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...using fund-raising investigations like the one in Charlotte to nab operatives like Hammoud while trying to roll up any possible plans for violence. As FBI agent Swecker put it: "These fund-raising cases were good ways to get in and see what they were doing. And if we had to wait and see what they were doing - I mean that'd be way too late." So far, neither Hammoud's gang nor other Hizballah operatives are accused of planning specific attacks here. But Conrad noted that the government filed an affidavit citing a confidential source who said that...
...each, will hop aboard boats and dive into the water near the ships they are protecting. Their keen eyes and hearing allow them to detect intruders or mines far better than their human counterparts. A sea lion can swim up to 25 m.p.h. for short bursts, enabling it to nab an underwater foe by snaring it in a clamp placed in its mouth. The sea lion then hands its prey, whether a submerged mine or a swimmer, over to human handlers...
...Bush aides admit privately that the month it took to build up forces for the invasion of Afghanistan gave bin Laden and his senior leaders plenty of time to carry out evacuation plans. The military is a lot less keen to confess that it blew its best opportunity to nab him in the December assault on Tora Bora. Washington committed too few American troops to the hunt, even some U.S. military officers say, while relying on iffy Afghan warlords to do the dirty work and indifferent Pakistani forces to cut off escape routes. Bin Laden vanished so completely that...
...true that CIA and Pakistani agents have worked together to nab al-Qaeda senior aides such as Binalshibh and Palestinian bin Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan's big cities. But the tribal zone is a different story--a sensitive region. U.S. commandos, now mostly confined to the Afghan side of the border, are rarely allowed to raid possible mountain hideouts on the Pakistan side, whether by themselves or with Pakistani officers. Under the current delicate political climate for the government of Musharraf, say senior U.S. and Pakistani officials, that would be a mission impossible. Many of the deeply religious...
...steaks and tea worth a total of $27.37 from a Tacoma grocer. Two months later, he visited an old Army buddy, Robert Edward Holmes, who claims that Muhammad showed him two rifles and a book on silencers, according to the arrest warrant that the feds would later use to nab Muhammad. "Can you imagine the damage you would do if you could shoot with a silencer?" Muhammad allegedly asked Holmes...