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...wondering if they should buy a new car and Cisco stock for the war effort or gas masks and bonds for the home front, dependent-less me would be off in foreign lands, paying down high-interest-rate consumer debt. Like many Americans I've been too good a credit-card patriot for too long, and a profitable, adventurous, honorable-type break would position me well for the upturn that should hit in oh, about six months (or more...
Some of the men seemed to use the same Visa card, on which they rang up substantial charges, and gave the same Mail Boxes Etc. addresses, especially toward the last days of their lives. On attack day, four to seven cross-country tickets were billed to the same card. The same card number showed up on the rental contract for a car the hijackers left at Logan Airport and for a Boston hotel room some slept in. The pile of credit-card receipts, rental-car contracts, hotel bills and airline tickets tracks their movements as they eventually made their...
...three key figures actually issues specific attack orders to adherents. Ressam told investigators the al-Qaeda operatives are rarely given detailed instructions. Rather, they are trained and then sent out to almost autonomous cells to act on their own, to plan attacks and raise their own funds, often using credit-card scams to load up on money, despite the Islamic prohibition against theft. Bin Laden, whose general practice is to praise terror attacks but disclaim any direct connection to them, has said, "Our job is to instigate...
...some success in cutting him off from his assets. Al-Qaeda gets funds from sympathizers in oil-rich gulf states and from otherwise legitimate Islamic charities. Recently it has turned more to criminal sources, including arms dealing. Cells have been forced to use petty theft, credit-card fraud and other scams to finance themselves...
...long rates stay down, millions of homeowners will get a chance to refinance mortgages and cut their monthly costs. Many will take out cash when they refinance and use it to pay off credit-card debt or start a home improvement. The jobless rate, while a point higher than it was last October, remains remarkably low--just below the 5% considered "full employment" only a few years ago. Inflation remains tame. And the dollar, weaker last week against the yen and the euro, will make U.S. exports more attractive...