Iraqi with alleged terrorist ties arrested in Phoenix

The Arizona Republic ^ | Feb. 20, 2003 02:00 PM | Susan Carroll, Daniel Gonzalez and Carol Sowers

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This would bar localities from creating sanctuaries for undocumented entrants and potentially require local police, schools, and health facilities to report any information concerning the whereabouts of undocumented immigrants. States and localities in violation of this requirement would lose new crime bill funds.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to pass it on to a local group here in Phoenix, because it definitely is not being enforced in Arizona.

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http://specials.ft.com/attackonterrorism/FT3A19YFO0D.html

US charges Islamic charity head with perjury

The government also alleges that Mr Arnaout assisted several al-Qaeda operatives, including Mamdouh Salim, an Iraqi facing charges over bombing two US embassies in east Africa in 1998, and Mohamad Jamal Khalifa, Mr bin Laden's brother-in-law, who has been tied to terrorist plots in the Philippines.

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/210xzrlt.asp

A Match Made in Hell

According to several intelligence officials I spoke to, the relationship between bin Laden and Saddam's regime was brokered in the early nineteen-nineties by the then de-facto leader of Sudan, the pan-Islamist radical Hassan al-Tourabi. Tourabi, sources say, persuaded the ostensibly secular Saddam to add to the Iraqi flag the words "Allahu Akbar," as a concession to Muslim radicals.

In interviews with senior officials, the following picture emerged: American intelligence believes that Al Qaeda and Saddam reached a non-aggression agreement in 1993, and that the relationship deepened further in the mid-nineteen-nineties, when an Al Qaeda operative (a native-born Iraqi who goes by the name Abu Abdullah al-Iraq) was dispatched by bin Laden to ask the Iraqis for help in poison-gas training. Al-Iraqi's mission was successful, and an unknown number of trainers from an Iraqi secret-police organization called Unit 999 were dispatched to camps in Afghanistan to instruct Al Qaeda terrorists. (Training in hijacking techniques was also provided to foreign Islamist radicals inside Iraq, according to two Iraqi defectors quoted in a report in the Times in November of 2001.) Another Al Qaeda operative, the Iraqi-born Mamdouh Salim, who goes by the name Abu Hajer al-Iraqi, also served as a liaison in the mid-nineteen-nineties to Iraqi intelligence. Salim, according to a recent book, "The Age of Sacred Terror," by the former N.S.C. officials Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, was bin Laden's chief procurer of weapons of mass destruction, and was involved in the early nineties in chemical-weapons development in Sudan.

Salim was arrested in Germany in 1998 and was extradited to the United States. He is awaiting trial in New York on charges related to the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings; he was convicted last April of stabbing a Manhattan prison guard in the eye with a sharpened comb.