-Caveat Lector- Looks like Clinton's "Monica Missiles" are Bin Laden's most effective recruiters. Bombs away! flw © Back with a vengeance: Bin Laden is training recruits to unleash a fresh wave of terror against the West by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark Peshawar THE world's most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, is preparing for war. Four months after the United States launched cruise missile attacks on his camps in Afghanistan, Bin Laden has rebuilt his "terrorist universities" and is constructing bomb-proof headquarters in a cave beyond the reach of spy satellites in the Pamir mountains in the north of the country. Despite a $5m (£3m) bounty offered by America, Bin Laden, 43, has created an expanded network of ideological recruitment centres, military training camps and weapon stores. Washington has issued a 235-count indictment against Bin Laden and attempted to sequestrate his assets, but the Saudi fugitive is remobilising Al Qaida, his terrorist organisation, which has been accused of bombing American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, killing more than 250 people. In the past few months, Bin Laden's agents are believed to have stolen scores of passports and travel documents in London and other western European cities - apparently for use in future operations - while hundreds of new recruits from North Africa, the Middle East and Bosnia have been smuggled into his bases. Intelligence and diplomatic sources in Pakistan fear that Al Qaida may be about to send teams of militants on missions to bomb American targets in the Middle East - a risk that has increased with the bombing of Iraq."The training of Islamic radicals has been fully reactivated inside Afghanistan," a Pakistani intelligence source said last week. "We believe Bin Laden may use the month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend, as the starting point for new operations." Bin Laden is said to have told a senior member of the Taliban, the Islamic fundamentalist group that rules most of Afghanistan, that Al Qaida is "preparing to act". On August 20, 75 cruise missiles were fired from USS Abraham Lincoln, a carrier in the Arabian Sea, striking two of six militant training camps in the Khost region of eastern Afghanistan, a desert of flinty mountains and barren valleys. The attack destroyed the Al-Badr II camp, believed to have been run by Bin Laden, and Amir Muawiya camp, used by Harakat-ul-Ansar (HUA), a terrorist group. Bin Laden was hundreds of miles to the south. "What America does not appreciate is that it takes very little time to build these camps," said Bakhat Zamin, a fundamentalist commander in Khost. "All one needs are mud and stones and there are plenty of them out here." There are also plenty of willing recruits. At Edak, a lawless Pakistani frontier town in the lap of the Toba Kakar Mountains, where automatic weapons are worn like fashion accessories, Islamic scholars at the Nizamiah college said representatives from HUA and Al Qaida had been regular visitors in recent months. "They are recruiting for a new jihad," said a student in a white turban. "Two hundred boys have already gone from here." Nearby camps, just over the Afghan border at Khwaja Mastoon Ghundai and Sati Kundao, have been built in weeks and are well hidden in valleys protected by checkpoints and hillside command posts. Hundreds of men are being drilled at each base. They are taught in brick and mud barracks and sleep in canvas tents, despite extreme weather. Classroom posters depict men with AK-47s, standing before burning American, Israeli and Indian flags. Behind the bases, large boulders are painted with Urdu and Arabic slogans: "Victory is at hand." Those chosen to fight undergo a 21-day "foundation" course in light-weapon training and a short period of khidmat duty, or administration work, in their home towns before being cleared for transfer to the camps. Most have come from Pakistan and Kashmir. One teenager, given the name Khalid by the camp commandant, said: "After prayers at dawn we must run up and down the mountains before breakfast. Later we attend lectures on Islamic affairs and take part in practical demonstrations in the use of artillery." The new camps are part of a sophisticated network established by Bin Laden in northern and eastern Afghanistan. Two other Al Qaida training camps have opened in recent weeks. The Tora Bora base, near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, has been rebuilt on the site of a camp first constructed by the American Central Intelligence Agency in the early 1980s. The second is understood to have been built from scratch at Galrez, a town 30 miles west of Kabul. However, Bin Laden's most startling new asset is a command and control centre for Al Qaida. It is still under construction in a natural cave system in Kunduz province, near the border with Tajikistan. "The cave facilities are impervious to missile attacks and satellite observation," an American diplomat said. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) has identified Zainul Abideen, a 38-year-old bespectacled Palestinian with a closely cropped beard who is known as "the schoolteacher", as the figure responsible for moving men and money into the new facilities. For the past six weeks ISI has been conducting a series of secret raids in the northern city of Peshawar. It found safe houses being used by Abideen as transit and supply centres, and men from Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Bosnia were arrested carrying stolen and forged travel documents. "The region has never been more unstable," said an ISI source. "Bin Laden has never been more dangerous." 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