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...hijackers followed the same m.o. in Germany, where the terror plot may have been nurtured at two universities in Hamburg, which three of the four terror team leaders attended. On Friday German police issued arrest warrants for two suspects in connection with the attacks. Ramzi Binalshibh, from Yemen, and Said Bahaji, who was born in Germany, are charged with at least 5,000 counts of murder, suggesting a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The men were both roommates of Atta...
...network that is deep within the society of the United States, Germany and other countries." The battlefields of the new war, it follows, will include the countinghouses of Swiss banks, the teeming cities of North Africa and the Middle East--and the suburbs of New Jersey, Michigan, Paris and Hamburg. "This is as complete a war effort as mankind has ever seen," says Senator Chuck Hagel, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee...
Atta and Al-Shehhi, his close companion, are the two hijackers the investigation has been most successful in profiling. Before journeying to Florida, Atta studied for several years at Germany's Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and shared an apartment with Al-Shehhi. According to German chief prosecutor Kay Nehm, they were linked with a group formed with the "aim of carrying out serious crimes, together with other Islamic extremist groups abroad, to attack the U.S. in a spectacular way through the destruction of symbolic buildings...
...authorized a private company to cook up 40 million additional doses of smallpox vaccine to add to the U.S. stockpile--a job that will take several years. "We also need to develop new drugs and vaccines against other organisms that might be a threat," says Dr. Margaret Hamburg of the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative. "And we need to do research to better understand how some of these organisms cause disease...
...native of Hamburg, Germany, Petersen received her master’s degree in Kansas before coming to Cambridge to pursue a doctorate. She is specializing in international relations and said she ultimately hopes to teach and research...