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...Islamic Jihad terror group on a border watch list, but through a screwup, the pair got into the U.S. anyway. The two men appear to have been on American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, TIME has learned. Boston appears to have been a central hub for the operation; U.S. intelligence believes a bin Laden cell in Florida was a support group helping with the aviation aspects of the attack...
...believed to be associated with one of the Islamic Jihad terror groups. Through a screwup, the suspects were lost. The two men appear to have been on the American Airlines Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, sources told TIME. Boston appears to have been a central hub for the operation; U.S. intelligence believes a bin Laden cell in Florida was a support group helping with the aviation aspects of the attack...
...FORTUNE magazine, a sister publication of TIME, published a famously controversial article entitled The Death of Hong Kong, which predicted that after 1997, when communist China resumed sovereignty over the city, it would cease to be a "vibrant international hub." The ensuing years made the argument seem naive, and Hong Kong's élite still cite it as an example of foreign ignorance. Local hubris hit a high recently when a senior official proclaimed that Hong Kong is destined to become a "Manhattan Plus...
...Hong Kong ceased to be a vibrant international hub under Chinese rule? Yes No Not sure...
...Meanwhile, Indonesian patrolmen blame Singapore for what they say is a total lack of cooperation. Despite its squeaky clean reputation, they say, Singapore's patrols never follow up on their alerts when a pirate they are pursuing slips into Singaporean waters. They add that the city-state is a hub for smuggling - oil, wood, rattan. But all agree that the dire state of the Indonesian economy - and the accompanying erosion of law and order - has pushed piracy to such unprecedented levels. "The salaries for sailors have gotten lower and lower," says the captain. "And it's getting more and more...