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FRANCE Terror Setup A French-Algerian airport baggage handler, suspected of being a terrorist when he was arrested after weapons and explosives were found in the boot of his car, was released from jail. Police say he was the victim of a setup. Abderazak Besseghir argued that he was being framed by the family of his late wife, a claim substantiated when a witness who told police he saw Besseghir handling the guns in the car park of Charles de Gaulle airport admitted to being part of a plot to implicate...
...Numbers 418 kilometers per hour was the top speed achieved by Shanghai's "magnetic levitation" train during its maiden run between the city and Pudong airport last week...
...Ostend for inspection. Luckily, little of its cargo, 70,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil, had leaked. BOSNIA Changing the Guard In its first overseas security operation, the E.U. officially took over the U.N.'s decade-long peacekeeping role. The NATO-led Stabilization Force handed control of Sarajevo airport to Bosnian authorities. A 500-strong E.U. Police Mission (EUPM) assumed the U.N.'s mandate of reforming and monitoring the local police force and ensuring that none of its 16,000 members are war criminals. The EUPM mandate will continue until 2005, at a cost of €38 million...
...fray to want to punish her. She had no appointments; she just wandered around until she found their offices, getting lost at least once. Then she walked outside and hailed a cab. "I went, 'Whew!' and collapsed in the back seat," Rowley remembers. She headed back to the airport, secure in the comfort that comes from taking a steaming load of worry and shifting it onto the boss's lap. Says her husband: "I remember her saying, 'I hope somebody reads...
...still be true that no one could have prevented the attacks of Sept. 11, but the past year has shown that the FBI and the CIA overlooked vital clues and held back data from each other. No matter how many new missile systems the Pentagon deploys or which new airport screening systems are adopted, if we can't trust the institutions charged with tracking terrorists to do the job, homeland defense will be an empty phrase. The Coleen Rowleys of the federal workforce will be the ones who will let us know what's going...