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This is how bad it was for terrorist hunters before Sept. 11: after weeks of dangerous surveillance work along the Afghan border, Egyptian investigators visiting Pakistan last summer with the permission of that country's government finally tracked down their quarry, a close associate of Osama bin Laden named Ahmad Khadr, who was wanted in connection with the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad that killed 15 people. The Egyptians surrounded the safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where Khadr, an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify General Mehmood Ahmed, then...
...agents a network of safe houses in Pakistan to facilitate their transit in and out of Afghanistan. They also vetted new recruits for al-Qaeda and laundered terrorist funds through a global network of illegal money changers. It was no surprise to foreign spooks that the ISI let the Egyptian-Canadian Khadr escape from Peshawar. He knew too much, they say, about the ISI's alleged ties with al-Qaeda...
...partition British Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab one. The Jews, reeling from Nazi genocide and desperate for a homeland, accepted the partition plan; the Arabs rejected it and almost immediately launched an unsuccessful battle to destroy the Jewish state. In 1967, in response to an Egyptian blockade and militarization and the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s insistence to “drive the Jews into the sea,” the Israeli air force made a preemptive strike against Egypt. Israel won large portions of land in the resulting Six-Day War, including...
...team owner Mark Cuban is sitting with his bare feet on the coffee table, surfing satellite-TV offerings on five huge screens in his courtside suite at the American Airlines Center. Clicking on Channel 199, he pauses to watch a bikini-clad woman conducting a tour of an Egyptian temple. The picture is startling not because of the bikini but because everything seems so real--as if the woman and the temple were somehow just outside the window. "It's like being there, isn't it?" asks Cuban, with something like pride of ownership in his voice...
...Sept. 11 attacks. But for a long, breathless moment last week after the 67-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...