[Mb-civic] Al Qaeda Leaders Seen in Control - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Al Qaeda Leaders Seen in Control
Experts Say Radicals In London, Egypt May Have Followed Orders

By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 24, 2005; Page A01

LONDON, July 23 -- The back-to-back nature of the deadly attacks in 
Egypt and London, as well as similarities in the methods used, suggests 
that the al Qaeda leadership may have given the orders for both 
operations and is a clear sign that Osama bin Laden and his deputies 
remain in control of the network, according to interviews with 
counterterrorism analysts and government officials in Europe and the 
Middle East.

<>Investigators on Saturday said that they believed the details of the 
bombing plots in Egypt and Britain -- the deadliest terrorist strikes in 
each country's history -- were organized locally by groups working 
independently of each other. In Sharm el-Sheikh, where the death toll 
rose to 88 people, attention centered on an al Qaeda affiliate blamed 
for a similar attack last October at Taba, another Red Sea resort. In 
London, where 52 bystanders were killed in the subway and on a bus, 
police have identified three of the four presumed suicide bombers as 
British natives with suspected connections to Pakistani radicals.

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