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...things begin to heat up. Loud explosions from bombs dropped by U.S. F-16s can be heard in the center of the city. The insurgents respond with two salvos of mortar fire against Easy Company's base. Captain John Bailey, a soft-spoken F-18 pilot temporarily assigned here as a forward air controller, hauls his laser equipment onto the roof. He focuses his laser on a two-story building at the edge of town. He radios the pilot of an F-16 and orders an air strike. "Come on, bird," he says to himself. "You're going...
...content of the testimony Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney gave in the Oval Office remains confidential. But a source says Bush told the commission he had not been warned of the CIA'S and the FBI's concerns about would-be 747 pilot Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in August 2001. Yet Bush went out of his way to express confidence in CIA director George Tenet. Bush described his activities on Sept. 11 and explained how he communicated from the road with Cheney, in a secure bunker back at the White House. A top Administration aide explained this...
...Toomey is sort of like a Robin Hood guy. He wants to steal from the rich and give to the poor,” Slavitt says. “He is not in favor of PILOT [Payment In Lieu Of Taxes] and he wants Harvard to take in vastly more money than it does and he wants to give it to his constituency. Without Harvard or MIT, Cambridge basically is Everett or Somerville. It’s a great national ornament and it should be protected...
...hope is that if the court can make Kooris feel better understood and address the reasons for their law-breaking, they might finally turn their backs on crime. Halfway through the two-year pilot program, signs from the only metropolitan Aboriginal court in Australia to be established by an act of parliament are encouraging - of 80 defendants who've been sentenced, only five have offended again. Similar results are being seen in two regional pilots, and a Children's Court is now planned...
...suspects Williams mentioned did have al-Qaeda links; one trained with Hanjour at an Arizona flight school. A thorough investigation of flight schools might have led to one in Florida where an instructor recalled the odd behavior of 9/11 pilots Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi or to a California outfit that expelled al-Hazmi and al-Midhar for lack of flight skills and poor English. Had Williams' memo been sent to all FBI field offices, it could have set off alarms at the Minneapolis field office when would-be pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in August...