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...young professional with no car, a neurotic fear of flying and plenty of reasons to travel up and down the eastern seaboard, I'm exactly the kind of customer that should love taking the train. Amtrak wants me. They really do. But they're not getting...
...offices and federal terrorism task forces of the possibility of terrorist attacks on U.S. shopping malls and supermarkets. Beyond the increasingly pessimistic analysis on the part of U.S. officials, the impetus for the latest warning--quieter than the one four days earlier alerting Americans to possible attacks on Eastern-seaboard banks--was bolstered by comments from captured al-Qaeda strategist Abu Zubaydah, the source for the previous bank warning. Arabic-speaking CIA and FBI personnel continue to interrogate Abu Zubaydah at a secret overseas U.S. facility. They are now considering the possibility that Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian, may have studied...
...Zubaydah, the strategist for al-Qaeda nabbed in Pakistan last month, may be taunting the American military and intelligence personnel who visit his hospital bed at a secret facility overseas. He told them Osama bin Laden's terror cells are targeting U.S. banks on the Eastern seaboard, but the Americans wonder if it's for real. "If he could screw with our heads," says a U.S. official, "he probably would." When the interrogators' report reached Washington last Wednesday, it triggered a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush Administration officials. There was plenty of skepticism...
...ours," a U.S. official says sardonically. So last week, when the Palestinian fanatic, on the mend at a secret U.S. facility overseas, declared that among the next targets of Osama Bin Laden's terror cells would be U.S. banks along the Eastern seaboard, the Americans were inclined to wonder if he was merely taunting them. "He's a smart guy," says one US official familiar with Zubaydah's remarks. "If he could screw with our heads, he probably would...
...Thanks to an unusually dry winter, the Eastern seaboard is suffering from what some experts are calling the most severe drought on record; at least five states have declared drought emergencies. And in the Midwest it's almost as bad; crops are withering for lack of rainfall, and reservoir levels have dropped to dangerously low levels...