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...connections like terrorists have known to have in the past and analyze them before something happens." Chertoff asserts that if this kind of data mining had been in place before Sept. 11, federal authorities might have well known about the connections among the hijackers. Alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui, for example, used the same contact telephone number as some of the Sept. 11 hijackers. "The bottom line, from all I have seen, is that if we don't have this ability, we might as well blindfold our agents...
...area of the prison is "where they house the political offenders, what they call 'terrorists.'" There are many such men at ADX. The list of Arab inmates reads like a Who's Who of the international jihad. Apart from the bombers already mentioned, there are, among others, Zacarias Moussaoui, the sole individual convicted of involvement in the 9/11 attacks; Ahmed Ressam, arrested at the Canadian border with explosives he had planned to use to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport; and Abdul Hakim Murad, convicted in Operation Bojinka, a 1995 al-Qaeda scheme to blow 12 planes, 11 of them...
...secure enough? For the first decade after the ADX was built, the citizens of Florence weren't worried much about the secretive compound, which is only conspicuous when the sun goes down and its banks of light towers glow against the dark horizon. But when Moussaoui, the crazed 9/11 wannabe hijacker, arrived to considerable media fanfare in May 2006, some locals started to feel as if they were living beside a tempting terrorist target. People weren't so much concerned that someone would break out of the fortified ADX, but rather they wondered what would prevent an al-Qaeda squad...
...That dream ended on August 16, 2001, when Moussaoui, then 33, was arrested in Minnesota on an immigration violation as he was learning to pilot a plane. He immediately became the central figure of investigators' attention on the morning of Sept. 11. Although the case against him was eventually scaled back from charges that he was the "20th hijacker," he was convicted of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism in related to the 9/11 attacks and sentenced to life in prison. For el-Wafi, her son had gone far beyond even the backward attitudes she happily left behind...
...Much of the book deals with el-Wafi's phone calls with her son, visits to the U.S. for his trial, and efforts to improve his defense. But perhaps the most compelling aspects of her story involve the juxtaposition of her evolution and the French-born Moussaoui's worldview and hatred of the social values from which she had benefited. During one prison visit, for example, Moussaoui criticized el-Wafi's having taken out a bank loan to build the family house in Narbonne to avoid living in housing projects. Moussaoui also told her she was wrong not to have...