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...strange places. In January the Wall Street Journal published an astonishing tale. Journal reporters in Kabul purchased a secondhand computer whose hard drive contained thousands of files written by al-Qaeda members. One file was a detailed account of the travels last summer of "Abdul Ra'uff," who flew from the Netherlands to Israel, Egypt and Turkey scouting locations for terrorist attacks. Abdul Ra'uff's itinerary matched one known to have been taken at the same time by Reid. FBI analysts now firmly believe that Reid and Ra'uff are the same man. Moreover, in the past two weeks...
...summer of 2001, Reid was back in London. In July he obtained a new British passport in Amsterdam, claiming that he had accidentally put his old one through a washing machine, and flew to Israel on an El Al flight. Once in Israel, according to security sources there, Reid spent most of his time in Tel Aviv, where he cased the mall and office complex called the Azrieli Center as well as the local bus and train stations. ("Abdul Ra'uff" also checked security at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.) After 10 days in Israel, Reid...
...will call to testify in his attempt to show the world that he was really a peacemaker in the Balkans and not the war criminal he's being portrayed as. His second day of opening arguments was much the same as his first: literal finger-pointing as the accusations flew against what he called NATO's "savage, pointless" and Nazi-like attack on his country. the whole story...
...London's Kensington Palace to King Edward VII Hospital. A few hours later, at 6:30 a.m., she died "peacefully in her sleep," according to a Buckingham Palace statement. Her two much-loved children, Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, were at her bedside. As the Union flag flew at half - mast over Buckingham Palace for the first time since Princess Diana's death in 1997, the royal family was making arrangements for the funeral - a private service on Friday at St. George's Chapel in Windsor, where her father, King George VI, is also buried...
...honor guard of eight U.S. Olympic athletes, including Harvard hockey standout Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, carried in the torn and tattered flag that flew from the World Trade Center on the day of the attacks. They were accompanied by New York City firefighters and police officers...