8A= THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WORLD
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 2002
Despite numerous arrests many detainees released
The Associated Press
In the days after Sept. 11, U.S. allies rounded up hundreds of people, cracked down on assets and individuals that Washington suspected of financing terrorist activities and tightened security around American installations.
The efforts and unprecedented coordination with the United States uncovered and likely thwarted plots — including those allegedly orchestrated by Osama bin Laden's foot soldiers — to attack U.S. interests in 14 countries. More than 100 suspects are in custody around the world and authorities have frozen more than $100 million in assets. Experts say the unrelenting pressure complemented U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan to keep al-Qaida on the run.
But six months after the terror attacks on the United States, few of those arrested have been
charged and many have been let go. Experts said they thought that efforts on the financial front no longer hindered al-Qaida's abilities to operate.
Of those known to be in custody on terrorism-related suspicions outside the United States, 11 men have been publicly tied to Sept. 11 — nine in Spain, one in Germany and one in Malaysia. Zacarias Moussouai, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, also has been indicted in the United States in connection with the attacks.
An Algerian pilot who British prosecutors first said had trained several of the hijackers was released on bail in London in February after U.S. officials conceded they could not back up the charges.
An additional 91 men are known to be held in 11 countries, either in connection with al-Qaida or planned terrorist attacks. A U.S. official, who spoke on defense of anonymity, said most suspect<sup>e</sup>
"are believed to remain in custody of foreign governments."
Some of those were picked up as part of investigations initiated before Sept. 11 and are connected to attacks that were thwarted in the past two years. Those include a threat to the U.S. Embassy in Rome in January 2001 and a cathedral in Strasbourg, France — home of the European Parliament — in December 2000.
Saudi Arabia is holding 30 men who it says spent time in Afghanistan. Canada is holding the only suspect, who the United States is trying to extradite, a Somali-born man wanted on suspicion of involvement in laundering money for terrorists.
In the past six months, more than $104 million in funds allegedly tied to terrorist-related groups and individuals have been blocked worldwide, including $34 million by the United States, U.S. officials said.
Countries clash over Caspian oil
Associated Press
MOSCOW — The U.S. envoy to the strategic Caspian Sea region yesterday decried the corruption that has stymied investors trying to get its oil and gas riches to market — while his Iranian counterpart warned that foreign investors were too aggressive already.
Opinions clashed at a conference in Moscow on the 10-year-old legal dispute over how to divide the sea, highlighting differences in the political interests of Moscow, Tehran and the West.
Russia's top official in charge of Caspian issues, Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny, said it was time to end the dispute. He said plans were under way for an oft-delayed presidential summit in the Caspian, likely to be held in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashga-
bat, in the fall.
Use of the Caspian resources, including fertile fishing grounds and what are believed to be the world's third-largest oil deposits was defined by treaties between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After the 1991 Soviet collapse, the five countries around the Caspian — Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakstan and Azerbaijan — laid conflicting claims to the sea. They have been unable to reach a compromise.
U. S. and other foreign investors, meanwhile, have been jockeying for a chance to develop oil and gas fields despite the legal limbo.
"The Caspian region has not had the progress we expected," Ambassador Steven Mann, the U.S. envoy on Caspian energy issues, told the conference. He said corruption had hindered growth in the five states and a lack
of legal guarantees had scared away investors.
Mann did, however, express optimism about two projects in the region. Construction on an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan's capital Baku to the Turkish port of Ceyhan should begin by early summer, he said. The long-delayed pipeline bypasses Russia and Iran and has been championed by the U.S.government.
He also said the Shah Deniz gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey remained on track. Both pipelines will be operating by 2005, he said.
2006, Iran's envoy for the Caspian region, Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari, told the conference that foreign companies and governments should not be allowed to study the region's oil deposits until a decision on dividing the sea is reached.
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