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...Washington concede that "at least" hundreds of the enemy have crossed into Pakistan, where diplomatic and strategic considerations keep them beyond the reach of U.S. forces. Among the fleeing al-Qaeda, say intelligence sources in Islamabad, may have been Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, the Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri. He was reportedly sighted a month ago, near Anaconda's mountainous battle zone. Says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital: "The Americans are feeling a hell of a lot of frustration...
...generation--the "kids with beards"--come to power, yet he kept going to the office, planning scripts, dreaming schemes. Only toward the end did he acknowledge that his big carnival ride was over. At a 1997 testimonial he told the story of an old man who informs his doctor that he can no longer pee. The doctor's diagnosis: "You've peed enough...
...point last week, it began to look as if the anthrax mailings might have an al-Qaeda connection after all. For one thing, military sources confirmed that anthrax traces had been found in several al-Qaeda training facilities. Around the same time, word leaked that Christos Tsonas, a Florida doctor who had treated Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, one of the Sept. 11 hijackers, for a skin lesion, had changed his diagnosis to anthrax after the attacks...
...Florida physician, the FBI simply doesn't trust his after-the-fact diagnosis, even though a team of experts from Johns Hopkins who recently reviewed the case agreed that anthrax probably caused the lesion. An FBI source says the doctor "had no cultures, no blood tests. His analysis was made from his handwritten notes and memory." More important, the source notes, authorities have combed cars, houses and anywhere else the hijackers were known to have lived or spent time and found no traces of anthrax. "We vacuumed everywhere they had been for residue." FBI officials remain convinced the anthrax came...
ALTERNATE ENDING In the original, the alien (he may be just a mental patient) played by Kevin Spacey meets his fate, prompting his doctor friend (Jeff Bridges) to reunite with his son. The alternate is more cryptic, leaving Bridges staring in wonder at the night...