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...certain Harvard graduate and potential welfare recipient, we headed to the downstairs dining room, where we found ourselves surrounded by black walls with silly, unrelated-to-BBQ, cartoon-like paintings executed in neon colors: A dog with a martini glass talking on his cell phone on the beach? No way! Above us, on the ceiling, were neon green, yellow, orange and red bottles signed by different people. Patrons or employees, perhaps...
Edgar’ first thought was of how his normal routine had been so rudely interrupted: his father was about to go run some errands, he had an exam the following week to prepare for, and he was also planning to go down to the beach with his brother, Victor, later in the day. As the rebels hiding in the hills and stalking the streets continued to fire shots, Edgar stayed with his family inside their house and his thoughts took on a darker dimension. He recalled the many stories he had heard about what the rebels had done...
Edgar, his mother and brother said goodbye to his father and traveled covertly to the beach through the scrub, watching and listening for rebel soldiers positioned to spy for civilians escaping the country. When they finally got to the beach, the Edgar family met snipers who were poised to protect them as they ran for the boat. “I honestly thought I would never see him [my father] again,” Edgar says, “and I felt worried and guilty at the same time about leaving...
...steps of the hijackers in their final days and hours. Boston seems to have served as a forward staging area, a big city where the terrorists could vanish in the large Arab population. Three times last month Atta rented cars from Warrick's Rent-a-Car in Pompano Beach and checked one back in with 2,000 miles on the odometer. He brought the last one back Sept. 9. Parking-lot cameras picked up a white Mitsubishi sedan leased from an Alamo franchise that had gone in and out of Boston's Logan Airport five times between Sept...
...rather than nationalistic, it can recruit anywhere from the disaffected among the world's 1 billion Muslims. That's why top-quality surveillance and policing are as much a part of the fight against terrorism as anything armies might do. You can't lob a cruise missile at Delray Beach, Fla., or dispatch a Delta Force squad to Fort Lee, N.J.--though both towns seem to have been home, at least for a while, to some of those who hijacked the planes last week...