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...were lucky on Sept. 11: the most serious attack occurred in the one American place - downtown Manhattan - where cops and fire fighters are routinely trained to deal with catastrophe. Next time we might not be so lucky. Next time it might be anthrax in Las Vegas or a dirty bomb in Disney World. Next time the first response may be utter chaos. The unthinkable looms, and we seem incapable of thinking about...
...sounds persuasive, but Washington doesn't have a flawless track record on making such intelligence allegations stick. For example, last fall the CIA pointed to satellite snaps of construction under way at the al Tuwaitha complex near Baghdad as proof that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear-bomb plant. After 12 visits there sampling the soil, testing equipment and checking for radiation, the inspectors could detect no nuclear developments. At three other sites that the U.S. said were resuming production of chemical and biological agents, repeated inspections showed the plants were either inoperative or producing something other than microbes. The Administration...
...Congolese officials said 16 people died of the incurable disease Ebola. The victims apparently contracted the virus from eating infected gorillas. Moscow President Pervez Musharraf became the first Pakistani leader in 33 years to travel to the Russian capital, where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin. Bogota A bomb ripped through a social club in the Colombian capital, killing at least 30 people and raising fears that leftist rebels were fulfilling a pledge to attack the country's élite. Mecca Saudi officials vowed to use "an iron fist" against any terrorists who try to disrupt the hajj...
...stirring upset before the home crowds over heavily favored Australia. Most of the upset so far, though, centers on the eight opening-round matches scheduled to be played in Zimbabwe and Kenya. New Zealand refused to play in Kenya, citing security concerns stemming from last year's suicide bomb attack on a Mombasa tourist hotel, and warnings of possible further terrorist actions. And, up to opening day, the English and Australian teams were still discussing the possibility of refusing to play in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has become an international pariah because of his repressive regime. Government officials protest...
...When it comes to the risky work of planting lethal substances or detonating bombs, Saddam is not likely to expose his few trained agents. In the past, says an FBI veteran, "They've used people who are expendable" - and amateurish. During the Persian Gulf war, two Iraqi students blew themselves up trying to bomb a US Information Service building in Manila. FBI laboratory scientists who examined an unexploded bomb recovered in 1991 from the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Jakarta, a second device intercepted by Turkish authorities and a third bomb seized in April, 1993, by Kuwaiti police when they...