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...least one face is familiar to U.S. investigators: Ramzi Binalshibh, a 29-year-old Yemeni who appears wearing a red kaffiyeh, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French operative arrested in August and indicted Dec. 11 for planning terrorist attacks. U.S. officials believe that Binalshibh is a hard-core suicide martyr who wanted to be the 20th hijacker. A member of the Hamburg cell led by Mohammed Atta, he unsuccessfully tried to obtain a visa to enter the U.S. to take flying lessons on four occasions in 2000. He also wired thousands of dollars...
...caps on California energy, of which Enron was a major supplier. Larry Lindsey, Bush's top economic adviser and a former Enron consultant, has battled on free-market grounds to preserve the kind of overseas tax shelters that hid Enron's true financial condition for so long. And in August Lay's backing helped put his friend Patrick Wood at the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, replacing a chairman who had opposed Enron's deregulation timetable...
...comment Saturday on a Washington Post report that military officers in CHINA had removed 27 listening devices from a Boeing 767-300 delivered to President Jiang Zemin in August after it was refitted in Texas. The Chinese allege that the U.S. planted the BUGS, described as highly sophisticated devices capable of being activated by satellite. The Chinese paid $150 million for the now grounded airliner, which was intended to be Jiang's PERSONAL AIRCRAFT. The report promises to complicate U.S.-China relations as Jiang and President Bush prepare for a SUMMIT, scheduled for Feb. 21, in Beijing...
...Baxter, who left Enron last May for the same official reasons Jeff Skilling did in August - "to spend more time with his family" - had complained internally to fellow execs about the company's risky accounting practices, and was mentioned prominently in Sherron Watkins' fiery letter to then-CEO Ken Lay. In other words, it's likely Baxter not only knew about Enron's bad bookkeeping habits, but whose idea they were, who kept them hidden and who, by extension, might deserve to go to jail when Congress, the SEC and the Justice Department finish their scrutiny of the affair...
When former Sen. David H. Pryor became the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) in August 2000, he found it “odd” that an institution encouraging political pursuits did not elect its student leaders...