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...role, if any, was intended for Zacarias Moussaoui, arrested in Minnesota in August 2001?) But Mohammed's significance in international terrorism goes far beyond Sept. 11. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official says Mohammed's name came up so often in the communication intercepts that triggered last month's orange alert that he seemed capable of simultaneously orchestrating several different plots in the U.S. and elsewhere. "If I had to choose who was a bigger catch, Osama or Khalid Shaikh," says a senior Pakistani intelligence official, "I'd say Khalid Shaikh...
Iris, meanwhile, is married to Hampton, a fastidious African-American investment banker and a superb provider but one who is ever alert to racial slights, real or imagined, and who looks down his nose a bit at Iris, a bookish idler who can't even settle on a topic for her thesis. She surrenders to adultery in part because Daniel's love promises a refuge from judgments, expectations, even the workaday struggle to be black in a white town. Daniel and Iris are given to reckless sex--in his office, at her house when her husband is away...
...does the U.S. government think it's kidding by declaring an orange-level, high-risk alert [NATION, Feb. 24]? Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's urging Americans to get survival kits, plastic sheeting and duct tape was yet another sad attempt by the Bush Administration to get the American people to support an unjust war by heightening our anxiety. TED KEPES Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...deal with Ridge's rainbow of alarms the same way I handle every other piece of information from this Administration: with extreme skepticism. President Bush will manipulate the alert level as needed to advance his two key goals: centralizing power in the Executive Branch and rewarding the loyal elite. I've been at alert-level red since December 2000 when the Supreme Court decided that Bush would be President. PAUL R. WARD Redlands, Calif...
...police feel about the Alert system? Local law enforcement officials believe the system works, but they say they need more money to implement it successfully. Sensing a need (and a political gold mine), U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kay Bailey Hutchison have introduced legislation to boost funding for training and equipment