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...violence-prone Middle East, the Cairo airport is a virtual armed camp. Only ticketed passengers are admitted to the terminal. Steel barriers separate check-in counters from the rest of the building, which is under constant guard. Passengers undergo three passport checks. Hand luggage is searched, and checked baggage must be identified. Passengers are patted down before being bused to their planes. A final inspection is conducted at the aircraft door...
...through a travel agency, passengers do not generally pay for their seats until they get on the plane. During the flight, attendants come down the aisle collecting fares. They accept cash, credit cards, traveler's checks, money orders and personal checks (if the passenger writes a credit card or passport number on the back...
Meanwhile, the new spirit of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism began to bear fruit. Soon after apprehending Nezar Hindawi, a Palestinian reportedly carrying a Jordanian passport, on suspicion of attempting to blow up an El Al plane leaving London's Heathrow Airport on April 17, British authorities advised their counterparts in Berlin to arrest another Palestinian named Ahmed Nawaf Mansur Hasi. Inside Hasi's apartment, West German detectives found what appeared to be a sketch of the La Belle discothèque, where an explosion three weeks earlier had killed two people and left 230 wounded. They also discovered...
...formal cutaway suit. Hidden in his impeccably polished shoes, however, were hundreds of American dollars. In post-revolutionary Russia, he feared being imprisoned or shot for currency smuggling. But it was too late to worry about that. Confidence is the first rule, he thought to himself, reaching for his passport. Like Oscar Wilde, he would have nothing to declare but his genius...
Hindawi was not the only one on trial at the Old Bailey. According to Amlot, Hindawi told British police that Syrian military-intelligence officers had helped plan the attack, supplying him with a Syrian passport and $12,000 as well as the Czech-made plastic explosives found in Murphy's carry-on satchel. "There is convincing evidence," Amlot told the twelve jurors, "he was acting in concert with agents of the Syrian government." Hindawi has pleaded not guilty...