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...time wasting, which she said was delaying the passage of important legislation. Bill English, leader of the National Party, disputed the charge, and accused Clark of manipulating the people of New Zealand. The U.S. Dirty Bomber The White House backed off from its initial alarm over an alleged plot to explode a "dirty bomb," a conventional explosive laced with a radioactive element. The U.S. government said that the threat of such an attack on an American city was minimal. The clarification followed U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement of the arrest in May of José Padilla, an American...
...Qaeda plot was broken up this week - a well-organized conspiracy involving hardened, well-trained bin Laden operatives taking instructions from the surviving operational core of the organization, with the know-how, experience and the means to kill dozens of unsuspecting Americans. And it was busted through timely cooperation by a number of different intelligence agencies...
...That plot, of course, had nothing to do with Jose Padilla, or his notorious alter ego, Abdullah al-Mujahir. It concerned three Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda operatives recently relocated to Morocco, who had planned to use a rubber dinghy packed with explosives to attack U.S. Navy vessels passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. The reason you're probably only faintly aware, if aware at all, of the foiled Morocco plot is that the U.S. media has been dominated this week by a mug-shot of former Chicago gangbanger Padilla, and talk of "dirty bombs...
...pleasures of "Tuesday and Thursday," and from Andrew Zaben's other books, comes from having to do some work. You want plot but the stories are open-ended. You want clear relationships but you don't always know what's going on. You want motivations but you just get clues instead. But as we all know, the rewards you work for are much sweeter than the ones given...
...announcement of a foiled "dirty bomb" plot - or at least the apprehension of a plotter who hadn't quite formulated his plan - serves as a timely reminder that congressional probes into pre-September 11 intelligence failures are taking place in the midst of continuing peril. But like those vague threat warnings that periodically emanate from the authorities these days, Monday's announcement of the detention of Abdullah al Muhajir poses more questions than it answers...