridges and tunnels around New York City and L.A. airport on New Year's Eve 2000
CANADA
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] As many as 20 people have been taken into custody in possible connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, and one faces extradition to the U.S.
SPAIN
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Six members of an alleged sleeper cell picked up across the country since Sept. 11
BRITAIN London in particular is seen by many as a terrorist recruiting zone
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Key arrests include Lotfi Raissi, who allegedly helped teach the hijackers how to fly; Kamel Daoudi, a computer whiz suspected in the Paris plot; and Yasser al-Siri, who was charged in connection with the assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmed Shah Massoud
FRANCE
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Eight people are still in custody as part of the so-called Beghal network. Djamel Beghal, first picked up in Dubai, has said he received his orders from bin Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah
[FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Beghal described a plan to blow up the U.S. embassy in Paris. An earlier plot, uncovered last December, targeted Strasbourg cathedral
GERMANY
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Alleged terrorist cells have been busted in Munich, Hamburg and Frankfurt. Officials are most interested in the Hamburg operation, which included hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi. Three others thought to have helped in the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks are the subject of international arrest warrants
BOSNIA
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] NATO says it has disrupted a terror cell. The alleged ringleader is linked to al-Qaeda, investigators say.
[FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] The arrests uncovered a comprehensive plot to attack Eagle Base, used by some 3,000 U.S. peacekeepers, as well as the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo
ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY
[FINANCIAL BACKING] The area where all three countries meet is thought to be a terrorist financing center; banks are investigating dozens of accounts for links
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Nineteen people in this "contraband capital" have been arrested, mostly on false-documentation charges, and Paraguay has charged officials in 11 of its consulates with selling illegal passports and documents
[FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Last November a Palestinian allegedly plotted to bomb the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Asuncion
URUGUAY
Al-Said Hassan Mokhles, an Egyptian wanted for his alleged role in a 1997 attack on tourists in Luxor, Egypt, was arrested leaving Brazil through Uruguay in 1999. He is said to have trained in an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan
[FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Last April, U.S. embassies in Uruguay, Paraguay and Ecuador shut down for three days after receiving "credible threats" of attacks
ISRAEL
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Israel says it has arrested two groups of suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Gaza and the West Bank
SAUDI ARABIA At least half of the 19 hijackers are thought to have been Saudis
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Saudi security services have carried out a small number of arrests of suspected supporters of the Saudi-born bin Laden
[TERRORIST ATTACK] Five Americans were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a military building in Riyadh in 1995; 19 died in a truck-bomb attack the next year
EGYPT
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Authorities plan to put on trial 253 alleged members of three Islamist groups linked to al-Qaeda. All were arrested before Sept. 11
SUDAN
Khartoum was bin Laden's base from 1991 to '96. The U.S. responded to the 1998 embassy bombings with a missile assault on a suspected chemical-weapons plant in the capital
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] The government has rounded up 30 "foreign extremists" since Sept. 11
SOMALIA
[TERRORIST ATTACK] In October 1993, 18 U.S. servicemen were killed in Mogadishu by Somalis who opposed U.N. intervention. Bin Laden claims they were assisted by al-Qaeda members
YEMEN
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [TERRORIST ATTACK] Dozens of arrests since Sept. 11, officials say Bin Laden has ties to attacks on two hotels where U.S. troops stayed and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole
[FINANCIAL BACKING] Three honey-related businesses were named by the U.S. Treasury as fronts to move al-Qaeda money
AFGHANISTAN
Al-Qaeda's main base of operations is under siege from rebels in the north and the U.S. on all sides
PAKISTAN
Three key suspects almost certainly arrived here Sept. 4, most likely on their way to Afghanistan
[ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] Hundreds of protesters have been detained, and three nuclear scientists were questioned
[FINANCIAL BACKING] U.S. authorities believe bin Laden uses Pakistan's illicit money-transfer trade to move cash
PHILLIPINES
[TERRORIST ATTACK] Radical group Abu Sayyaf, linked to al-Qaeda, has waged a campaign of terror, including the kidnapping of American citizens
[FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] Plots unrelated to Abu Sayyaf included a plan to kill the Pope and President Clinton
INDONESIA
Two Islamist groups, Islamic Defenders' Front and Laskar Jihad, are suspected of receiving al-Qaeda funds. Since Sept. 11, they have threatened Americans
BELGIUM [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS][FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] SWITZERLAND [FINANCIAL BACKING] ITALY [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS][FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] ALBANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] TUNISIA MAURITANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] ALGERIA CZECH REPUBLIC KOSOVO LIBYA LEBANON [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] JORDAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KUWAIT [FINANCIAL BACKING] QATAR U.A.E. [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FINANCIAL BACKING] ERITREA ETHIOPIA [FINANCIAL BACKING] [TERRORIST ATTACK] UGANDA [TERRORIST ATTACK] [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KENYA [TERRORIST ATTACK][ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] TANZANIA [TERRORIST ATTACK] CHECHNYA, RUSSIA AZERBAIJAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN BANGLADESH MALAYSIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS]
Sources: Congressional Research Service; State Department; wire services and news reports