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Whatever Moussaoui's true tale may be, the Minnesota field office was convinced he was worth checking out. Agents spent much of the next two weeks in an increasingly frantic--and ultimately fruitless--effort to persuade FBI headquarters to authorize a national-security warrant to search Moussaoui's computer. From Washington, requests were sent to authorities in Paris for background details on the suspect. Like most things having to do with Moussaoui, the contents of the dossier sent over from Paris are in dispute. One senior French law-enforcement source told TIME the Americans were given "everything they needed...
...true that nobody predicted Sept. 11--that nobody guessed in advance how and when the attacks would come. But other things are true too. By last summer, many of those in the know--the spooks, the buttoned-down bureaucrats, the law-enforcement professionals in a dozen countries--were almost frantic with worry that a major terrorist attack against American interests was imminent. It wasn't averted because 2001 saw a systematic collapse in the ability of Washington's national-security apparatus to handle the terrorist threat...
...glacier on Monte Rosa, and authorities worried that the water would burst its banks - or worse, that the glacier itself would become dislodged, sending a river of ice, mud, rock and debris crashing down the mountainside and into Macugnaga situated below. Disaster was averted thanks to cooler temperatures and frantic efforts to pump water out of the lake. But for Andreas Kääb, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, the Macugnaga incident is both a fascinating case study and an ominous sign of things to come. "Macugnaga presents most of the world's glacial hazards - ice avalanches...
...Jiang has every reason to be exhausted. He's a notoriously choosy actor who usually appears in just one movie a year, yet his brooding mug will flicker through five films in the next 12 months. Missing Gun?a fast-paced crime flick about a small town cop whose frantic search for his stolen pistol unearths a web of provincial vice?is Jiang's first appearance in a film since Devils on the Doorstep, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. Two years ago, Devils, a black-and-white masterpiece about the Japanese occupation of a Chinese village...
...living on caffeine. These deadlines never end,” Ellsberg laughs, comparing the frantic process of writing the footnotes for his 705-page memoir to his work as an undergraduate on The Crimson’s editorial board...