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...have escaped a U.S. bombing raid on the back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka and a 40-motorcycle escort from the airport. "There was so much dust and exhaust kicked up, he couldn't see a thing," recalls a club member. "But we think he appreciated...
...move and dark warnings by grave pundits as the due-date for Iraq's weapons declaration drew near has given way to an increasingly confusing spectacle. First there were those shiny gold CD-ROMs and reams and reams of documentation in Baghdad last Saturday breathlessly followed from airport to airport by 24-hour news TV crews before arriving in New York - where they were promptly snatched in a late-night swoop on UN headquarters by U.S. officials empowered by a last-minute round of diplomatic arm-twisting. Washington had managed to persuade the Permanent Five members of the Security Council...
European investigators are worried that the year-end holiday season will bring another round of al-Qaeda terrorism. Several major year-end assaults have been averted over the past few years, including "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam's foiled plot against the Los Angeles airport in 1999 and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid's bungled effort to bring down a Paris-to-Miami jet last Dec. 22. "Al-Qaeda has attempted attacks during the holiday season since 1999," says a French official, "and we have to assume it'll be the same this year." That concern was reflected in a series...
...been after his plane when crew members spotted two white stripes of smoke streaming past the jet's tail, only 100 yards away. Two shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles had just missed blowing up Marek's plane: the launcher and shell casings were found a mile from the Mombasa airport...
Three days after the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar fell in December last year, I ventured out to an al-Qaeda camp in the pale-gray flatlands behind the airport. This was where Osama bin Laden kept his horses. By the time I got there, the terrorists were long gone. Prowling around the bombed-out stables, I found a pile of dented steel lockers, maybe 30 of them, filled with chunks of lapis lazuli. There were booby traps all over the camp?one of them had blown the head off bin Laden's grazing stallion?but I opened...