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...Germany's Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg and shared an apartment with Al-Shehhi. According to German chief prosecutor Kay Nehm, they were linked with a group formed with the "aim of carrying out serious crimes, together with other Islamic extremist groups abroad, to attack the U.S. in a spectacular way through the destruction of symbolic buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Breed of Terrorist | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...Baseball, football, golf and even Michael Jordan sat out last week, sensing that perhaps whatever comfort sports may bring us was not adequate in the wake of spectacular disaster. The players are back in action as of Monday, participants clad in newly flag-dotted uniforms. Sporting events are drawing Americans together, our games suddenly less about individual egos than about serving their original purpose - giving us all a chance to sing the national anthem, chat with our neighbors and watch our peacetime heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shockwaves: America Picks Up the Pieces | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...time the intelligence was too vague to indicate the scale of the operation. In the summer U.S. embassies, particularly those in the Middle East, were put on heightened alert, as was the U.S. military in the region. The CIA was getting vague reports "of some kind of spectacular happenings" by terrorists, said a U.S. intelligence official, but the reports were vague as to timing. "A lot of this reporting we had in the summer that gained our attention and had us concerned, but wasn't specific, could have been tied to this," said a U.S. intelligence official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Want To Humble An Empire | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...sure, the U.S. had plenty of reasons to believe Bin Laden would try and strike at its cities. He's tried before, for one thing, and the motivation to launch a spectacular attack would have grown exponentially over the past year as anti-American feeling surged on the Arab streets in response U.S. support for Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Didn't We Know? | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...time the intelligence was too vague to indicate the scale of the operation. In the summer U.S. embassies, particularly those in the Middle East, were put on heightened alert, as was the U.S. military in the region. The CIA was getting vague reports "of some kind of spectacular happenings" by terrorists, said a U.S. intelligence official, but the reports were vague as to timing. "A lot of this reporting we had in the summer that gained our attention and had us concerned, but wasn't specific, could have been tied to this," said a U.S. intelligence official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Day of the Attack | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

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