Word: agente
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...still so seared in our minds here at Time that all the months after that seem to have flashed by. Over the past 12 months, we have run 21 covers devoted to 9/11 and its consequences, ranging from anthrax to Afghanistan, from George W. Bush to a prescient FBI agent in Minnesota named Coleen Rowley. In each case we tried to give you a front-row seat to history, breaking news and making sense out of tumult...
...Zinner: At this point there is no specific anti-viral agent proven to be clinically effective against West Nile virus. There are a few candidates, and while they've only just begun clinical trials, the prospect for future vaccines or treatments is good...
...telling allegation, made again last week by New York Times columnist William Safire, is that Saddam secretly runs Ansar. According to Safire's unsourced pronouncement, a Saddam intelligence operative and a senior bin Laden agent helped coordinate an assault by Ansar militants to assassinate the secular, pro-American Kurdish leadership last year. Both, he claimed, were captured when Kurdish forces put down the revolt. Safire also fingered Saddam's agents as the men behind Ansar's crude attempts to make poison weapons that drew Pentagon attention...
...hawks point to another piece of circumstantial evidence. Since last fall the U.S. has tried to confirm a Czech intelligence report that in April 2001, 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague. Both the CIA and FBI have disputed the report. Their research places Atta in Florida two days before the purported meeting, and they could not uncover any travel or financial records to prove Atta had made a quick flight to Prague. But early this month several Pentagon officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, met with the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism...
When it comes to the food, let's just say you might want to fill up before boarding or carry on a picnic. As the economic pressures get fiercer, the quality of the food will get worse and more meals will be cold. Even getting a reservation agent on the phone could get tougher; you can read more of that book while you're on hold...