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...celebrations at the end of 1999 approached, the CIA warned that it expected five to 15 attacks against American targets over the New Year's weekend. But three times, the U.S. got lucky. The Jordanians broke up an al-Qaeda cell in Amman; Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian based in Montreal, panicked when stopped at a border crossing from Canada while carrying explosives intended for Los Angeles International Airport; and on Jan. 3, 2000, an al-Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. The Sullivans in Yemen foundered after terrorists overloaded their small boat...
...their cozy, new 15,000-seat stadium, the Memphis Redbirds, a Triple-A team affiliated with the major-league Cardinals, are drawing the largest attendance in the minors. Despite finishing last in 2001, the team is on pace this year to outdraw the doomed Montreal Expos. Owner Dean Jernigan originally scanned the suburbs for a site, but his wife and co-owner Jean convinced him that a stadium downtown could help the city. AutoZone Park now anchors a revitalized section of Memphis once occupied by porn shops and empty lots...
...combination will probably produce another Williams final - but preferably one that will show the sisters at their best. ATHLETICS Doping Doubts Allegations that an American gold medal winner at the 2000 Olympics failed a drugs test a year before emerged during a World Anti-doping Agency summit in Montreal. According to a confidential enquiry chaired by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, the unnamed athlete tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone in July 1999. The athlete was given a two-year ban in March 2000, but was exonerated on appeal in time for the U.S. Olympic trials in July...
...camps and in running al-Qaeda operations, and his arrest, says Roland Jacquard, a leading French expert on Islamic terrorism, was "an enormous, stupendous blow to al-Qaeda." Abu Zubaydah seems to have specialized in organizing al-Qaeda operatives based in Europe and North America. Ahmed Ressam, the Montreal-based "millennium bomber" captured at the end of 1999 while attempting to cross from Canada into Washington State with explosives and bomb timers, testified that Abu Zubaydah planned al-Qaeda operations in the U.S. After Sept. 11, according to a U.S. official, American intelligence learned that one of the men trailed...
...doubt, many have already budgeted in some time for travel this summer. But while most Harvard students tend to be from urban or suburban areas, they also tend to travel to cities. Washington, New York, Boston, Montreal and San Francisco are all major summer destinations. But a pre-planned rush from point A to point B misses the point of the road trip...