While the FBI searched Fadhul's family's houses for explosive residue and other evidence, the Comoran police detained his wife and brother for questioning, the sources said. African media reports have suggested that the terrorists may have smuggled their explosives through Comoros, and one source noted yesterday that there is boat service linking Moroni to Mombasa, Kenya, where Odeh had lived since 1994. In the complaint charging Odeh with 12 counts of murder, one for each American killed in the Nairobi blast, the FBI directly accused al Qaida of planning and carrying out that attack. His name came up repeatedly in the criminal complaints against Odeh and al Owhali, and prosecutors are beginning to consider whether they have enough evidence to charge him with masterminding the bombings. A grand jury in New York has already returned a sealed indictment charging bin Laden with earlier acts of terrorism, according to sources.
Some people think it's completely disorganized.
He's not a Rhodes Scholar. But he does have some organizational skills. The warrant for Fadhul could also bolster American complaints about Sudan, and there has been speculation that one of the suspects in the Dar es Salaam bombing was also living there. The State Department considers Sudan to be a state sponsor of terrorism, and bin Laden, who lived there from 1991 until 1996, maintains a large following of Muslim radicals in Sudan. On Aug. 20, less than two weeks after the embassy bombings, U.S. cruise missiles destroyed a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant that was believed to be producing chemical weapons for bin Laden, along with several Afghan camps described as bin Laden's terrorist training grounds.