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...shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told TIME. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland, Va., about 80 miles south of Washington, where a rifle shot Saturday night wounded a traveler in the parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tortured Trail | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told Time. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland, Va., about 80 miles south of Washington, where a rifle shot Saturday night wounded a traveler in the parking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperately Trailing the Sniper | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

BILLER-DIRECT PAYMENT Many credit-card companies and other big billers allow you to pay through their websites. This requires some setup--you generally need a user ID number and password--but after that it's easy. You can see your most recent statements and transactions online and choose how much you want to pay. Print a receipt, and you're done. By coupling biller direct with direct debiting, you can sizably reduce the number of checks you write without fully automating. The downside: you have to travel from site to site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Check Is in the Mail. Not! | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...million accounts, 2.5 million credit-card accounts, $10.6 billion in personal loans-and an income of $483 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citi Slicker | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

...educated us fast." What investigators learned is that the success of the G.I.A. in exporting to France its jihad against the Algerian regime made the organization a logical partner for Osama bin Laden. Since 1995 al-Qaeda cells seem to have imitated the G.I.A.'s tactics: using car theft, credit-card fraud and document forgery to fund terror plots; recruiting and indoctrinating alienated youths and petty crooks from Arab communities, then using their larceny to fund jihad. Police arresting cell members for crimes like these often never make the link between the offense and the cause it serves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Takes The Stand | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

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