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Arrested at London's Heathrow Airport last February, he is in custody fighting extradition to the U.S., where he was indicted in August for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and providing money, safe houses and other material support to terrorists. He is alleged to have been the handler of fellow Algerian Ahmed Ressam, an operative living in Montreal who was arrested in December 1999 while trying to cross the U.S.-Canadian border in a rental car filled with homemade explosives; in April, Ressam was convicted of plotting to blow up lax on New Year's Eve. Italian antiterrorist police believe...
...Allfirst, though it hasn't accused them of wrongdoing. "Clearly, controls broke down," said Susan Keating, president of the Baltimore unit, "and we don't wholly understand how." Her boss in Dublin, Allied Irish chief executive Michael Buckley, suggested that no controls could hold back a trader determined to commit fraud. "You have a wonderful alarm system in your house," he said, "but someone who has a reasonable amount of skill and a certain amount of knowledge about what happens inside the house can still find a way to break...
Last November, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft declared that he would hunt down doctors who help terminally ill patients commit suicide. The move was prompted by a law in Oregon that legalizes doctor-assisted suicide. He said that doctors who prescribe drugs to help patients die face suspension or revocation of their privileges to prescribe federally controlled drugs...
Upon the questioning of police, Gallant—who has previously been charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, threat to commit a crime, breaking and entering, larceny, trespassing and possession of a controlled substance—denied knowing about the marijuana...
...think the question whether or not to commit suicide is a good question,” he says. “And for me the good answer is not to commit suicide and to lead a life worth living.” But the graphic on his book still stands as a more-than-adequate metaphor for his life. “Things are not either ‘this is great’ or ‘I should commit suicide,’ they’re either boring or a bit of both. They?...