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...MASSIMO CALABRESI covers diplomacy and national security from the Washington bureau and has been all over this continuing story. That makes sense, because he has written about the attack on the U.S.S. Cole and the foiled millennium bombing plot. Chat with him on Tuesday at 8 p.m. E.T. on AOL, Keyword: Live...
...liberal immigration policies, which some argue serve as an open invitation to terrorists intent on making their way south into the U.S. Case in point: Ahmed Ressam, a 34-year-old Algerian national who was based in Montreal and decided to take a trip to Los Angeles for the millennium celebration. He was stopped by U.S. border police with 118 pounds of explosives and four timing devices in the trunk of his car. Authorities believe Ressam was planning to blow up LAX just in time for the New Year...
...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...