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...figures actually issues specific attack orders to adherents. Ressam told investigators the al-Qaeda operatives are rarely given detailed instructions. Rather, they are trained and then sent out to almost autonomous cells to act on their own, to plan attacks and raise their own funds, often using credit-card scams to load up on money, despite the Islamic prohibition against theft. Bin Laden, whose general practice is to praise terror attacks but disclaim any direct connection to them, has said, "Our job is to instigate...
...some success in cutting him off from his assets. Al-Qaeda gets funds from sympathizers in oil-rich gulf states and from otherwise legitimate Islamic charities. Recently it has turned more to criminal sources, including arms dealing. Cells have been forced to use petty theft, credit-card fraud and other scams to finance themselves...
...database. "Terrorists aren't born overnight. They are indoctrinated, schooled," says Joseph Atick, founder of Visionics, which has deployed its technology at an Iceland airport, at English stadiums to keep out soccer hooligans and, controversially, this summer in the entertainment district of downtown Tampa, Fla. "Somebody checks your credit card when you buy something. Why can't we check if you're a terrorist or not when you're boarding a plane?" Unfortunately, after last week, that's one more question Americans wish they knew the answer...
...long rates stay down, millions of homeowners will get a chance to refinance mortgages and cut their monthly costs. Many will take out cash when they refinance and use it to pay off credit-card debt or start a home improvement. The jobless rate, while a point higher than it was last October, remains remarkably low--just below the 5% considered "full employment" only a few years ago. Inflation remains tame. And the dollar, weaker last week against the yen and the euro, will make U.S. exports more attractive...
Civil libertarians expect renewed calls for a national identification card. The cards could have photographs and hard-to-falsify identifying information like handprint or retina data that could be read by scanners at, say, airline counters. If cards were required for many common transactions--renting a car, buying an airline ticket--they would be useful for keeping track of criminals and terrorists. Or you. Eva Jefferson Paterson, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights Under Law in San Francisco, predicts that innocent citizens would be challenged constantly to produce their cards. "You could be stopped by the police...