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...insurance policies that no competitors would risk--and squeezing the most out of every opportunity. His global heft was so valued by the government that in the 1980s he was dispatched on state business to the Philippines, where AIG subsidiary Philippine American Life Insurance is the largest insurer. His mission: make clear to President Ferdinand Marcos that foreign investors were uneasy with the unstable government; he should step down or conduct fair elections. (Marcos didn't listen and ultimately fled in disgrace.) In the early 1990s Greenberg met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin and won approval...
...agency required plants to be able to thwart an attack by little more than an armed gang--three outsiders equipped with handheld automatic weapons and aided by a confederate working inside the plant. After 9/11, when al-Qaeda showed the ability to produce 19 operatives for a suicide mission on a single day, some security specialists anticipated a significant hike in the DBT. But the number of attackers in the revised DBT is less than double the old figure and a fraction of the size of the 9/11 group. (The NRC regards the exact number as an official secret...
...security at the plant. Wackenhut Corp., the giant security company that employed her, says she was terminated for failing to improve security. "Security at the plant is pathetic," says Davidson. "It's just too confusing." Because there were too few guards, she says, each had to fulfill a different mission, depending on how an attack unfolded. "One person could have as many as seven places to go," she says. When Davidson complained, she says, she was told "to keep my mouth shut, that nothing was going to change." Since the plant's post-9/11 security plan took effect last...
...Qahtani: I wasn't told the mission...
...Each day, the interrogators seem to be trying to find those that work best. They promise better treatment; they show him pictures of 9/11 victims, particularly children and the elderly. They talk about God's will and al-Qahtani's guilt. They tell him that he failed on his mission and hint that other comrades have been captured and are talking about his role in the plot. They play on his emotions, saying he should talk if he ever wants to see his family or friends or homeland again...