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Cairo is one of the world's most crowded, impoverished cities, and by the early '90s, Atta felt the intense pressures on middle-class Egyptians not to slip in social rank. His friend Khalifa says Atta grew frustrated because he was unable to fulfill his academic ambitions in his homeland. He believed that political favoritism at Egyptian universities would keep him from the top spots...
...90s, Atta began disappearing from school for extended periods. He would tell his thesis adviser that he was going to Aleppo, Syria, to work on his thesis. (It explored the conflict between Islam and modernity as reflected in the city's planning, and it won high marks when completed in August 1999.) Atta was away from his job at a Hamburg consultancy for months in 1995; he reportedly said he had gone on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Co-workers recall him condemning terrorist attacks on tourists in Egypt. But he also bemoaned Western influence--specifically, the rise of skyscrapers...
...don’t know how to resist challenges. I remember the stories about your gambling woes in the early ‘90s that support this theory. If the odds are long, you want in. It’s your nature...
...task of writing music that captures the themes of the day. Bob Dylan did it with ?Masters of War.? The Clash did it with albums like ?Sandinista!? and ?Combat Rock.? The political-minded hip-hop metal band Rage Against the Machine was a lonely voice of relevance in the 90s. The new millennium may produce rock, rap and pop that?s equal to the times...
Arrested in August on immigration charges while trying to get jet-simulator training in Minneapolis, Zacarias Moussaoui should have been a warning to feds. A suspected terrorist in his native France, he traveled to Afghanistan in the mid-'90s. The feds wonder if he was supposed to be on Flight 93. He has been flown to New York City for questioning. Khalid Al-Draibi was detained not far from Dulles airport the night of the attacks. He reportedly tried to rush training at flight schools in Alabama and Kansas...