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...objections of prisoners or their counsel. But there are some notable exceptions, including one case that could undercut some of the government's central legal aims. In March two men, Irfan Kamran, 32, and Sajjad Nasser, 28, were held in prison, charged with harboring an illegal immigrant, while the FBI tried to determine whether they had links to al-Qaeda. Kamran, a naturalized American citizen, and Nasser, a Pakistani, are cousins who had been living legally in the U.S. for years but returned occasionally to their native country. The government contends that in the summer of 2001 Nasser attended...
...Kamran, prosecutors say he told a "confidential source" that he planned to join al-Qaeda and fight the U.S. Kamran's lawyer denies that, saying the FBI claim rests upon a witness it refuses to identify. On April 8, Federal Judge Lewis T. Babcock ordered Kamran's and Nasser's release, ruling that the government had failed to show that they were dangerous. At that point, prosecutors successfully moved to detain Nasser again by hitting him with another immigration charge...
Limitations on who may participate in sensitive research, established in the wake of Sept. 11 through the USA PATRIOT Act and Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, also requires researchers working on biological agents and toxins to undergo FBI scrutiny and forbids foreign scholars from certain nations—such as Iran, Iraq, Cuba, and North Korea—from participating in research on biological agents...
...three other pilots that, chances are, will show up on some network's fall lineup. Cold Cases is Without a Trace with cases that are 20 years old instead of 10 days old (i.e., Martha Moxley, not Chandra Levy). Fearless is a WB drama about an FBI agent (Rachael Leigh Cook) who is missing the fear gene. And Skin (Fox) is a Romeo and Juliet tale in which Romeo's dad is a district attorney and Juliet's dad is a porn magnate. Bruckheimer takes low culture and shines it up real pretty...
...arrests could also help investigators unravel the inner workings of al-Qaeda. FBI sources say Attash, a key suspect in the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, attended a meeting that January in Kuala Lumpur where al-Qaeda leaders mapped out the Sept. 11 attacks. And because Attash once worked as one of bin Laden's bodyguards?until losing a foot several years ago in Afghanistan?investigators hope to press him about the whereabouts of his boss...