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...They carried different passports--Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon--and perhaps pledged fealty to different radical factions. What brought them together was first a hatred of America for causing their resentments and frustrations, and then someone who knew how to transform their rage into bloody results. Osama bin Laden may be the top general in charge, but who are the field lieutenants? Even usually placid FBI officers called their search squads "frenzied" as they hunted last week for shadow figures who might be involved. To underscore the broad reach, at New York's Kennedy Airport Thursday, 10 people...
...move in and around the U.S. without attracting notice. This is especially remarkable since several of them, sources tell TIME, were already on FBI watch lists. Toward the end of 1999, the CIA received sketchy information connecting two of the dead hijackers--Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi--to bin Laden's organization. Officials tell TIME the CIA information was considered too vague to pass along, but by this summer those suspicions had firmed up. There was no indication of the plot they had in mind, but there were strong hints of links to bin Laden associates, including a connection...
Investigators don't know how much the suicide pilots knew about their confederates before they gathered Tuesday morning at their assigned planes--or if they knew others would undertake similar missions. But preliminary information suggests that the cells followed classic bin Laden practice: over time, cell members built up a small local support network to collect information, rent houses, buy equipment for the "sleeper" operatives while they waited to be activated. As happened with the East Africa embassy bombings, agents think only a few superior handlers--a Commander X or two--sent perhaps by HQ at the penultimate moment, knew...
Nearly everyone in Washington has all but concluded the whorls and ridges belong to bin Laden. President Bush named him the "prime suspect" on Saturday. When you look at the point of this attack, who better does it serve? The faceless enemy needs no claim of responsibility to get his message across; he has no agenda that can be met. What he wants is to make a statement: to carry out attacks to prove that he can. What better recruiting poster than that searing image of a plane shearing through the south tower: it tells the faithful, Look...
...discovery has added to concerns among government counterterrorism experts that the bin Laden conspirators may have been planning - or may still be planning -to disperse biological or chemical agents from a cropdusting plane normally used for agricultural purposes...