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...Along the approach to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, 747s screamed overhead day and night. His flight instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy found Moussaoui genial but clueless and totally unable to explain why he wanted to pilot a 747. The school's administration called the FBI, and he was arrested nearby on Aug. 16, 2001. When investigators interviewed the 33-year-old French Moroccan and asked him whether he planned to use a plane for a terrorist attack, he either did not answer or asked for a lawyer, according to different sources familiar with the session...
...from the start, the government's case against Moussaoui was utterly circumstantial, and the connection between the hijackers and him was mainly inferred from their similar profiles. In fact, sources tell TIME, the FBI has long believed that Moussaoui played no part in the 9/11 scheme and was only a minor player in al-Qaeda. Still, the Justice Department's December 2001 indictment laid out in chilling detail the 19 hijackers' activities in the months leading up to Sept. 11, alongside Moussaoui's doings over a similar time frame. Their tracks were roughly parallel, but direct contact between Moussaoui...
...remap the Middle East. A bad director tells you you're going in for weapons that don't exist." And he is happy to keep speaking up--and listening. "I've had dialogue with Dennis Kucinich, with a lot of people in the military, in intelligence, in the FBI. Some of them I sought out, some sought me out. People in the Senate; Governors. I felt like I had a lot of support. The support just wasn't broadcast...
...traffic in weapons smuggled there through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. The attack on the convoy, they say, was meant to hurt Arafat?s standing in the world, to force him to back off. It certainly put Arafat in a tight spot. The U.S., which sent an fbi team to investigate the bombing, blamed the Palestinian leader for hindering progress against terrorism by blocking the appointment of an interior minister to coordinate security operations. Arafat responded by arresting eight members of the Popular Resistance Committees, a faction crowded with former members of his security forces and disgruntled Fatah...
...FBI recruiter, who asked not to be named, said that she was trying to get undergraduates thinking differently about job opportunities, commenting that she believes public service jobs provided the most meaning...