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Bombay's international airport is named after Chhatrapati Shivaji Muharaj, a 17th century King of the Marathas of western India remembered in history for his fight against the Muslim Mughal rulers. That's one air terminal that should be avoided by Professor James W. Laine, the American author of a 2003 book on Shivaji. An Indian edition published last summer inflamed Hindu fanatics, culminating in January in the ransacking of a research institute Laine thanked in the book and the banning of the tome by the state of Maharashtra. Last week the state government pressed criminal charges against the Macalaster...
...Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape of Koranic verses recited in Arabic. That discovery harked back to the hours after the attacks in New York City and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, when a rental car was found in the parking lot of Boston's Logan airport containing flight manuals in Arabic. That vehicle was the start of the trail that led American investigators to al-Qaeda. The van in Alcala de Henares was another piece of evidence that pointed to Islamic radicals rather than Basque terrorists...
...threat facing the U.S. as Clinton left office. Rice thought China was. What were President Bush's priorities? Was he aware of the Berger briefing? Did he consider an aggressive response to the bombing of the Cole or to the al-Qaeda millennium plot directed at Los Angeles International Airport--which was foiled on Dec. 14, 1999? Did he have any al-Qaeda strategy at all? Rice, who has not yet testified under oath, decided to review counterterrorism policy; the review wasn't completed until Sept. 4. A related question along the same lines: Why didn't you deploy...
...hour flight from Los Angeles to London, a five-hour jaunt to Jordan and then a 90-minute hop across the desert to the Iraqi capital. It is that final leg that gives Mulhern a taste of what lies ahead. As the pilot begins his descent into Baghdad airport (put your tray tables in their locked-and-loaded position), he takes the plane into a maneuver called "the corkscrew," a tight downward spiral from about 1,000 ft.--in theory, steep enough to throw off the heat-seeking missiles sometimes launched by insurgents below...
...film screenings continues with this romantic comedy (Hugh Grant alert) which tells the vaguely interrelated stories of a dozen or so Londoners as they fall into and out of love. It’s all hopelessly complicated and dreadfully charming and leads up to an uplifting scene in Heathrow Airport that may or may not tie everything together. Hopefully there are still some surprises. Tickets $1. 8 p.m. Science Center...