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Although Voicestream Wireless, the Square’s newest cellular provider, won’t open its Mass. Ave. location for another week, its display of phones already has customers salivating. As assistant manager Joy Tommaro sits on the store’s window seat leafing through papers, curious pedestrians peer through the glass attempting to get a glimpse of the colorful posters and displays inside. One man even breezes in through the open door to examine the rate plans...
Voicestream is the most recent in string of cellular providers who have set up shop in the Square. Within a few blocks of the store are Cingular Wireless, located at 22 Eliot Street, and Sprint PCS, which is at the corner of Church and Brattle Streets. Both stores have had little trouble finding customers, especially the Sprint branch, which has proved to be a goldmine for the company. Mark Duncan, Director of Marketing for New England, couldn’t be more pleased. “We are very happy,” he says...
...case, in the sort of language loved by military folks, in which you just cut off the head of the snake and let the body wither. "Terrorism is not bin Laden," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "He's got lieutenants waiting to succeed him." The cellular, secretive structure of al-Qaeda--small groups of operatives acting almost independently--militates against a quick, decisive strike. Says Ranstorp: "Al-Qaeda is truly a multinational enterprise; they have made it into a decentralized organization that understands the power of asymmetric warfare in overcoming superpower supremacy...
...Kamel and 23 associates were convicted for activities related to association with terrorist enterprises. There was no demonstrative proof of their service or allegiance to Bin Laden, although such links would be impossible to verify given the dispersed, cellular nature of these operations (thus organized precisely to prevent police from following a linear trail back to the top) and their vague hierarchy and direction. In other words, prosecutors may never find sufficient evidence to legally prove Bin Laden issued orders to various operatives, although it is clear their commitment to his cause functions as a kind of remote control...
...grieve also for those on board the hijacked planes, both passengers and crew, many of whom lived in Boston. The stories are slowly filtering out about passengers’ frightened calls over cellular phones, attempts to contact loved ones in the midst of crisis. The sense of safety in our city was quickly dispelled by the realization that terrorists had boarded planes at Logan Airport just yesterday morning; government buildings and landmarks such as the Prudential Center and John Hancock towers were closed, and the MBTA public transportation system generously waived all fares in an attempt to help workers reach...