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...hawks point to another piece of circumstantial evidence. Since last fall the U.S. has tried to confirm a Czech intelligence report that in April 2001, 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague. Both the CIA and FBI have disputed the report. Their research places Atta in Florida two days before the purported meeting, and they could not uncover any travel or financial records to prove Atta had made a quick flight to Prague. But early this month several Pentagon officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, met with the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism...
...situation was brought under control only after a two-hour gun battle. ZIMBABWE Dumbing Down An independent radio station in the capital Harare was destroyed in an explosion. Staff at the Voice of the People station said they suspected that the building was bombed, though police would not confirm this. The incident, in which no one was hurt, comes after claims by the government of Robert Mugabe that the independent media are conducting an anti-government campaign. MIDDLE EAST No Withdrawal Israel canceled talks with Palestinians aimed at implementing a plan for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian-controlled areas...
...facilities identified. But eventually the FDA, with help from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zeroed in on CryoLife. Together the agencies charge that on at least one occasion CryoLife improperly distributed tissue from a cadaver it had learned was contaminated. (CryoLife could not confirm or deny that event.) The industry standard is not to use any tissue from a corpse where any infectious tissue has been found--even if the two tissues were harvested from opposite ends of the body. "This has been going on this year and a good part of last year," says Dr. Murray Lumpkin...
...establishments, the military is in effect helping to line the pockets of human traffickers," the legislators told U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In June, the Pentagon pledged to investigate the trafficking allegations in Korea and check other U.S. military installations around the world. (A Pentagon spokesman could not confirm whether such an investigation had started. In a written statement, the U.S. military in Korea says it has nearly completed an inquiry into the allegations...
Harvard officials could also not confirm a House affiliation for McGaffigan. All College undergraduates are assigned to a residential House in the spring of their first year and must retain a House affiliation for the rest of their time studying at the College...