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...Arroyo's woes continued to snowball through the week. On Friday, Samuel Ong, a former deputy director of the National Bureau of Investigation, held a press conference to say he had a copy of the original post-election audio tape which he received from a military intelligence agent. Ong claimed the tape was genuine and incriminating of Arroyo, and after the press conference he hurried to a Catholic seminary for sanctuary. A jittery Jose de Venecia, Speaker of the House of Representatives, told lawmakers they must resist any attempt to bring Arroyo down. "The next few days will be difficult...
...think I'd become bored with the guy. Also, after City Primeval sold to United Artists, I used the same character in my next book, and my agent in Hollywood said, "You've got to change this guy's name because United Artists owns him and if we don't sell the book to UA, we won't be able to sell it." So I changed his name and lightened his mustache...
...meeting with him once. He wanted to know what Be Cool [the sequel to Get Shorty] was about. I said I didn't know yet. So after I finished the book, I kept asking my agent if Travolta had read it, and finally my agent said, "You call him." So after I got his number and he called back after about four days, I said, "Did you read it yet?" He said, "No, but hey, I just bought a 707." So then we had to talk about the plane, you know...
...noticed something troubling about him. He had arrived on a one-way ticket yet carried only $2,800 in cash, barely enough to buy his return. When an official pressed him for details about his destination, al-Qahtani was hostile and evasive. With an interpreter's help, the immigration agent questioned al-Qahtani for 90 min. and then sent him packing. Al-Qahtani's parting words: "I'll be back...
...that imply he has a big story to tell, but interrogators report that he seems either too scared or simply unwilling, to tell it. On Jan. 10, 2003, al-Qahtani says he knows nothing of terrorists but volunteers to return to the gulf states and act as a double agent for the U.S. in exchange for his freedom. Five days later, Rumsfeld's harsher measures are revoked after military lawyers in Washington raised questions about their use and efficacy...