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...most Americans, Osama bin Laden is the frightening face of international terrorism. But lately, Hizballah is almost as high on the feds' threat meter. "Al Qaeda has not been the only threat. Prior to September 11th, Hizballah had killed more Americans than any other terrorist group," FBI Director Robert Mueller said last year. Just three weeks ago, two alleged Hizballah soldiers were among several individuals indicted in Detroit - also in a cigarette smuggling scheme that the government said is linked to Hammoud's. Prosecutors allege that they, too, were raising money for Hizballah. And TIME has learned that...
When top officials at the FBI arrived for work last week, they had reason to feel even more anxious than usual. Beginning each day before dawn, FBI Director Robert Mueller and his top aides huddled on the seventh floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, reviewing overnight intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world. Taken together, the reports suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks: al-Qaeda operatives, in the words of a senior U.S. official, "are in the execution phase of some of their operations." The intelligence sources couldn't pinpoint the kind...
...Carle's works are being spun into anything nearly so ambitious as the Sunny Patch brand, Miss Spider's line of goods. Target, Callaway and Kirk think that doesn't matter. "Our core guest [i.e., customer] is a busy mom with young children. She's highly educated," says Sally Mueller, Target's director of marketing planning. "Many of our core guests have read David Kirk's books, so we thought it was a logical connection." In other words, why should TV have all the spoils? "We believe, naively or otherwise," says Callaway, "that books are capable of creating the deepest...
...agency." Modeled on Britain's domestic-security outfit, the MI5, the agency would bring together counterterrorism specialists from the FBI, the CIA and other government agencies. The Bush Administration is studying the idea, but at least one government official has publicly denounced it: this month Mueller insisted that the FBI is "uniquely situated" to fight terrorists and said the creation of a new department would be "a step backward in the war on terror." But if Mueller hopes to win the argument, he needs to convince his critics that the FBI is moving ahead. --By Romesh Ratnesar and Timothy...
...were improper. In January, when a congressional subcommittee investigating Enron's collapse released that letter, Watkins became a reluctant public figure, and the Year of the Whistle-Blower began. Coleen Rowley is the FBI staff attorney who caused a sensation in May with a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller about how the bureau brushed off pleas from her Minneapolis, Minn., field office that Zacarias Moussaoui, who is now indicted as a Sept. 11 co-conspirator, was a man who must be investigated. One month later Cynthia Cooper exploded the bubble that was WorldCom when she informed its board that...