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...just very confused about what’s going on and what point we are at in terms of deciding things,” Lao said. “I just want to hear something from them...
...Zazi take this step? "It's sometimes difficult to determine exactly at what point it was that somebody becomes radicalized and then decides to become a terrorist," a senior Obama Administration official tells TIME. "Usually it's an evolutionary process." And what does it mean to have an Afghan immigrant take up al-Qaeda's cause? The worst-case scenario, according to experts, is that Zazi may represent an effort by the Taliban to expand its attacks on U.S. interests. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, believes the Taliban's worldview has changed since...
...Except by then, Zazi wasn't. It's unclear exactly when the authorities first listened in on Zazi's phone calls, but sometime around late August, according to an intelligence official briefed on the case, he was heard talking "about chemical mixtures and other things." At that point, the FBI shifted into high gear. Agents quickly picked up the trail and discovered, according to court documents and other sources, that Zazi and at least three associates were shopping for chemicals at beauty-supply stores in the Denver area using stolen credit cards. At the Beauty Supply Warehouse on East Sixth...
...Sept. 6, Zazi returned to the kitchenette for another night over the stove, punctuated by frantic calls to still unknown accomplices seeking bombmaking advice. On Sept. 8, he rented a car, arranging to drop it off in New York City. At that point, the investigation "amped up" again, the intelligence official says, as agents asked themselves the obvious question, "What does he have in his car that he can't put in an airplane? And who's waiting on the other end?" The timing was alarming: the eighth anniversary of 9/11 loomed, and Obama was due in Manhattan days later...
...Witless Bay Ecological Reserve About 40 minutes south of St. John's, the small fishing community of Bay Bulls is the departure point for puffin-and whale-watching cruises through this reserve. It's home to a half-million-strong Atlantic-puffin colony that is North America's largest. A 90-minute catamaran trip with marine-tour operator Gatherall's, www.gatheralls.com, will whisk you out to Gull Island, which teems with birdlife during the April to August breeding season. From July, humpback whales begin to arrive: keep your eyes peeled...