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Both Mohamed and Al-Fadl are shady witnesses: ex-terrorists and marked men who have betrayed powerful people with long reaches. All that stands between them and a hit man's bullet is the Justice Department, and defense lawyers will try to rattle their credibility by arguing that they will say anything to protect themselves. Of course the U.S. hopes their compelling evidence will convict the four men currently on trial. But the real target is still bin Laden, indicted in November 1998 on 238 counts of conspiracy and still out there, masterminding the unending Jihadist threat of terror. Investigators...
...Kerstin Cameron's legal troubles began on July 4, 1998, when her husband left an Arusha hotel in which he had been drinking heavily and went to visit her and their two young children at their home. A few hours later, he was dead in her bedroom, a bullet in his head. The Tanzanian police twice investigated and twice concluded that Cameron had committed suicide. Two employees of his air-charter company told police he had threatened, in the hours before his death, to blow his brains out. A coroner's report listed suicide as the cause of death...
...nickname that young George didn't attract, at least within his family, was "Junior," and therein lies a bullet dodged, early evidence of Bush's famous good luck. It was the absence of a "Herbert" that permitted Bush to escape the curse of juniorhood, that terrible first act of hostility that certain men commit against their own sons, that row of hoops set up in the nursery for he who would follow. (Attention, newborn: Be me, or fall short--it's up to you.) For the congenitally modest elder Bush, naming a child in honor of himself may have proved...
...this really necessary? Probably not, say experts. For while the British were taken by surprise by the appearance of a new disease, and other European nations were slow to adopt strict precautions, Americans have, by a combination of luck and early preventive action, dodged this deadly bullet...
...culminates in officer-to-officer combat. HUPD has each officer suit up in a facemask, neck protector and bullet-proof vest...