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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....

PARIS (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said he "absolutely does not regret the past", despite his country's former alleged support for terrorism. "We were in a phase of fighting for emancipation, liberation.... We were accused of being terrorists, but that is the price we had to pay. If that is terrorism, then we are proud to be terrorists because we helped the liberation of the (African) continent", Kadhafi told public Radio France Internationale. "I absolutely do not regret the past", he said in comments recorded in Brussels. The Libyan leader was speaking on the second and final day...

December 22, 2003 Khadaffy's new stance break in war on terror Bush re-election drive will reap benefits By PETER WORTHINGTON -- Toronto Sun It is a huge breakthrough in the war against terrorism. The fact that it will inevitably help George Bush be re-elected president next year is incidental -- albeit irritating to his enemies and frustrating to Democratic aspirants to the presidency. On his own "free will," Libyan President Col. Moammar Khadaffy has pledged to dismantle his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program, abandon bio-chemical weapons, and work towards making Africa and the Middle East a nuclear-free zone. This,...