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...anatomy of one such alert is telling. Last Monday night, the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force--a round-the-clock operation at the New York field office of the FBI--got a call from FBI headquarters. Abu Zubaydah, the highest al-Qaeda official to be captured by the U.S., had told interrogators that he had heard other Osama bin Laden loyalists discussing attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and other U.S. landmarks. But, a federal law-enforcement official told TIME, Abu Zubaydah had said the conversations took place a while back and claimed he knew...
...same moment the second tower collapsed on September 11th, five bells rang out in memory of the 343 firefighters lost in the attacks and the final load of rubble was hauled from the 16-acre site in lower Manhattan. After 3.1 million hours of round-the-clock labor, 1.8 million tons of debris removed, 20,000 body parts recovered and 1,102 victims identified, the job was finished. In a tribute to the 1,730 WTC victims whose remains may never be found, workers, flanked by silent mourners, carried a final empty stretcher draped in an American flag...
...blast that killed two Israelis Monday and sent Israeli tanks back into Jenin suggested that Israel and the Palestinians are back at Square 1. And Square 1 is not simply the situation of two months ago, or even two years ago. The two sides have managed to rewind the clock by a decade, all the way back to before the Oslo agreement...
...files as well. A constant stream of theories and proposals comes from FBI field offices to the bureau's headquarters in Washington. We agents see things we think are worth a closer look. We recommend opening a case. We recommend a wiretap, an undercover operation or around-the-clock surveillance. But all proposals need to be reviewed for legality, practicality and the potential of public backlash...
...always trying to help people. She would say to me, "What are you doing on Saturday night? You know the blue suit with the three buttons? And the blue shirt with the red tie? I want you to be at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 8 o'clock." The next thing I knew I was at some charity. My god, Barbara cursed me if I did anything wrong. But if anybody else cursed me, she'd go after them with all the Sunnyside, Queens, in her. She was just a great, great girl...