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...Syracuse, Yale, Southern Cal, B.U., Brown and Northeastern will all start near the top of the list and will have to compete with a few international presences. The USRowing boat and the Canadian National Team, under the name of London Training Center, will start 16th and 17th respectively. The Dutch National Team was scheduled to compete but chose not to attend due to travel considerations...
...associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American embassy in Paris. "This effort prevented what could have been more very deadly attacks," says a French antiterrorist official. "It?s the culmination of a lot of hard, diligent work...
Emirates authorities relayed their stunning information to officials in Europe, who immediately placed Beghal?s operatives under surveillance. Although French investigators say the planned strikes were still months away, the Sept. 11 U.S. attacks prompted Belgian and Dutch police to move immediately, just in case European timetables had been advanced. That, complained France?s top antiterrorist investigator Jean-Louis Brugière, not only halted monitoring to identify other members of the cabal, but also risked provoking the flight of network members in France and Spain. As it turned out, police raids in France interrupted terror suspects in the process...
...Belgian and Dutch action did, however, net an unusual array of characters. Among those arrested was Frenchman Jérôme Courtellier, a convert to Islam whose brother trained at the Afghan camps and is currently in a French prison for terrorism-related crimes. Also apprehended was Nizar Trabelsi, 31, a Tunisian and former pro soccer player, who was lured from an errant life of drugs and alcohol by the redemption of radical Islam. Moving on Beghal?s identification of Trabelsi as the designated bomber for the U.S. embassy attack, Belgian police raided his apartment and found automatic weapons...
...October, 10% in November and 30% in December. "As soon as we recognize that a route in the next six months is not a money earner, we need to remove it immediately," he said. The airline will also raise fares to help pay for added security measures. KLM, the Dutch airline, introduced a $5- per- flight surcharge last week and plans to boost fares to the U.S. and the Middle East by 5% from Oct. 16. Some of the biggest job losses in Europe came at British Airways, which announced 7,000 layoffs after Sept. 11 as well...