Word: arizona
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State V. sets up its cameras in the opposite camp, with Arizona defense lawyers, but it also gives airtime to prosecutors and, most important, jurors. It's a bit stiffer than Crime, with conventional news narration by Cynthia McFadden, but it's as interesting and better balanced. And it will almost certainly do worse in the ratings. Why? It's on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. E.T.--opposite Law & Order. And Americans will take a fictional prosecution, even in reruns, over a real defense any day. --By James Poniewozik
...interview, Bakri named Soubra the al Muhajiroun "leader" in Arizona but denied that Soubra had any links to al-Qaeda or bin Laden. (Soubra is not enrolled for the summer session at Embry-Riddle; efforts to contact him were unsuccessful.) Bakri said he thought bin Laden is "a great man; he stands for the truth, as far as Muslims are concerned," but insisted he himself did not support the Sept. 11 attacks...
PHOENIX Hijacker Hani Hanjour lived in Arizona for years (in February 2001, the FAA questioned him). On July 10, 2001, FBI agent Ken Williams sent HQ his now famous memo proposing a sweep of Middle Eastern students at flight schools...
...Homeland Security under congressional oversight. And Lieberman's long-ignored proposal for a commission to investigate Sept. 11 became a rallying point for Democrats in the flood of revelations that the FBI had missed clues on terrorism. Within the party, all this seems to be playing well. In Arizona, an early 2004 primary state, Democratic spokeswoman Dianna Jennings says, "There's a sense among party activists that what he's doing on the 9/11 stuff is right on." --By Karen Tumulty
That may well spawn other reforms, such as allowing Cuba access to U.S. credit to buy American food and medicine. "U.S. business, tourism and farm-state politics are overtaking Miami politics on this issue," says Flake, an Arizona Republican. Florida political analysts say the Bushes want to maintain a hard line, at least until the gubernatorial election in November. But with even Fidel turning against the embargo, the Bush brothers may have less time than they thought. --With reporting by Dolly Mascarenas/Havana