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...would-be suicide bomber, but the purpose of this surreptitious meeting is not to plan an attack on the Israeli forces patrolling the camp; he's there to tell the story of his life. On five consecutive nights last March, a German-born Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker named Raid Sabbah interviewed the masked man, a 29-year-old he calls Said. In his new book, Der Tod ist ein Geschenk (Death is a Gift, Droemer; 253 pages), Sabbah offers a rare glimpse inside the mind of a suicide bomber. "I wanted to describe the situation of the Palestinians," Sabbah...
...other two men with Scotland Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north London flat the week before. Seven arrests of North Africans, mostly Algerians, had followed from that discovery, and police believed there could be others involved. But the Manchester raid was to have far graver consequences. It ended not just in four arrrests - one the following day - but in the murder of a policeman. The killing happened after the police had been in the apartment for more than an hour. In a violent struggle, five of the officers were injured...
...Qaeda? Michael John Hamdani, 44, became just that after a shopping spree late last October in Brampton, a city west of Toronto. The owners of a shop that he and a friend had patronized believed they had received bogus U.S. traveler's checks and alerted the police. A raid on the homes of Hamdani and his pal turned up an array of big-screen TVs and other luxury goods, $600,000 in forged American Express and Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk-screen equipment, ink stamps like those used by consular officials...
...finds itself at the nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda's numbers are swelling," says independent French terror expert Roland Jacquard. "Each raid that involves the arrest of several known operatives also turns up names and pseudonyms of people investigators never heard of. These names, which have neither faces nor backgrounds, number in the hundreds now." Just how the suspects came to be apprehended last week has not been revealed. But information from...
...These follow the September release of the CD "Elvis: 30 #1 Hits," which ruled the Billboard chart for weeks - Presley's 10th top-ranked album in 47 years! OK, so in 1987 RCA issued "The Number One Hits," and that one contained only 18 songs. So they had to raid other lists besides Billboard's to pad it out. So who's going to kvetch about 12 free songs...