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Lakhani, 68, a Briton born in India, was arrested in New Jersey last week in a joint sting operation by the FBI and the Russian Federal Security Service for trying to sell a shoulder-fired missile to an informant posing as a terrorist. In what appears to be a coincidence, at almost the exact moment the FBI was beaming over Lakhani's arrest, security forces in Saudi Arabia discovered a document indicating that Saudi militants were casing King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in preparation for an attack on a British target. U.S. officials believe that the militants may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Secure Are The Skies? | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...evidence tying Lakhani to any terrorist group (though he did refer to Americans as "bastards" on an FBI tape), nor is there anything to explain why a man who until three years ago owned a clothing business would have been interested in weapons brokering. Still, says New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie: "Mr. Lakhani presented himself to us, not the other way around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Secure Are The Skies? | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...everyone elses freedoms and rights while the vast majority sit back, enjoy the benefit of others' sacrifice and complain when things don't go as they would like. No college deferments or the like, go to school before or after you do your share! Carl Bogdon New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the U.S. military stretched too thin? | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

...rights to gays that they proposed amending the very Constitution of the United States to forbid gay marriage (or any legal gay relationship) anywhere, anytime, anyhow. The next day, in a press conference, President Bush came close to endorsing the move. If the high courts in Massachusetts or New Jersey decide that their state constitutions demand equality in marriage (something that most observers believe could happen very soon), the reactionary movement for an anti-gay constitutional amendment could acquire an awful momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware the Straight Backlash | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...employees from discrimination--about as mainstream an endorsement as you can get. Canada just legalized gay marriage, and the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down sodomy laws across the land, legitimizing the fact that homosexual is something you are, not something you do. Polls in Massachusetts and New Jersey show majorities in favor of equal marriage rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware the Straight Backlash | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

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