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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:France, Belgium Round Up 14 in Masood Assassination Probe Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit France, Belgium Round Up 14 in Masood Assassination Probe [The Northern Alliance, so lately regarded in Europe as just another group of brawling Afghan thugs and drug-runners, are once again "Friends of Freedom", and the assassination of their leader Ahmad Shah Masood merits lots of serious attention from Interpol heavies and intel allies of the USA's Infinite Crusade. AP via the Times of India - Nov 27, 2001 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=2112540236 BRUSSELS: Fourteen people were detained in Belgium and France on Monday as part of an international probe into the killing of Afghan opposition commander Ahmad Shah Masood, slain two days before the September 11 attacks on the United States. Twelve were detained in Belgium and two, including a Tunisian man, in France, sources close to the investigation said. In Belgium the suspects were arrested in Brussels, Mons and Louvain, while in France one was arrested in Paris, the second on a farm near the Belgian border. The arrests followed the issuing of an international arrest warrant by a judge in Belgium, which is suspected to have been a point of passage for at least one of two men who killed Masood in a suicide bomb attack at his home in Afghanistan's Panshir valley on Sept 9. The alleged killers, who gained access to Masood by posing as journalists, were Moroccan citizens carrying Belgian passports stolen from consulates in Strasbourg and The Hague. RTL-TVI said that at least one of the suicide bombers had travelled to Brussels where he received assistance from all or some of the suspects detained on Monday, a report neither confirmed nor denied by the Belgian authorities. The murder of the anti-Taliban opposition leader is believed to have been orchestrated by alleged terrorist leader Osama bin Laden,possibly as a diversion before the suicide jet attacks in the United States which killed more than 4,000 people. Bin Laden, the chief suspect of those attacks, is now believed to be sheltering with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, after its other strongholds fell to the Northern Alliance. Monday's arrests follow that in London on October 30 of an Egyptian citizen Yasser al-Siri, charged in connection with Masood's murder. Al-Siri, 38, runs the "Islamic Observation Centre" in the British capital and according to press reports he provided the two bombers with a letter of recommendation that helped them gain access to Masood. He is accused of conspiracy with others to murder Masood. Al-Siri is also wanted in Egypt in connection with a 1994 attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Atef Sadeki. He has been tried in absentia for that crime and sentenced to death. ( AP ) ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
