Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Detroit Sleeper Cell Sept. 17, 2001 Arrested with airport-security passes and fake IDs, charged with ID fraud and providing material support to terrorists The two accused men were found guilty in 2003, but the judge dismissed the convictions after discovering that prosecutors had kept some evidence from the defense...
...show portrays a Turkish-American Muslim family in Los Angeles, Western in appearance and lifestyle, as a terrorist sleeper cell. In a news story that appeared in the Edmonton Times, a Fox spokesman refused comment when asked about the questionable content of the show. But the fact remains that 24’s facile and harmful representation of this “model” terrorist cell exceeds what is realistic and what is necessary for the show’s entertainment value. The show makes sure to convey how long this family lived in the United States, participated...
ANALYSIS: St. Lawrence shouldn’t be very good, and, from a pure talent perspective, isn’t. But the Saints have pulled off four major upsets—against Michigan St., Maine and Miami twice—in just eight games, earning them early-season potential sleeper consideration. Whether they can be consistent for the rest of the season is a wholly separate question, though. The answer will rest heavily on the shoulders of netminder Mike McKenna, who has been solid in goal thus far this year...
...kinda sucks, but what can you do?” shrugged Faith Sleeper, a senior at American University, as she stood beside a group of security guards. Sleeper spent Election Night watching returns and munching on elephant-shaped cookies with other Republicans on her campus. Following Bush’s remarks, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking Republican officials walked through a row of cheering onlookers as they exited the building...
...tanker and smashing it into a building." The British cell leader, Dhiren Barot--a.k.a. Issa al-Hindi--traveled to New York City in early 2001, according to The 9/11 Commission Report, "to case potential economic and 'Jewish' targets." U.S. officials hope to learn from the continuing investigation whether a sleeper cell remained in the U.S. to carry out these missions. --By Adam Zagorin and Elaine Shannon