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...issued another alert about possible terrorism attacks, but this time quietly. Law-enforcement sources tell TIME the bureau has sent word to its field offices and 56 federal terrorism task forces that they should advise local officials to tighten security around large apartment buildings, as well as busy malls, supermarkets and restaurants. The alert is a response to statements made by captured bin Laden aide Abu Zubaydah. According to sources, Abu Zubaydah told interrogators that al-Qaeda operatives were discussing attacks on "soft targets," meaning nongovernmental buildings and places where large numbers of Americans gather. Although investigators remain leery...
...Bitter irony alert: Boto later started a profitless digital animation business, run by the son of chairman Kao, Francis Kao. If manufacturing is spun off, the dud animation unit is all shareholders will wind up owning. "What do these guys know about the animation business?" says Webb. "This is not what we invested in." Webb and Mobius are leading a group of independent shareholders to vote down the deal...
...first foreign leader to call the White House after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. With the President circling 35,000 ft. above Florida aboard Air Force One, Rice took the call. Putin said he knew U.S. forces were being placed on high alert but that he would order his own military to stand down - a break from cold war tradition, when any escalation of military activity by one side was seen as a potentially hostile move by the other. "It was a metaphor for the changed nature of the relationship," says Rice. "For the next several...
...publishing industry is gearing up for its big fall season. BookExpo America (BEA) was held ten days ago at New York's Javits Center; catalogs, galleys and press kits are flooding in. Over the next few weeks, we'll alert you to some of the big fall titles. Here are some of the standouts from BookExpo...
...surprised us, plain and simple, with a planes-as-missiles tactical leap. "There's been a long-standing awareness in the intelligence community, shared with the president, about the potential for bin Laden to have hijacking in the traditional sense," Fleischer said. Bush, he added, put out a secret alert based on the information the administration had, which wasn't much. Added Rice Thursday: "The government did everything that it could - in a period in which the information was very generalized, in which there was nothing specific in which to react - and had this president known of something more specific...