
The other reason why understanding al-Qaeda's evolution is so important
is because the organisation's purpose has always been as much
inspirational as operational. The US believes alQaeda may have been
involved in this attack which has been blamed on the militant Hezbollah
group. And this has taken its toll on the detainees.
There they decided to turn to soft targets, as embassies were becoming
better protected. He explained how sweets were used, and how
interrogators had even been to the McDonalds on the main naval base and
brought back happy meals to take to prisoners to try to get them to
talk. They are always imperfect, but I think you see a lot of
progress.
The Kenyan ambassador to Israel, Lieutenant-General John Sawe, says that
is his opinion. Perhaps one of the best-known Guantanamo ex-inmates is
Danish national Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane, who announced in September he
planned to travel to Chechnya and fight Russian forces.
There is a tendency to see it as a monolithic foe directed by an
all-powerful leader pulling the strings.
Basque youths were arrested for that plot.
But analysts believe there is a danger in laying too much emphasis on
al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden alone when the reality is more complex -
and perhaps more dangerous. Access ErrorHeadline functionality has been
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In addition to the US and the UK, the speaker singles out Australia,
France, Poland, Norway, South Korea and Japan. The outgoing government
of Mr Aznar has consistently refused to negotiate with the group and has
outlawed Eta's alleged political wing, Batasuna. Mr Bush said: "Let me
make this very clear. The law in question is the Classified Information
Procedures Act, under which classified information in federal courts is
normally handled.
He was said to be planning to use a false Kenyan identity. Hambali is
reported to have arranged for Imam Samudra and others to train in
al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. These days, the public is more
sceptical.
New leaders are emerging on the local level, sometimes with limited
links to Bin Laden, who can build their own networks and stage their own
attacks. But tracing the history of contacts between Zarqawi and
al-Qaeda involves navigating some murky waters. And so now it looks like
the children may be released. Others could just be left here to wait. A
statement issued at the end of the two-day conference said the inmates'
situation at the US base in Cuba was "an unprecedented human rights
scandal". But for the hundreds of others of legal castaways here on this
remote beautiful corner of Cuba, the long wait to find out their fate
will go on.
Extensive interviews have led the US to believe they were kidnapped and
coerced into fighting in Afghanistan. The gunmen put up a "very strong"
fight, firing at security officials with automatic weapons, an official
told AFP news agency.
"Should they be transferred back to their own country, released or
further detained?
The Kenyan ambassador to Israel, Lieutenant-General John Sawe, says that
is his opinion.
The Bush administration has argued consistently that inmates held there
have no right to challenge the conditions of their detention because the
US courts do not have jurisdiction over the base. But for the hundreds
of others of legal castaways here on this remote beautiful corner of
Cuba, the long wait to find out their fate will go on.
But what is the evidence for his relationship with al-Qaeda - and for
his status as the mastermind of the Iraq insurgency?
He cited the apparently unquestioning US support for Israel; America's
presence on the Arabian peninsula; and support for regimes perceived as
oppressing Muslims and for Muslim "tyrannies". The devastating attacks
on the Sari nightclub and Paddy's Irish bar took place on the night of
the 12 October. Because online shopping is growing like weeds! The
attacks led to the US invasion of Afghanistan aimed at destroying
al-Qaeda camps and the Taleban regime that hosted them.
Washington says the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are "enemy combatants"
who have no right to lawyers and may be held indefinitely without
charge. At one trial in Germany, a witness said that Zarqawi had ordered
his followers not to co-operate with al-Qaeda.
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