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...years, cloak-and-dagger stories have circulated that Soviet suitcase nukes (also known as atomic demolition munitions, or ADMs) had gone unaccounted for and presumably ended up on the Russian black market. The Russians have offered confusing and conflicting statements about the disposition of their ADMs, leading some to suspect the worst. The ADMs weigh from 60 lbs. to 100 lbs., according to Bruce Blair, a former U.S. Air Force officer and expert on Soviet nuclear weapons. They could be carried in a case 8 in. by 16 in. by 24 in. The fissile material inside the mini-nukes degrades...
Agents have their reasons for being closemouthed--and not just, as their critics often suspect, so they can hog the credit and hype their conviction numbers. For one thing, agents are bound by stringent rules outlawing disclosure of grand-jury evidence. By late last week Mueller had met in Washington with representatives of local law-enforcement groups. He promised them that all 56 FBI field offices would establish joint terrorism task forces with local law enforcement. Just 35 offices have them now. He proposed allowing several members of local law-enforcement agencies access to the Strategic Information and Operations Center...
...comfort local police departments to know that the FBI is no more open when it deals with other federal agencies. For years the bureau has not provided U.S. consulates with direct access to the crime-suspect databases at its National Crime Information Center, though that would help overworked officials make more informed decisions on whether to grant visas. Things become even more complicated when the bureau has to deal with the CIA. The separation between foreign and domestic intelligence gathering is a long tradition of the U.S. security apparatus. In part this was a remedy for the excesses...
...believe Moussaoui was part of the group. Not so much as an ATM receipt connects him to the hijackers, and he was inquiring about lessons well after the others had finished theirs. These same officials wonder if he may have been part of another radical cell. They now suspect that the 20th hijacker was meant to be RAMZI BINALSHIBH, 29, a Yemeni who once shared an apartment with ringleader Mohamed Atta. On Sept. 21, Germany issued a warrant for Binalshibh, naming him as an accomplice in the attacks. U.S. investigators believe Binalshibh tried to enter the U.S. to take...
...Still, there were federal officials more inclined to suspect a homegrown freelance terrorist than a sophisticated network that had already displayed a taste for mass mayhem. They are analyzing the letters carefully; some veteran agents are convinced they were written by an American. "It's starting to fit in more with the loner who has a Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend...