Word: alertness
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...agent. "If he eats with a family in their home, he always swaps his plate with the one given to the head of the house. He only moves at night, and he has a bag of dollars in his car to buy his safety. His guards are always on alert. Some people say he keeps a string of explosives around his waist...
Alarmed at the lab reports, FBI director Bob Mueller sent an urgent alert to the FAA, air-security personnel and the law-enforcement community. He ordered agents based in Europe to find out how Reid had acquired the explosives...
...even have to lock the door?" asked Leavitt. "Is there someone in there with you already?" His questions about the men's room were making me uncomfortable, so I asked Leavitt what John Ashcroft had been expecting last Wednesday when he put the Olympics on extra-super-high alert. "We were already on a heightened level," he said. "But that was the day we put security in front of the rest rooms." He also told me that when Ashcroft came to Salt Lake a few weeks ago to check out the security, he spent an awful lot of time inspecting...
...fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar and to some al-Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan. But he waited days, weeks, months and nobody contacted him. It's possible that his letters never got to CIA agents inside the embassy. Security at the US embassy compound is on a war alert, with snipers on the roofs and trip flares in the garden. Inside, disorganization reigns. The Marine anti-terrorist soldiers at the gate with their walkie-talkies can never track down any of the diplomats inside. The embassy can't get through to the U.S. military base at Bagram on their sat-phones...
...with a hand grenade as security forces moved in to capture him in a suburb of the capital, Sana'a. Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada was also wanted in connection with the Oct. 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Earlier in the week, the fbi issued a terror alert identifying 17 al-Qaeda suspects, six of whom were found to be in jail in Yemen...