US identifies 'suicide terrorists' on training video
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Your support makes all the difference.The United States has identified five "suicide terrorists" through an al-Qa'ida training video, who it claims could be planning further attacks on America.
John Ashcroft, the Attorney General, said last night the men had made "martyrdom messages" on tapes found in the house of Mohammed Atef, a senior aide of Osama bin Laden. Atef is thought to have been killed in a US bombing raid in November.
"Analysis of the audio portion of these tapes conducted thus far suggests ... that the men may be trained and prepared to commit future suicide terrorist acts," Mr Ashcroft said. "We are asking for the public's assistance in further identifying and locating the individuals."
Mr Ashcroft named the men as Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni national wanted by Germany, Abd al-Rahim, Mohammed Sa'id Ali Hasan and Khalid Ibn Mohammed al-Juhani. He did not identify the fifth man.
Meanwhile a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross was preparing to inspect the conditions in which about 80 al-Qa'ida and Taliban fighters are being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Although the Pentagon has not named the prisoners, defence sources said one was the Taliban army's chief of staff, Mullah Fazel Mazloom.
Also yesterday, a suspected terrorist cell of eight al-Qa'ida fund-raisers and recruiters was arrested in Leicester as part of a police investigation into the network of British support for Osama bin Laden. Two Algerians separately accused of belonging to the group also appeared before Leicester magistrates on charges of membership of al-Qa'ida and inciting terrorism overseas. The alleged cell is accused of having links with groups in France, the Netherlands, Spain and Belgium.
The eight men, aged between 23 and 40 and believed to be mainly of Middle Eastern origin, are accused of using credit card fraud to raise funds.
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