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...authorities pick away at Reid's case, the web of terror in Europe is slowly beginning to become clear. The Sept. 11 attacks, the Paris plot and the attempt to destroy Flight 63 all share a common cast of characters. Reid seems to have known Moussaoui, Beghal and Trabelsi; Moussaoui was connected to Ramzi Binalshibh, a fugitive alleged by the FBI and German authorities to have been a member of the Hamburg cell that planned the Sept. 11 attacks; Akhnouche knew them all. A French official says, "My personal theory is that all these radical Islamists have crossed paths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shoe Bomber's World | 2/16/2002 | See Source »

...southern province of Mindanao to hunt shoulder to shoulder with the frustrated Philippine soldiers who have been scouring the area for the past eight months. In theory, the 650 U.S. G.I.s, including 160 special forces, are being sent to teach the local troops better ways to search out and destroy Abu Sayyaf, a group that officials say has had ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. In practice, armed with sophisticated munitions and authorized to fire only in self-defense, the Americans seem likely to do everything short of direct combat attacks to help rid the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop Mindanao | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...larger passes close by annually; many such asteroids are undetected. Her goal, and that of the other asteroid hunters, is to identify the intruders, plot their orbits and predict possible impacts further in advance. That might just provide enough time for measures to deflect or destroy the menace before catastrophe strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Near Miss From Outer Space | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Peace in the Valley | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...March, Taliban commanders flew in by helicopter. A public meeting was called, and the main speaker, then-Defense Minister Obaidullah Akhund?who reportedly surrendered to the new government last week and was set free?read a decree by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement's spiritual leader, ordering the Buddhas destroyed. The Hazara, the dominant ethnic group here, believe the Taliban had another agenda: to destroy them, too. Of Mongoloid stock, the Hazara have long been the objects of discrimination in Afghanistan, and suffered a terrible massacre in Kabul in 1993 by troops under the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Peace in the Valley | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

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