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...Laden reportedly tried to obtain uranium from the breakaway Soviet states, but his sources bilked him, offering instead low-grade reactor fuel and radioactive garbage. Even if he had been successful, says von Hippel, it would take at least 150 lbs. of uranium plus hundreds of pounds of casing and machinery to make a weapon. "Nobody's going to be carrying a bomb around in a suitcase," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Weapons: The Next Threat? | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

Someone, maybe Atta, was meticulously casing the airport, checking plane schedules, looking for half-empty flights, testing security measures. He and his accomplices obviously learned a great deal about airline schedules, aircraft capabilities and fuel loads, perhaps even seat configurations. The car was found there again Tuesday night, containing a "ramp pass" to enter restricted areas of Logan Airport. Maybe that someone was reconnoitering with accomplices who worked on the planes, who could plant weapons onboard. Monday night, some of the Boston suicide squads collected at the Park Inn in suburban Chestnut Hill. By Wednesday dozens of police in bulletproof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Breed of Terrorist | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

Many families won't get anything back, the bodies of their kin already cremated by burning jet fuel and returned to earth and ash and dust. These families will hold a funeral with an empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging Out | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...Laden reportedly tried to obtain uranium from the breakaway Soviet states, but his sources bilked him, offering instead low-grade reactor fuel and radioactive garbage. Even if he had been successful, says von Hippel, it would take at least 150 lbs. of uranium plus hundreds of pounds of casing and machinery to make a weapon. "Nobody's going to be carrying a bomb around in a suitcase," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bioterrorism: The Next Threat? | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...begins to adapt to the process of democratization that the West has been undergoing for a few hundred years. The first requirement of such adaptation is self-accountability, and the essential sign of such self-accountability will be the ability to accept the reality of a Jewish state. The fuel of antisemitism is more explosive even than the jet fuel that brought down the World Trade Center. The longer it is accommodated or encouraged, the greater the danger to the worlds leading democracy. Once we understand that, we will better know what is to be doneand what isnt. The example...

Author: By Ruth R. Wisse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Confronting Antisemitism | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

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