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Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge may have George Bush's ear, but he's having trouble getting access to something almost as sought after: the White House Situation Room. Ridge and his staff at the Office of Homeland Security want to use the Sit Room, located in the basement of the White House, for high-level meetings. But the National Security Council considers the facility its own preserve, for monitoring the counterterrorism war in Afghanistan and elsewhere overseas, and is balking at sharing. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has already given up some of her turf; she ceded control over...
...Were they kept close to the armory? I don't know where they were kept. I think they were kept in the basement. Then they stormed out of the basement and stormed the southwest part of the fort where there were six or seven jeeps full of ammunition. That was, in fact, what the Americans were trying to hit. To destroy their supplies [and] provide one almighty explosion that would kill a lot of them...
...undoubtedly a loner; if he lives with someone, there's almost certainly a place in the house--a basement, maybe, or a garage--that would be off-limits to anyone else. He's got some sort of scientific background and may make his living working in a lab. He doesn't like confrontation, but he's seething with repressed anger. And starting Sept. 11, he became intensely preoccupied--but seemingly not, strangely enough, with the events that gripped the rest of the nation...
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...shelter—which was founded in 1982—operates out of the basement of the Lutheran church at 66 Winthrop Street. Currently about 140 volunteers work dinner, evening, overnight or breakfast shifts, Kuo said...