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Hamdani never claimed his customers were terrorists, and there is no evidence he or they had any connection to al-Qaeda. But his story arrived in Washington as U.S. security officials were going on full holiday alert. Pakistani authorities came up with information about an alien-smuggling scheme that dovetailed with the forger's account. On Dec. 27, Islamabad gave the FBI photos and names or aliases of five men thought to be among the 19 smuggled aliens Hamdani had served. The U.S. quickly put out an unusually prominent all-points bulletin for the five. "We don't have...
...It’s undoubtedly a tremendous loss for Harvard,” she said. “But in the larger scheme we are lucky to have an intellectual human being out there writing social commentary. It’s where she can make the largest contribution...
Dartmouth’s ability to hang on was aided by a late first-half rally, and a defensive scheme that had not let Harvard’s leading scorer, senior guard Patrick Harvey (15.5 ppg), put any points on the board...
...when he was Chief of Staff of the Army--Marshall was chosen again as a man of peace: the Secretary of State who conceived the Marshall Plan, which promised to underwrite the economic recovery of postwar Europe's democracies. Through his bold scheme, said TIME, "the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act ... took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
...Rowley wrote in her memo, French officials and other intelligence sources established that Moussaoui was affiliated with radical fundamentalist Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama bin Laden. Minneapolis agents pushed headquarters for approval to dig deeper, fearing--before Sept. 11--that he might be part of a larger scheme to hijack commercial jetliners. He has since been indicted as a co-conspirator...