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Meanwhile, at the Westport Court apartment complex in southwest Portland where Battle and Lewis live, neighbors grew alarmed when the couple's son reportedly told another child that "Sept. 11 was a good thing." Residents called the fbi, and at least one agent moved in to observe, they say. The neighbors provided informal backup. "The fbi said I was not to approach them but I should listen for certain 'hot words,' like jihad," Matt Hawkey recalls. He and others routinely passed along license-plate numbers of the couple's visitors...
...Service estimates that combined domestic and international postal fraud now costs as much as $1 billion a year, up from $500 million in 1993. "International fraud is certainly an area where we are putting a lot more effort," says Tom Brady, the assistant postal inspector in charge of the Southwest division in Fort Worth, Texas. In May, Brady helped launch the Business Mailing Industry Task Force, an alliance between merchants and government agencies...
Twenty miles southwest of Scottsbluff, Jim Wyatt, 41, who has already stripped his fields of everything but baked, brown grass, is hoping he can find enough scrub weed in neighbors' pastures to feed his cattle. Others have sold entire herds for pennies a pound. "If you can't feed them, you can't keep them," says Wyatt. Dry-land farmers, who either can't afford the expensive irrigation water or live too far out to be able to use it, are in even worse shape...
Eddleston had a tough time pawning off a few rugs. An old Persian rug and an American Southwest number drew giggles from the crowd, and one small rug had the distinction of being the lowest-selling item, going for 50 cents...
...will be a long, hard haul. As the killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation of jihadists...