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...summer of 2001, Reid was back in London. In July he obtained a new British passport in Amsterdam, claiming that he had accidentally put his old one through a washing machine, and flew to Israel on an El Al flight. Once in Israel, according to security sources there, Reid spent most of his time in Tel Aviv, where he cased the mall and office complex called the Azrieli Center as well as the local bus and train stations. ("Abdul Ra'uff" also checked security at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.) After 10 days in Israel, Reid...
...Reid was off again, this time to Brussels, where he applied for yet another new passport; an embassy spokeswoman says his previous one was worn. He stayed at the Hotel Dar Salam in the Belgian capital's Arab quarter, where travel agencies offer bus trips to North Africa and the air smells of figs, oranges and cous-cous. On most days, Reid walked into the city center to send e-mails from the Easynet Internet cafe...
...anonymity. William Harris, who served more than eight years in prison along with his ex-wife Emily for their role in kidnapping Hearst, married a lawyer, coaches soccer and works as a private investigator in San Francisco. Police pulled over William, formerly known as General Teko, in his Honda Passport SUV shortly after 8 a.m., as he was driving his kids to school. Emily, a computer consultant who has gone back to using her maiden name, Montague, was stopped near her suburban Los Angeles home. Michael Bortin, who runs Zen Hardwood Floors, was asleep when police called to say they...
...placement in a shoe and the sensitive detonation system required some expertise. Another sign Reid had help is that the sporadically employed ex-con somehow managed to pay cash for plane tickets and hotel rooms during extensive travels throughout Europe and the Middle East. Finally, Reid's "losing" his passport after spending a summer visiting Turkey, Israel and Egypt is classic al-Qaeda strategy, allowing him to avoid the suspicion a traveler through terrorist hot spots might draw. Rather than being a lone wolf, Reid, the French official said, is precisely the kind of guy terrorist groups seek...
...terrorist, it cannot know what price it will later pay. In the case of Maulana Masood Azhar, India thinks it knows now. In 1999 Azhar--at the time a leader of the radical militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen--was in an Indian jail on charges of carrying a fake passport, when masked gunmen hijacked an Indian Airlines jet to Afghanistan and demanded that India free him and two comrades. To protect the lives of the 155 passengers, New Delhi acquiesced. And now, India believes, Azhar, 34, as head of Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), is partly responsible...