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Probing al-Qaida (al-Libbi connection to 7/7)

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BY KNUT ROYCE
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT; Craig Gordon and Tom Brune of Newsday's Washington Bureau contributed to this story.

July 8, 2005

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence had picked up warnings recently that the al-Qaida terror network or its followers were seeking to duplicate the dramatic 3/11 Madrid train bombings in another European city, two knowledgeable sources said yesterday.
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Some of that information had been culled from a notebook belonging to Abu Faraj al-Libbi, the No.3 official in al-Qaida and the group's operations chief, who was arrested in Pakistan in May, one intelligence source said.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woqaid084335120jul08,0,3030867.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

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