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...leave much room for error, but despite the doomsayers, the Athenians delivered the Olympic Games when they said they would, and with some style. The volunteers, visible even in the city's outer suburbs in their bright uniforms, make their way to the venues helping everyone in their path, whether they need it or not. They are as willing and as charming as their counterparts in Sydney were, and the locals, even those who can't afford the high ticket prices, are welcoming...
...Bombs aren't the only weapons Abu Sayyaf uses. "They are setting up an urban assassination squad called Fisabillilah, or 'The Path of God,'" says Kit Colliers of the Australian National University in Canberra, who has written a detailed report on Islamic militancy and terrorism in the Philippines for the International Crisis Group. Security officials in Manila say half a dozen alleged Abu Sayyaf operatives arrested in June for possession of materials for explosives were members of the squad. "Thank God we got them before the President's inauguration," says outgoing Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita, referring to Arroyo's swearing...
Hurricane Charley ripped, helter-skelter, through Florida and up the East Coast last week, leaving bitter lessons in its path. First, there was the reminder that hurricanes are devilishly hard to predict. Last year, meteorologists at Miami's National Hurricane Center demonstrated remarkable accuracy with their storm-landing forecasts. But on Friday, after a million people were ordered to evacuate the Tampa area, Charley slammed into the shoreline 100 miles to the south instead. The 145-m.p.h. winds twisted aluminum siding as if it were gift ribbon and snapped 100-year-old pine trees. Then, as people raced inland...
...difficult to drive trucks or vans into the parking lot. Black limousines, however, could approach without much trouble. The report proposed acquiring a limo, gutting everything except the front seats and presumably filling it with explosives. It then provided details on the New Jersey Transit rail system and nearby PATH trains and maps of the network and train timetables--suggesting that instead of deploying a suicide-bomb squad, al-Qaeda may have been exploring ways to escape after pulling off the attack...
DATA GATHERED Terrorists conducted heavy surveillance of the parking garage beneath the structure in Newark, N.J. They noted the repeated entry of black limos but doubted whether trucks and vans would be allowed in. Reports include extensive information on the New Jersey Transit and PATH passenger-rail systems, maps of the network and train timetables...