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...Canada into Washington State with explosives and bomb timers, testified that Abu Zubaydah planned al-Qaeda operations in the U.S. After Sept. 11, according to a U.S. official, American intelligence learned that one of the men trailed by Ken Williams--the FBI agent who last July wrote the famous Phoenix, Ariz., memo calling attention to a pattern of Arab radicals attending U.S. flight schools--had been linked through telephone calls to Abu Zubaydah. The man has now been deported. Abu Zubaydah is being interrogated at a secret location, and his disclosures--some of them bogus--about likely al-Qaeda operations...
...Qaeda operatives in the West are regrouping. In Italy an investigator concedes, "We're finding new people and need to identify their roles." That puts gumshoes and prosecutors back in the front line. One of the most dogged of the breed seems to be Williams, the FBI agent in Phoenix. Indeed, Williams' memo is an unwitting case study in just how far-reaching the network of Islamic extremism has become...
...PHOENIX Hijacker Hani Hanjour lived in Arizona for years (in February 2001, the FAA questioned him). On July 10, 2001, FBI agent Ken Williams sent HQ his now famous memo proposing a sweep of Middle Eastern students at flight schools...
...11th attacks. The memo, dated May 21st, goes on to angrily suggest that the agency's leadership is involved in "a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts?." and is making "a rush to judgment to protect the FBI at all costs." She also charged that critical information from the Phoenix bureau, raising a red flag about a suspicious influx of Middle Eastern men at flight instruction schools, and speculating about possible terror attacks, was ignored at the highest levels of government...
...such as Laverne & Shirley, The Cosby Show and M*A*S*H were a part of my life growing up. Reunion shows let us escape the pressures of work and home. Our favorite TV characters evoke fond memories and may even stay with us a while. JESSICA SEDA-RUIZ Phoenix, Ariz...