Word: montrealer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expected, Fox grew up fast, most certainly prematurely. Her teens were spotted with spells at a finishing school in Montreal and the Julliard School in New York, and by age 21 she had endured a failed marriage, given up a child for adoption and worked at a string of odd jobs, some days making shrimp cocktails and others painting Mexican scenes on pottery...
...forced many Canadians to focus an untrained eye on their own very 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...
...apply. If this were a "normal" case, he says, prosecution of bin Laden and others acting outside the United States in connection with the September 11th terrorist attack is possible, Paust says, under the Antiterrorism Act of 1990. It's also possible under U.S. legislation implementing the Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation...
Celine Dion, the French-Canadian who helped close the telethon with a rousing rendition of “God Bless America,” is planning to headline a Montreal show that will benefit victims as well. “Quebec-New York” is slated...
...months prior to his arrest, taking note of those with whom he met. That turned up names who'd cropped up elsewhere, and revealed some of the point men for the various regional networks with which Kamel had been put in contact. Based on Kamel's visits to Montreal, France's top anti-terrorist cop Jean-Louis Brugiere wanted to pay a call on Ahmed Ressam - but he was discouraged by incredulous Canadian authorities who considered the Algerian expatriate no more than a petty crook. This was the same Ahmed Ressam who in 1999 was arrested en route to Seattle...