Word: millennium
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...rank-and-file guerrillas know the most sensitive details of operations. Abu Zubaydah, a young Saudi-born Palestinian who helped select recruits in Pakistan and organized the training camps in Afghanistan, now runs all bin Laden's international operations. He has been linked by investigators to the failed millennium bombing plots in both the U.S. and Jordan. Shaykh Said, the suspected paymaster in the Sept. 11 attacks, is bin Laden's elusive financial adviser...
...camera, demanding we take their picture despite Islam's injunction against representations of living things. Then we climbed into a Toyota pickup mounted with large-caliber machine guns for the ride to Bamiyan. All that remained of the 50-m and 36-m Buddhas, which for a millennium-and-a-half gazed out at armies, merchants and pilgrims, were faint outlines. Our escorts, delighted with their work, shot into the empty cavern where the smaller, supposedly female statue once stood. Then they presented us with the ultimate souvenir of Afghanistan's newest attraction: pieces of broken rock from the Buddhas...
...music that captures the themes of the day. Bob Dylan did it with ?Masters of War.? The Clash did it with albums like ?Sandinista!? and ?Combat Rock.? The political-minded hip-hop metal band Rage Against the Machine was a lonely voice of relevance in the 90s. The new millennium may produce rock, rap and pop that?s equal to the times...
...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 Sept. 13 claims to live in a Boston building where a bin Laden brother once resided...
...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...