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ITALY Rome Attack Foiled A police raid on a suburb southeast of Rome may have thwarted a possible biochemical attack in the Italian capital. Four Moroccan men were arrested after 4 kg of a powdered cyanide-based substance were found in their apartment, along with city maps indicating the U.S. embassy and charts of Rome's water system. The arrests were made as a Milan court convicted four Tunisians, including the alleged al-Qaeda regional head, Ben Khemais, of trafficking in chemicals, explosives and false documents...
...Continued campaign of dumb stunts designed to annoy Harvard President Larry Summers into letting my student-led labor activist group decide how to spend Harvard’s budget. Today: Stand outside his house while he’s in Europe. Tomorrow: Panty raid on Loeb House...
...next year's budget. Job training, agriculture and highway construction get big slices, for example. But voters so far acknowledge, at least theoretically, that pet projects will have to suffer for war effort. For the moment, Democrats believe they can draw blood by focusing on Bush's raid of the surpluses in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. The budget he released last week projects that $1.73 trillion will have to be diverted from the two trust funds to pay for tax cuts and other programs from 2002 to 2012. Polls show that voters, particularly baby boomers, are nervous...
...children's faces darken when they hear mention of Abu Sayyaf. Better off are the seven youngsters, the eldest 16, recently released by Abu Sayyaf after spending two years carrying bullets and scouting for them. And, perversely, a mother who saw her husband and brother killed during a rebel raid, but saved her son and herself - by allowing herself to be raped by the group...
...procurement and distribution of forged passports were a means of generating personal income and not of assisting terrorists. Prosecutors contend they have convincing evidence to the contrary. First, they note, fake passports containing spelling and grammatical errors identical to those belonging to Cherifi were discovered in a December 2000 raid of an al-Qaeda cell in Frankfurt. And telephone numbers for members of that group, who were alleged to have been plotting an attack on Strasbourg's Cathedral and Christmas market, were found on Cherifi's mobile phone...