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Several terrorist operatives were detained by foreign governments, possibly disrupting operations in the Gulf and Italy and perhaps averting attacks against two or three U.S. embassies.
And the LAT also offers more specific details of the protests: 10,000 demonstrators assembled; 15 injured and 20 detained by police.
Both the NYT and the WP (which has been hitting such stories hard lately) report inside that dissidents attempting to register a democratically oriented political party in various parts of China were detained by police.
As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained immediately.
No evidence indicates any such involvement in drug trafficking, and none of the detained al Qaeda operatives has indicated that this was a method of fund-raising.