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...officials from the Washington police department and the FBI uncovered four additional envelopes addressed to the offices of Al Hayat, the Arabic-language newspaper Sandarusi works for. The second was found Thursday morning among unopened letters that had been delivered the previous Tuesday; the third and fourth arrived at 3 p.m. with the afternoon post; and the fifth was plucked from a regional mail center before it was sent on. All five closely resembled three identical letter bombs, also postmarked from Alexandria, addressed separately to "parole officer" at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Late last week U.S. intelligence officials...
...Salameh is also linked to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up the United Nations and several other New York landmarks. Rahman is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri. But what could be the connection between Salameh/Rahman and Al Hayat...
...newspaper could have been the target in its own right. One of the most prestigious and respected papers in the Middle East, Al Hayat runs balanced, unsparing coverage on political developments in virtually every Arab country outside Saudi Arabia, and it has won a wide audience throughout the region, as well as among Arab exiles in Europe and the U.S. But these qualities have also earned Al Hayat many enemies in a part of the world with virtually no tradition of--or appreciation for--objective journalism. Under the editorship of Jihad al Khazen, the paper, based in London, has undertaken...
Nevertheless, Khazen is mystified. He acknowledges that Al Hayat's editorials have consistently opposed "terrorism and extremism in the Arab world." But he points out that the newspaper has also been willing to publish interviews with numerous Islamic militant leaders to give these groups a chance to air their views. "We have been thinking hard and fast," he says. "I really did not pick a fight with anyone. I was very surprised that we received those letter bombs. We must have hit a nerve, but we don't know whose." (One possibility: an extremist group whose views Khazen refused...
...incident points up the lack of communication between the two agencies. "Investigations are being compromised by the TSA notifying people we don't want to know we're pursuing," says an FBI agent. But the FBI can't always blame the TSA. FBI agents were tracking Umer and Hamid Hayat, the father and son from Lodi, Calif., who were arrested June 5 on suspicion of being linked to al-Qaeda. (They have pleaded not guilty.) Hamid was also on the TSA's no-fly list and could not return to the U.S., where the FBI was waiting to question...