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...blamed by the Americans for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Israeli intelligence tells Time the captured captain of the ship, Omar Akawi, a maritime adviser to the Palestinian Transportation Ministry, identified a photo of Bassem as that of the man who delivered the cargo. Akawi also confessed to Israeli interrogators that the weapons were intended...
Last week, Israeli security forces seized a boat in the Red Sea loaded with a deadly cargo of weaponry. At a moment when the Middle East is perilously balanced on the verge of open war, this development threatens to remove even the region’s thin veneer of peace. Reports that the 80 tons of weapons, including long-range rockets, were purchased by the Palestinian Authority (PA) support the repeated claims of the Israeli government that PA Chair Yasser Arafat is a dangerous man, ready and willing to resort to terrorism to achieve his aims...
...check by January 18th, 2002. That's an optimistic assessment. Experts predict that while more bags certainly will be screened in the New Year, it's not clear exactly when we can expect all bags to be funneled through high-resolution x-ray machines before being loaded into a cargo hold...
...able to exercise that love by constantly cruising the Mediterranean coast of France in an 11-m cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez long before tourism did, and built there a big rambling house, La Hune, which was his base and which still, happily, belongs to his descendants...
Afghanistan was such a cozy home base for al-Qaeda. The network enjoyed luxuries like its own air-shuttle service, using the national airline Ariana to ship terrorist cargo and personnel, including Osama bin Laden's bodyguards and their families, between Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf or East Africa. Sometimes al-Qaeda agents would even slip in and out of other countries disguised as Ariana flight attendants, according to aviation sources...