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...Friday afternoon and announced that four hours of talks had failed to persuade the Israeli Prime Minister to halt his military offensive in the West Bank, a 20-year-old Palestinian woman named Andaleeb Taqatqa prepared to die. Her plan was to walk into the Mahane Yehuda market in downtown Jerusalem and blow herself up during rush hour as Israelis shopped for fruits and vegetables in preparation for the Sabbath. When she arrived at the crowded bazaar just after 4 p.m., Israeli police prevented her from entering. She walked down the street, waited for a bus to pull...
...year-old pilot crashed a small plane into Milan's tallest skyscraper, the world couldn't help thinking back to the indelible images of the World Trade Center's tragic demise orchestrated by the Egyptian-born Atta. As investigators try to figure out what sent Fasulo straying toward downtown Milan, all signs now point clearly away from terrorism. But as the sun set on a perfectly clear Thursday, it had seemed that the other shoe - though of a much smaller size - had dropped in the heart of a key European financial capital. There were the first eyewitness accounts...
...outskirts of Milan. Nearly 30 minutes later he radioed the Linate tower saying that he had minor landing gear problems and asked for clearance as he approached from the north. But he ignored subsequent directions from the tower to circle near the airstrip and suddenly turned westward toward downtown. Moments later his altitude dropped suddenly and the plane pierced the building in a perfectly horizontal position, according to witnesses. The day after the crash, one of Fasulo's two sons was quoted in the Rome-based daily La Repubblica as saying his father probably committed suicide because of mounting financial...
...Finally, the officials had to take into account the fact that over the next week, the streets near the World Bank and International Monetary Fund buildings in downtown Washington would teem with anti-globalism activists protesting the organizations' spring meetings. What if a few Al Qaeda operatives managed to infiltrate the crowds and set off explosions near the international lending agencies or other financial institutions? There was no intelligence that such a plot was in the offing, but it was plausible enough that no one could guarantee that it wasn...
Subject to Change, the fifth band on the ticket, was also remarkably talented, presenting another difficult challenge for the judges. Despite playing one song with an electric violin, the poor sound quality during its set and its similar style to Invisible Downtown probably hurt the band’s chances...