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...gift-laden friends, barely back from some corner of the globe, re-immerse themselves in the mundane rhythm of response papers and tutorial reading, their stories of the halcyon life they had shuttling from host family to host family in Lesotho draw us further down the path of study-abroad envy. Of course, mostly we hear about alcohol. We hear stories about our friends getting smashed and hooking up with that girl in tight jeans and pointy, Euro-trash boots. Or about how wine is really cheap in Italy, beer in Germany, or Ouzo in Greece. A friend of mine...
Early on, Osama bin Laden realized that he could evade eavesdroppers for a certain period of time simply by using an innocuous-looking unencrypted telephone line. Al Qaeda operatives have also adapted to U.S. surveillance by hanging up their cell phones, logging off email, and using physical couriers. Meanwhile, they disseminate disinformation through electronic means, since they know that the U.S. is probably listening in at any given time...
...they allegedly taught him how to use weapons and discussed setting up an al-Qaeda cell in the U.S. A week after Abu Ali's arrest, the FBI searched his parents' home in Virginia and found, among other things, Arabic audiotapes "promoting violent jihad"; a book by Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, condemning democracy as a "new religion that must be destroyed"; and an issue of Handguns magazine. "That was pretty damning stuff," says Victoria Toensing, a former terrorism prosecutor now in private practice. But, she adds, "a professor of terrorism could have that stuff...
Additionally, the more funk-laden sensibility of the Red Hot Chili Peppers came to the fore on some of the more up-tempo numbers...
Iyman Faris March 2003 An Ohio truck driver, he was accused of training with Osama bin Laden and plotting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge Arrested after being named by captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Faris pleaded guilty in May 2003 and agreed to cooperate. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail...