2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 17, 2002 NATION/WORLD Officials identify al-Qaida plotters NEWS IN BRIEF. .: . . t WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. counterterrorism officials have identified two key lieutenants of Osama bin Laden - including an alleged mastermind of the Sept. I1 attacks - as the most active plotters of sev- eral al-Qaida attacks during the past year. While many top al-Qaida leaders went into hiding after Sept. 11, Khalid Shaikh Mohanuned and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have taken the lead in arranging new attacks with cells in the field, U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Mohammed, a Sept. 11 organizer who has risen to be one of bin Laden's top planners, and al- Nashiri, al-Qaida's Persian Gulf operations chief, are among roughly two dozen key lieutenants being sought by the CIA, FBI and military in a worldwide manhunt. While last week's capture of Ramzi Binalshibh in Pakistan may shed light on both the Sept. 11 attacks and ongoing al-Qaida plots, U.S. officials say he was not a leader but an aide to Mohammed. Offi- cials hope that by tracking down the leaders they can disrupt terrorist plots and the multiple cells under their command. Mohammed, a Kuwait-born Pakistani national, has been linked to the April 11 suicide truck bombing of the Djerba synagogue in Tunisia. At least 19 tourists, mostly Germans, were killed. The suspected bomber, Nizar Naouar, spoke by phone with Mohammed about three hours before the attack, German officials said. Bin Laden's son Saad, seen as a rising star in al-Qaida, is also suspected of ties to the plot. The Tunisia attack marked al-Qaida's first success- ful strike since Sept. 11. The suicide bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi in June is also believed to be an al-Qaida operation, but who commanded it has not been determined. Mohammed, who is on the FBI's most-wanted ter- rorists list, has been charged in connection with plots in the Philippines to bomb trans-Pacific airliners and crash a plane into CIA headquarters. Those were bro- ken up in 1995. He is believed to be related to Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. "He's the most significant operational player out there right now," said a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking recently on the condition of anonymity. U.S. counterterrorism officials believed Mohammed was in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as recently as June. The capture of Binalshibh, a Yemeni and planner in the Sept. 11 attacks, probably has set Mohammed on the run, said Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism official. "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is probably in touch with all the cells, through other lieutenants," he said. "(Binalshibh) will know where he is - or at least, where he was." Al-Nashiri is more of a mystery. A Saudi who is also known as Umar Mohammed al-Harazi and Abu Bilal al-Makki, he is considered a step below Mohammed in al-Qaida's hierarchy. JAKATA, Indonesia N I 1:1 REGISTRAR'S BULLETIN BOARD DATES TO REMEMBER Mon., Sept. 23 Mon., Sept. 23 Tues, Sept. 24 Mon., Oct. 14 Tues., Oct. 15 LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM FALL TERM-with only an assessment of a $50 disenrollment fee and an $80 registration fee. LAST DAY TO DROP CLASSES-with a reduction in tuition. Authorization required to drop, add, or modify. Web registration no longer available for FALL TERM. BEGIN fifty percent reduction of tuition for complete withdrawals from fall term. The $80 registration fee will not be cancelled. This fee adjustment applies only to complete withdrawals from the term and not to a reduction of credit hours. LIKE A READTHE DAILY YOU WOULD ',OVE TO WRITE, TOO. COME LEARN MORE TONIGHT. AT* P.M. R: SEPT. 19, R P.M. SEr. 23, 9 P.M. STUDENT PUBLICAIiON$ BUILDING, 4 0 MAYNARD T. $2.N00 CUSTOM PRINTED Arrests signal possible terror attacks The Singapore government said yesterday it had arrested 21 people suspect- ed of being terrorists, including some who were trained in al-Qaida camps and several who conducted reconnaissance of potential bombing targets in the island nation. The arrests add to evidence of terrorist activity in Southeast Asia amid mount- ing concerns that the al-Qaida terrorist network is attempting to carry out new attacks against U.S. embassies, warships and other targets in the region. Nineteen of the Singapore detainees are current or former members of Jemaah Islamiah, an organization linked to al-Qaida that planned seven suicide truck bombings of high-profile targets in Singapore late last year, the Singapore Min- istry of Home Affairs said. "These latest arrests have seriously disrupted the JI (Jemaah Islamiah) network in Singapore," the ministry said in a four-paragraph statement. "There is no known imminent security threat from other JI elements in Singapore." All the detainees are Singapore citizens and some traveled to Afghanistan for al-Qaida training, the government said. The arrests took place in August but were not made public until yesterday. Names of the detainees were not released. KUPWARA, India Kashmir election turnout beats expectation Voters in Kashmir defied threats by Muslim militants and turned out in greater numbers than expected yesterday for state elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir, electoral officials said. Though one civilian was killed and there were scattered acts of violence, thou- sands of soldiers were deployed across the Himalayan province and the separatists failed to significantly disrupt the voting. Kashmir, a flashpoint between India and Pakistan for five decades, had seen increasingly bloody attacks in recent weeks, with militants opposed to the election - and in favor of independence or union with Pakistan - stepping up their campaigns. The militants have threatened to kill anyone who participates in the vote, which will be held over four days stretching into October. No results are expected to be made public until Oct. 12. The relatively high turnout of 44 percent reported yesterday by elections officials - intelligence officials had anticipated a 35 percent showing -- may partly be in response to separatists who ran as independent candidates. In legislative elections in 1996, voter turnout was reported at 54 percent, but that figure is widely believed to have been inflated. LAST DAY for fifty percent reduction of tuition for complete from fall term. 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Shezdi, 40, wants financial compen- sation. She and thousands of South African victims of apartheid, backed by a couple of high-powered U.S. attor- neys, want to sue American and Euro- pean companies that they claim propped up the apartheid regime. On behalf of more than 5,000 apartheid victims, New Jersey attorney Ed Fagan has filed suit in federal District Court in Manhattan, alleging that 27 multinational corporations - including Credit Suisse, Citigroup, IBM and Gen- eral Motors - violated a U.N. embargo against South Africa in the 1980s to con- duct business with the apartheid regime. SEAfTLE Muscular Dystrophy therapy helped mice The crippling effects of muscular dystrophy were partially corrected in laboratory mice by the insertion of a new gene that restored to the muscles a protein lacking in victims of the fatal disease. Researchers at the University of Washington at Seattle, fused a gene that makes a muscle chemical with a modified virus and injected the combination into the hind leg mus- cles of mice that havea disorder that mimics Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Within a month, the test mice had a 40 percent improvement in muscle action compared to muscular dystro- phy mice that received no injection, said Christiana DelloRusso, lead author of the study that appears in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. WASHINGTON Voters split on who should win Congress Registered voters trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle military matters andthe fight against terrorism but are evenly split on which party can best handle the economy, according to an Associated Press poll. 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