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...last days of the Clinton Administration or the early days of Bush's term. White House official Richard Clarke, who will testify before Congress this week, ran the CSG during both terms.) In early 2000 the CIA identified two attendees of the meeting as Nawaz al Hamzi and Khalid al Midhar. The pair would eventually help hijack Flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon. In 2000, while tracking the two, the CIA failed to refer them to the INS's terrorism watch list, allowing them to enter the U.S. A congressional intelligence source told TIME that there...
...DIEGO Hijackers Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid al-Midhar lived in California in 1999 and 2000, receiving visitors and taking flying lessons...
...Dilshada and Zahoor Ahmed Sheikh faced that bleak reality when their son Khalid was 16. Khalid was looking up to some dangerous role models: a few older friends who had gone across the border to Pakistan to join up with the anti-India insurgency raging in Kashmir. He developed a schoolboy enthusiasm for AK-47s. Then Khalid announced there was no point studying because, in his words, "Everyone is going to die anyway." The couple had to make a decision. "We summoned up our courage," says mother Dilshada, "and sent him away...
...best thing that could have happened to a young Kashmiri in the 1990s. Ten years later, Khalid has a master's in business administration from Ohio University and is planning to go back to the U.S. for an additional degree, this one in finance. His friends who stayed behind to study medicine or law don't have a hope of practicing their professions: there are no jobs in Kashmir. Of his ten closest schoolmates, four joined the militancy?at least one died in action?and others left town. When Khalid returns for holidays, he finds Kashmir stiflingly oppressive. Last month...
...Stuck in the middle, Kashmiris have either stolidly borne up, joined the separatist militants, or been forced to find a decent life far away from family, the mother tongue and the mountains, orchards and idyllic lakes. "The militancy turned out to be a blessing for me," says Khalid. "If there had been no violence, I would have studied at home and joined the family business." Khalid's family has a substantial textile and carpet business. They could afford to buy their son freedom...