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Terrorism experts figure that al-Qaeda might have similar problems; even if it got its supplies from a pariah like Saddam Hussein, it would have to find a way to deliver them. Officials know that hijacker Mohamed Atta asked about crop dusters before the Sept. 11 attacks. And a Delray Beach, Fla., drugstore owner says a man resembling Atta showed up at his store in late August seeking treatment for a burning sensation on his abnormally red hands. But none of this is conclusive...
...cold eye on Iraq, which experts believe has stockpiled as much anthrax as any other nation on Earth--except possibly Russia--is not merely an automatic response to threatening times. Intelligence reports indicate that an Iraqi agent has met with an associate of Osama bin Laden. Also, Mohamed Atta, the Sept. 11 hijacker, reportedly had a June 2000 encounter with an Iraqi operative in Prague. There is as yet no evidence linking Iraq to the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, but with four verified exposures to anthrax in the U.S. and a highly unstable situation in the Middle East...
...investigators now believe few if any accomplices were in the country for significant periods before Sept. 11. And they are a long way from piecing together exactly how the attacks on Sept. 11 occurred. Last week the FBI office in Boston released a time line and photos of Atta and another hijacker as they visited Portland, Maine, the night before the hijackings. Agents are eager to find out why the pair went to Portland before flying to Boston (where they boarded one of the World Trade Center missions) and whether they met with anyone there, perhaps someone who drove down...
...TERRORIST AS A YOUNG MAN Nothing in Mohamed Atta's college years in Cairo prepared his friends for his nightmarish final act on Sept. 11. Five of Atta's college friends spoke exclusively to TIME's Amany Radwan in Cairo, trying to understand what turned an awkward, sensitive, frustrated young man into a fanatical mass murderer. time.com/atta...
...This is what Mohamed Atta and his fellow terrorists and sponsors have done to Islam and its community worldwide by their murder of innocents at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The attacks must be condemned, and the condemnation must be without reservation. The foremost religious authorities are outraged and have issued statements denouncing the monstrous murders. All efforts to punish the perpetrators must be supported...