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...close ties to his own party, openly rejected Vajpayee's exhortation to call off the temple construction plan and vowed to proceed on March 15. More than 15,000 Hindu activists have moved into Ayodhya for the job, and the site is now guarded by hundreds of Indian security personnel. The train massacre has only deepened the VHP's determination to force a confrontation on the temple issue. With communal tensions already past boiling point, Ayodhya threatens once again to spark nationwide bloodletting...
Alarmed at the lab reports, FBI director Bob Mueller sent an urgent alert to the FAA, air-security personnel and the law-enforcement community. He ordered agents based in Europe to find out how Reid had acquired the explosives...
...Termite's Israeli garrison, it gets bad at night. The soldiers are at their most vulnerable as they rumble 20 min. along the muddy road in an armored personnel carrier to their post. On a recent night, two grenades exploded near a cramped APC that was transporting TIME reporters into Termite. The isolated clutch of soldiers fought off a series of attacks through the night while 22 more grenades exploded outside. Termite's paramedic, Lior Raviv, says the troops feel "very exposed...
...raised tensions anew. U.S. grumbling about a lack of Saudi cooperation in the war on terrorism quickly escalated into calls in Congress for Washington to consider reducing its presence at the Prince Sultan Air Base (P-SAB in military jargon), where the U.S. has 6,000 Air Force personnel patrolling Iraqi skies. The problem was initial Saudi hesitation in allowing the Pentagon to use a new U.S.-built command-and-control center at P-SAB to conduct the drive against bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan. Known as the Combined Air Operations Center, or CAOC, the vast underground...
...attacks, Administration officials signaled that there would soon be thousands of them - enough to cover every one of the 30,000 daily flights in the U.S. "We'll have many more air marshals on flights," President Bush boasted last October. But many pilots, flight attendants and airline-operations personnel from carriers across the country tell Time they have never had a FAM on any of their flights. A Transportation Security Administration spokesman says virtually all information about the FAM program, including the budget, is classified and can't be discussed. But the agency has opened a second air-marshal training...