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...explains during a tour of his company's 300,000-sq.-ft. factory in Washougal, Wash. Built in 1910, it's one of the country's last functional woolen mills. Custom products made here include vintage baseball uniforms, woolen sleeves for high school and college letter jackets, and commemorative Jacquard blankets and dance shawls for Native American tribes. To create environmentally friendly upholstery for office furniture, Pendleton spent months testing nontoxic dyes and other biodegradable materials to meet strict safety criteria. "I don't think you could certify that or control all those variables if you were sourcing those products...
...spare their lives," the Jordanian Islamic Action Front declared in a rare display of unity with the national government. Negotiating a release, though, is a tricky business. "The problem is, the nature and control of these groups are evolving and radicalizing all the time," says French terror expert Roland Jacquard, who has worked as an adviser to the Elysée in the hostage crisis. "Alliances are made and cut over night. It's total chaos." Will the rapprochement between France's Muslims and the rest of society last? Some say that the government should reward the country's Muslims...
...channels used by extremists are now tapping them effectively to pick up chatter. "They've gotten good at not only picking up possible messages between plotters but analyzing information more quickly to determine what is just radical railing and what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden...
...each instance the explosives were carried in bags or rucksacks. One important difference, though: the Casablanca attacks were all suicide bombings. So far, Spanish investigators have found no evidence that suicide bombers were at work in Madrid. "They were in Spain for a reason," says independent expert Roland Jacquard. "The thesis now is ... they've been continuing work there to replicate the Casablanca strike in even bolder form...
...detained veterans of al-Qaeda's Afghan training centers as having attended the Khalden camp, which catered to European-national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused 9/11 20th hijacker, and the so-called millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam were Khalden graduates. Intelligence information obtained by Jacquard indicates that Khalden veterans arrested by Western countries have identified Badat as a fellow camp alumnus. "There are clear indications Badat and others he's involved with are up to something very sinister," Jacquard says...