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...What has made the fatigue all the more acute is that before September 11th, the Bush team was just getting ready to lean back in the old soft chair. The president had taken his nearly one month vacation in August and a White House is never more relaxed than when the boss is out of town. Successful progress on several pieces of key legislation and a competent handling of the question of federal funding for stem cell research (they'd love such "hard" decisions like that now) had everyone feeling pretty good about finally knowing how to work the place...
...names of those few who remain suspicious are well known. They are the ones who aren't talking. Zacarias Moussaoui, for example, was arrested in August on immigration charges after he expressed interest in learning how to maneuver but not land planes. It turns out that French officials have long believed Moussaoui was connected to terrorist groups. The FBI would also like more information from Ayub Khan and Mohammed Azmath, who were arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 12 with hair dye and thousands of dollars in cash in their possession. They had taken a train from St. Louis...
...Malaysia's reluctance to act on the issue has already chilled relations with Australia. Prime Minister John Howard said the United Nations should get tough with countries such as Malaysia that allow refugees to use them as a stepping-stone. That comment was sparked by an incident in August in which Australia refused entry to 460 refugees, mainly Afghans, aboard the cargo ship Tampa. Like the hundreds who drowned off Java, many of the refugees aboard the Tampa had passed through Malaysia on their way to Indonesia to board the ship. There has been talk in recent weeks in Kuala...
...republican resolve started to crack seriously in August, after three I.R.A. suspects were arrested leaving an area of Colombia controlled by rebel guerrillas. The U.S. government, which had played an active but neutral role in the peace process, turned frosty at the idea that the I.R.A. might be involved in terrorism in America?s backyard. Weak denials from republicans were not accepted, and a few weeks later, as a Dublin official put it, "the world turned. Sept. 11 changed the game." After the Twin Towers fell, international distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters became thinner. Sinn Fein?s U.S. fund...
...Britain in 1992 and took a degree at London's South Bank University. Earlier this year, he enrolled in an Oklahoma flight school that had been visited by two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and German authorities say he had called the house in Hamburg used by Atta. In August, after suspicious behavior at another flight school in Minnesota, Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. Today he is incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, refusing to speak to investigators. Daoudi, who was picked up in the British town of Leicester, sits silent in a French jail...