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Belliraj: I Delivered Bin Laden’s Letters

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Abdelkader Belliraj, the Moroccan suspected of being terror cell leader, has acknowledged holding talks with Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri before 9/11 on a new strategy for operating sleeper cells.

He also said that he had met with an Al-Qaeda emissary in Europe and given him letters from bin Laden on structural change in Al-Qaeda and on the Salafi Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) joining Al-Qaeda.

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, August 27, 2008

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