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Many on Harvard’s campus have expressed support for the joint American and British military strikes in Afghanistan that began Sunday, although some question whether the U.S. is doing enough to protect innocent civilians in Afghanistan...
...retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon came Sunday as forces led by the U.S. government struck 31 targets at three major sites, according to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfield and Air Force General Richard Myers, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...favor military action. Through websites and group e-mail listservs, antiwar activists have reached campus veterans of campaigns for a "living wage" or against foreign sweatshops, and have tapped into the fully primed energies of the anti-globalization movement. After the World Bank and International Monetary Fund canceled their joint meeting in Washington last weekend, demonstrations long planned against that event were refashioned into antiwar protests and drew thousands to the capital on Saturday...
...brokerage business occupied the World Trade Center, its headquarters are in midtown Manhattan, and a trust-services division is based in Jersey City, N.J. "Companies should be in low-profile locations for many good business reasons, not just for security," says retired Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and now an adviser to GlobalOptions, a corporate security firm in Washington. "We recommend that clients decentralize if it's practical." Firms with well-known American brands are also being advised to lower their profiles abroad. Philip Morris says it may soon remove its brand names (such...
...named after Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian Muslim, bin Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American embassy in Paris. "This effort prevented what could have been more very deadly attacks," says a French antiterrorist official...