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...claimed to have found it in a safe house. When Padilla traveled to Egypt in May 2002, U.S. officials were hot on his tracks. They followed him on a flight to Zurich, and then to Chicago. On May 8, as he left the plane at O'Hare International Airport, customs agents pulled him aside and passed him to the FBI for questioning. He was allegedly carrying $10,000 in cash, a cell phone and a book containing numbers of al-Qaeda contacts...
...Hours before the competing rallies, local officials used shipping containers and tanker-trucks to barricade all the city's major roads and intersections, blocking access to and from Karachi's Quaide Azam International Airport. Hundreds of young Musharraf supporters, many of them armed with handguns and automatic weapons, then surrounded the majestic pink-stone building of the Sindh High Court where the Chief Justice had been expected to address the legal fraternity. The mob attacked anyone wearing black trousers, a white shirt and a black jacket - the dress code of Pakistan's courtroom lawyers...
...Hardly a thing of beauty, the pier was designed for the official reception of British dignities that had flown in to Hong Kong's old airport, and then boarded a ferry to the heart of the city. And it hasn't hosted a British pooh-bah since shortly after midnight on July 1, 1997, when Prince Charles and Hong Kong's last British governor, Chris Patten, sailed away, having handed back the former colony to China...
...People who are going to the jihad in Iraq are from as far away as Morocco, and their favorite transit point is the Damascus airport," says a senior U.S. official. Syrian officials counter that the U.S. can't close its own borders with Mexico and Canada. But Rice and her team pointed out that the Syrian government is one of the few that doesn't demand that visitors from other Arab nations obtain visas to enter their territory. Moreover, says a U.S. official, "We're not asking them to do us any favors. We believe they understand that being...
...Foreign Minister Moallem seemed to agree with those arguments during the meeting with Rice in Egypt, U.S. officials say, but he made no commitment to shut down what one U.S. official calls "the intake valve" at the airport. If that happens, the next meeting could include snapshots...