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...with Abu Zubaydah during the U.S. military campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Abu Zubaydah told al-Faruq that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait, but in the meantime, al-Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions. Knowing the U.S. Navy was scheduled to conduct joint exercises in the Surabaya harbor in late May, al-Faruq plotted a suicide attack against a U.S. ship, similar to the deadly al-Qaeda operation against the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. He drafted a Somali operative named Gharib to help find Arabs willing to participate in the suicide...
...about a year ago when New York State police working in Buffalo's large Yemeni community got a tip about a group of men who had allegedly traveled to Afghanistan in 2001. The cops notified the Buffalo FBI, and Peter Ahearn, special agent in charge, put the entire Buffalo Joint Terrorism Task Force on the case. By analyzing travel and Customs records, conducting interviews and doing old-fashioned surveillance, investigators zeroed in on five young Muslims in the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna--all U.S.-born Yemenis--and three Yemeni-American men outside the U.S., identified only as co-conspirators...
Lagemann also cited a joint program between the School of Education and the Business School to train school superintendents...
Predictably, though, the international community greeted Operation Babylon with near-universal condemnation. The Arab League issued a joint statement calling the bombing “a dangerous precedent that threatens world peace and security.” French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy deemed the strike “unacceptable,” and the British Foreign Office labeled it “an unprovoked attack” that constituted “a grave breach of international law which could have the most serious consequences.” The United Nations Security Council—in a unanimous...
...rules are applied rigidly, those firms will have to decide whether to play by them or cut themselves off from the world's largest capital market. The lobbying will gather steam this week, when business representatives from the 15 E.U. countries meet in Brussels to hammer out a joint stance. One of the biggest questions they face is how much of a public fuss to make. It's a tough call. Markets are already unsettled, and companies don't want to look as if they have something to hide. "Just because many are holding back with public criticism doesn...