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That was the third huge mistake--and a somewhat baffling conclusion to draw, given the evidence at hand. In spring of 2001, Ahmed Ressam, the "millennium bomber," was on trial in Los Angeles, charged with being part of a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport and other locations at the end of 1999. In her press conference last week, Rice conceded that in 2001 the FBI "was involved in a number of investigations of potential al-Qaeda personnel operating in the United States...
...training camp in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda taught many Europe-based Arabs. His fingerprints appear on most of the group's terrorist plots during the past few years: Zubaydah was implicated in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa; he allegedly played a role in the so-called Millennium plots - two thwarted terrorist attacks planned for December 1999, one at Los Angeles International Airport and the other at a popular tourist hotel in Jordan. He is also linked to Zacarias Moussaoui, the French trainee pilot on trial in the U.S. as the purported "20th hijacker," and allegedly a Khalden...
...influence-peddling scandals (he's never been charged). For a leader who promised to end Korea's culture of corruption, watching offspring turn the Blue House into an atm is debilitating. President Kim has offered five public apologies for his sons' antics and recently resigned from the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, which is praying the saga won't cloud December presidential elections. Koreans, though, are getting used to this. A son of former President Kim Young Sam was sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. Kim the elder can only look at his wayward scions and wonder where...
...weeks leading up to Summers’ China trip, the controversy over the studies had garnered attention in the Chinese press. An article in the Beijing-based People’s Daily called on Harvard and Millennium Pharmaceuticals—which funded some of the research—to provide restitution for participants in the studies...
Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 will leave Harvard this summer to accept a teaching appointment at Columbia University, a position which he has said will allow him to better coordinate his activities as special advisor to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals...