Word: marabh
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Palestinian security officials tell TIME that hard-liners within Hamas promote the idea of breaking its tradition of targeting Israelis only and starting to hit Americans to show support for bin Laden and solidarity with Afghans. COINCIDENCE? Nabil Al-Marabh, the Boston cabdriver arrested in the post-Sept. 11 antiterror dragnet, is a subscriber of the Globe, a tabloid published from the Florida building exposed to anthrax. SMALL AND FLEET: Small airlines get more secure faster. Mesa Airlines, based in Phoenix, Ariz., was first to put trained guards on flights, while mini-carriers Frontier and JetBlue had reinforced cockpit doors...
...source says investigators are trying to "sort out what connection," if any, Al-Marabh has to the plot. And the bureau is not willing to say this Al-Marabh is the man on its watch list. (The bureau is sure, however, that he is the Boston cabdriver who stabbed his roommate.) In interviews with TIME, neighbors and co-workers describe Al-Marabh as a hot-tempered slacker with a fondness for fruity, slushy drinks and a longing for female companionship. "He was always asking if anyone could hook him up with women," says a co-worker calling himself Haidar...
...then Al-Marabh had probably already heard about the arrests of three men whom federal agents had found in his former Detroit home when they were looking for him. As with Al-Marabh, it is unclear whether Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, Karim Koubriti, 23, and Ahmed Hannan, 33, have any connection to the attacks. Yet two of them--Koubriti and Hannan--had worked for two months for LSG Sky Chefs, a catering company providing airplane meals at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The agents who arrested the three men uncovered several phony documents including a passport, a Social Security card...
...arrested Nabil Al-Marabh in Chicago. He was wanted for fleeing probation in Boston, where he stabbed a roommate. While in Michigan, he had obtained a license to transport hazardous materials. Agents believe he knew one of the hijackers and may have funneled money to fellow Boston cabby Raed Hijazi, a bin Laden associate on trial in Jordan for his role in the foiled Millennium attacks. The FBI also has questions for Mouldi Sayeh, a Boston hotel owner. Witnesses allege he may be a broker for bin Laden siblings there. A man arrested at New York City's JFK airport...
...Nabil Al-Marabh, a former Boston cabdriver arrested last week, was a friend of one of the hijackers, U.S. officials say. He also reportedly has ties to a Palestinian convicted in Jordan of planning to bomb millennium celebrations--allegedly an al-Qaeda-backed plot...