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...group "a new twist we regard as extremely troubling." Police said some of those arrested had launched a spree of armed robberies to finance the network's underground work; a raid of the group's suspected arms cache turned up explosives, a dozen detonators, pistols and assault rifles. "We hadn't seen Islamists using such brazen crime to finance the cause since the mid-1990s," the counterterrorism official says. "This return to early methods may mean this group wanted to move ahead far faster with an attack than we normally...
...fell under scrutiny in 1995, when Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, a Palestinian economist who had helped direct the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, a Muslim think tank co-founded by al-Arian at U.S.F., turned up in Syria as head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian maintained that he hadn't known of Shallah's involvement in the terrorist group and kept building an image of himself as an "enlightened Islamist" who led interfaith projects in Florida, gave women leadership positions at his Tampa mosque--and in the 2000 presidential campaign, stumped for George W. Bush because he found Bush more...
...hours, the detectives had his confession and, in their minds, didn't need to look any further. But six months later, Williams' DNA evidence didn't match blood or semen found on the scene or the skin found under Moore-Bosko's fingernails. The detectives' conclusion was that Williams hadn't acted alone. So they brought in Joseph Dick Jr., who had been living with Williams and his wife at the time. The night of Moore-Bosko's murder, Dick told the detectives at first, he was on duty, a fact they never checked. (Navy senior chief Michael Ziegler...
...that same day held on a first-floor conference room at Harbin's Peace Village Hotel, according to someone who was present, Heilongjiang Governor Zhang Zuoji explained to 400 local and provincial officials why Harbin had first deceived its population: his bosses at the State Council in Beijing hadn't approved an announcement on the leak. Unable to report the real reason, he said, the city of Harbin had "created an explanation." Only after the people of Harbin panicked did the State Council approve the second, truthful statement...
...believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product," he says, his fingers fidgeting with anything he can find--a pencil, his scraggly beard, his beat-up old Samsung phone, the buttons on his army-style coat. "I hadn't figured out properly how to act, and all of a sudden I was being thrown into these lead roles. I didn't have the black room and the black pajamas to prance around making mistakes in private. All my mistakes are on the screen." Most of all, Ledger says...