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Moussaoui was arrested Aug. 17 after an instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy's facility in Eagan, Minn., became suspicious of his request for use of the flight simulator. Moussaoui reportedly showed keen interest in mid-air navigation--and utter indifference to the landing sequence. His instructor then alerted the FBI, and Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. It turned out that he has long been suspected in his native France of involvement in terrorist organizations, and the French had been seeking his extradition before Sept...
Unfortunately, Western and Central Mass are not as gloriously connected to Boston; think Greyhound or Peter Pan for transportation. On the edge of the state lie the Berkshires, mountains unparalleled in radiance especially during the fall. Pittsfield is the main jump off point for most commercial vacations and is accessible by plane, train, bus, and for the fortunate car. It hosts multiple activities throughout the year from hiking, skiing, to biking with information available at www.berkshires.org...
...allies at this point include such bastions of Western ideals as Pakistan and the struggling former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. American determination to form a pan-national anti-terror coalition has even led it to make overtures to other states that stand accused of supporting terrorism: Iran and Syria both come to mind. The trouble is that, while the governments of these nations may be willing to ignore previously cold relations with the U.S. or to cooperate for the sake of debt relief and favor in the eyes of the world’s only superpower, their citizens...
...against al-Qaeda will be a conflict like no other. A loose network of two dozen terrorist groups united by Osama Bin Laden's pan-Islamic vision, "the Base" may have as many as 5,000 members in terrorist cells in at least 50 countries, including...
...many possible answers, but few feel sufficient. Theologically, some Middle Eastern sheiks justify suicide bombings on the basis of Muslim medieval traditions, although most of their colleagues worldwide disagree. Politically, campaigns against Muslims in Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya and Israel create a nationalist desperation that can draw even secularists to pan-Islamic dreamer-schemers like bin Laden, especially when they can offer a checkbook and organizational savvy. Then there is globalization. When Islam stopped gaining territory in the Middle Ages, its thinkers developed mechanisms for coexisting with a permanent Western other. But to new theorists like bin Laden, globalization represents...