They're on both sides of the pond; Europe's hunt for al-Qaeda.(Al-Qaeda's European network)(Brief Article)

Economist (US), The, August, 2002

One the Spaniards nabbed

Al-Qaeda's members may be busier in Europe than in America. Catch them, say the Americans. We're trying, say the Europeans, and we know more than you do

ANTI-TERRORIST services have never before been engaged in so widespread an operation across Europe. Even before September 11th, intelligence people on both sides of the Atlantic had been reckoning that Islamic fundamentalists were just as likely, if not more so, to hit targets in Europe. They still think so. Since September 11th, both American and European intelligence services have been trying to unravel al-Qaeda networks in Europe as diligently as in the United States. Where are the terrorists' European lairs? And how successful have the anti-terror teams been in tracking...

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