Word: passport
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...course, that could make life easier for you too. What if your state/national ID card was your passport as well as your drivers' license? What if you could do your taxes at an ATM - and then withdraw your refund? Or what if your national ID card was your ATM card, and your credit card, and your HMO card and your work ID and the passkey to your maximum-security apartment, all at once? There's the freedom to continue to come and go as you please, in (relative) anonymity, and there's the freedom to carry a dozen different cards...
...using a forged passport while committing a terrorist act, be sure to carry supporting documentation with the same name, and have a good cover story for why you have the passport. That diabolical tourist tip was among the terrorist how-tos contained in a trove of handwritten notes found earlier this month in a house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, abandoned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network...
...both he and Dahman were members of a radical group that played a major role in sending new recruits to Afghanistan and providing false documents and other support to those returning to Europe to form terror cells. He said he bought the airline tickets and obtained the fake Belgian passport that Dahman used to get to Afghanistan last year...
...police detained Mounir el-Moutassadeq, who is believed to have had links with the Hamburg cell members who died in the Sept. 11 hijackings. Prosecutor Kay Nehm said el-Moutassadeq is accused of "knowingly supporting the terrorist organization with logistical measures." In Belgium, an Algerian man was arrested for passport forgery. He and two men being held in France may have been part of a ring suspected of supplying false papers to the assassins of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. And in Italy, police took two alleged al-Qaeda recruiters into custody...
...FIRST CLASS Travel checklist: passport, tickets--and support stockings? Researchers report that "compression stockings," elastic socks or hose that fit tightest around the ankles, can dramatically decrease the risk of developing dangerous blood clots on long air flights (the so-called coach-class syndrome). For patients who are already at high risk of clots--because they've had them before or have other circulatory problems like large varicose veins--something completely different seemed to do the trick: a shot of the blood thinner heparin one or two hours before flying cut the risk of clotting to nearly zero...