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...recruitment video shown to TIME, in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, suggests that resistance fighters are trying to line up Iraqis for suicide bombings, which U.S. officials have so far thought were mainly the work of foreign fighters. The video features testimonials from five "martyrs"; two speak with Saudi accents, says an interpreter who watched the video, but two others have Iraqi accents. One man, the video claims, bombed the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. Another is identified as a Kurd who bombed a CIA office in Arbil. The video aims to motivate recruits by showing footage of Iraqis being forced...
...that at least two--and possibly six more--of the 9/11 hijackers carried passports that had been "manipulated in a fraudulent manner." The commission declined to elaborate, but senior counterterrorism officials tell TIME the fraud was an example of al-Qaeda's clever tradecraft and attention to detail. The Saudi passports the hijackers carried were genuine, and so were the visas to the U.S. But investigators believe the hijackers obtained fresh passports after telling Saudi authorities they had "lost" their old ones, presumably to cover up trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Then, knowing that spanking-new passports would raise questions...
...toured the world to illustrate common threads in the human fabric. But that exhibition involved scores of photographers. Arthus-Bertrand spearheads his own effort, though even his most delicate images require something like a paramilitary operation--his team now totals 15--to handle planning and logistics. Some nations, like Saudi Arabia and China, have yet to give him flyover permission. "One problem with doing aerial photography," he explains dryly, "is that people think...
...recruitment video shown to TIME, in a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, suggests that resistance fighters are trying to line up Iraqis for suicide bombings, which U.S. officials have so far thought were mainly the work of foreign fighters. The video features testimonials from five "martyrs"; two speak with Saudi accents, says an interpreter who watched the video, but two others have Iraqi accents. One man, the video claims, bombed the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. Another is identified as a Kurd who bombed a CIA office in Arbil. The video aims to motivate recruits by showing footage of Iraqis being forced...
...others say they are also fighting for Palestine against American and Jewish aggression. Three of the six men speak with a noticeably non-Iraqi accent, according to Iraqi and foreign journalists who have also seen the tape. Sources within the Iraqi insurgency tell TIME that a Syrian, a Saudi and a Yemeni were among the alleged suicide bombers. The source, also described how Iraqi insurgents act as guides for the foreigners as they set up the attacks...