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...this north London neighborhood. Prominent terror suspects have found inspiration there, including alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, now in a U.S. prison, and Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian who is now in French custody and believed to have taken orders from Abu Zubaydah, a top associate of Osama bin Laden. Some members of the alleged ricin gang are also rumored to have attended the Finsbury Park mosque. Britain may now be taking a harder line with Abu Hamza. The one-eyed cleric, who lost both hands and an eye to a landmine in Afghanistan, could be suspended from...
...could say that pop culture was the one American institution that whipped terrorism. Osama bin Laden would have liked little better than to subdue America's entertainment-media machine. That thong-wearing, freedom-flaunting international corrupter of values inflames his followers as painfully as any military base in Saudi Arabia, and there is no irony in Osama's Islam. But pop culture, as it turns out, is the Western equivalent of al-Qaeda: it's hard to kill because it is borderless, amorphous and stateless, and because it throws back at you the weapons you use against...
...like many of his lyrics, arrogant, self-aggrandizing--and true. Beyond the self-serving message--those other records are boring, so buy mine--the lyric was also a pointed rejection of the get-alongism that prevailed after 9/11. (As if his words weren't enough, he dressed up as Osama bin Laden in the video.) On the album's opening cut, White America, the rapper whose lyrics preoccupied moralists in Congress in the summer of 2000--when they had more time on their hands--declared war on the Bush Administration and slammed his critics as racial hypocrites who discovered...
...Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape said to be of Osama bin Laden's voice. Uh-oh, he's still alive
...request for a search warrant of his computer. Agents had had him arrested for overstaying his visa while they looked into his past. As Rowley wrote in her memo, French officials and other intelligence sources established that Moussaoui was affiliated with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama bin Laden. Minneapolis agents pushed headquarters for approval to dig deeper, fearing--before Sept. 11--that he might be part of a larger scheme to hijack commercial jetliners. He has since been indicted as a co-conspirator...