The United States was especially eager to apprehend him because he was understood to be one of the few Qaeda leaders to know the identities of the thousands of terrorist recruits who passed through the network's training camps.
Investigators say he also trains terrorist recruits in handling explosives, and investigators say he trained several of the hijackers at bin Laden camps in Afghanistan.
The Daily Telegraph has disclosed this week how terrorist recruits from across Africa and the Middle East flocked to London to claim asylum.
Springmann claims that these applicants were in fact, terrorist recruits of Osama Bin Laden, who were being sent to the United States in order to obtain training from the C.I.A..
Pictures of forces taking a Falluja mosque will no doubt spur a surge of Islamic terrorist recruits, who won't be fooled by the marines' new camouflage: their Iraqi vanguard.
Most of the terrorist recruits are Indonesian, and are being sent by Jemaah Islamiyah, which also attacked the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in August 2003.
Democrats will argue that harsh conditions at Guantánamo have made the prison a rallying cry for new terrorist recruits.
Finally, helping Islamic countries solve their economic and social problems will help dry up the reservoir of terrorist recruits.
But terrorist recruits are often unemployed males.
And does anyone believe that the Iraq war will result in a decrease in terrorist recruits?