Sleepers The German Connection
March, 2002
IT WAS EASY FOR TERRORISTS TO AVOID OFFICIAL SCRUTINY BEFORE LAST SEPTEMBER'S ATTACKS. IT STILL IS, AN INSIDE REPORTI'm an Israeli Jew, an army paratrooper veteran of the 1973 Yom Kippur war and other combat. For three years in the late Seventies and early Eighties, I was a detective in Israel's equivalent of the FBI. Mani (his real name doesn't matter) is an Arab, born in Morocco in 1975, who moved to Germany with his family when he was four. He is, among many other things, a devout Muslim. His...