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...because word went out so quickly from every public official from President Bush on down that there was no evidence of any kind of attack. There was no sign of a bomb or a break-in, and for anyone concerned that it might have been a more subtle, cyberterrorist assault, Michehl Gent, president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), offered soothing words. "It's virtually impossible to get into a system without leaving some tracks," he said...
...terrorism in December 2000, when he is believed to have orchestrated a series of church bombings in eight cities in Indonesia, killing 19. After 9/11, Hambali's profile inside al-Qaeda rose when bin Laden ordered him to launch attacks in Southeast Asia to distract U.S. forces from their assault in Afghanistan, says Abuza. Early last year Hambali met with his lieutenants in Thailand and instructed them to attack soft targets--restaurants, bars and nightclubs frequented by Western tourists. Nine months later, Jemaah Islamiah detonated two bombs at two nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 people, many of them young Australian...
...exact moment the FBI was beaming over Lakhani's arrest, security forces in Saudi Arabia discovered a document indicating that Saudi militants were casing King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in preparation for an attack on a British target. U.S. officials believe that the militants may have planned to assault passengers at the check-in lines or down a plane with a shoulder-fired missile...
...From a business perspective, it's great for the NBA." MARK CUBAN, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, on Kobe Bryant's sexual-assault case...
After a series of altercations around the Boston College campus, Byrne arrested Garett D. Trombly ’03 and several of his friends on the night of Sept. 9, 2001. Trombly, then a Harvard junior concentrating in economics, was charged with public consumption of alcohol, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer...