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...When the U.S. captured Zubaydah in a daring raid in Pakistan in late March it was the biggest catch of the war on al-Qaeda so far. The 31-year-old, born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian parents, was the Number 3 man on the al-Qaeda org chart. He'd been in charge of the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda taught many Europe-based Arabs. His fingerprints appear on most of the group's terrorist plots during the past few years: Zubaydah was implicated in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa; he allegedly played...
After being provoked like that, I visit the Henry L. Stimson Center (www.stimson. org), which has a free library of frequently updated reports that tell you more than most people want to know about biochemical terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Some other recommended sites include Parameters, the U.S. Army War College's journal (carlisle-www.army. mil/usawc/Parameters), which is to the Army what the New England Journal of Medicine is to doctors; the Center for Strategic and International Studies www.csis.org) which has great stuff on fighting Iraq; and the Pentagon's official news outlet www.defenselink.mil/news)--be sure to check its special...
...controversial new American law, the 1999 Anti-Cyber-Squatting Consumer Protection Act, in a highly aggressive way. The act allows organizations to gain control of misappropriated domain names in U.S. courtrooms - even if those addresses are owned by people outside the U.S. Critics object that .com, .net and .org are global domain names, and thus U.S. courts should have no jurisdiction over them. "The Internet does not have any boundaries, so it has to be global," says Andrew McLaughlin, chief policy officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which administers domain names. "If the U.S. Congress...
...meeting with Shihab to discuss Moluccas 30. Dead Sea Scrolls scribe 33. "Human" or "fact" follower 36. Use 20-Across 40. Fenway star Garciaparra 41. __ aves (unique individuals) 43. Prosodic foot 45. Pt. after deuce 46. No-goodniks 47. Blair among others: abbr. 48. Org. whose president-elect backs a moratorium on capital punishment 49. __ Diemen's Land (Tasmania, once) 51. A place to lose 52. The Waste Land monogram...
...headline-speak 48. Site of 50th-anniversary observance of the Korean War's first casualties 50. The Supreme Court struck down its law banning partial-birth abortions 53. The 9-Down has met with Fujimori to push for reforms here 54. Dreaded '60s draft status 55. Reuther's org. 56. Give walking papers to 57. The American Heart Association has agreed to support __-cell research 58. Org. that Bush wants to split...