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German authorities now believe that sometime that year, Atta began touching base with a wide range of people connected to terrorism. They point to his association with a Syrian businessman, Mamoun Darkazanli, who had power of attorney for a German bank account in the name of a man thought to be Osama bin Laden's finance chief. Darkazanli denied any ties to terrorists last week...
...days passed, teachers fielded some of the most difficult questions yet. Sons learned their fathers had been called up by the National Guard. Would they too be drafted? Would the SATs matter anymore? Senior Marc Munfakh, 17, talked with his teachers about why his parents wanted to change their Syrian last name to something all-American like Masters or Smith. And he also talked to God. "As high schoolers we've never really had big problems," says Munfakh, "so it's been difficult for me to know what to pray for." Now the words come easily. --By Jodie Morse
...active and militant, much more politically organized force." The shift has been evident both in the hallways of power and on the streets. Last week Kahn attended the U.N.'s racism conference as an official member of the French government's delegation. Two months earlier, the state visit of Syrian President Bashar Assad - who in May made anti-Semitic comments in a speech in front of the Pope - provoked demonstrations in major cities throughout France...
...sure, Israel's northern towns have been left unmolested despite the withdrawal, although Hizballah has continued to attack Israeli forces in the Shebaa Farms district, which the Lebanese militia claims as part of Lebanon but the United Nations recognizes as part of the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Hizballah also claims it is fighting on to press for the release of Lebanese and Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. But the fact that Syria is the de facto military power in Lebanon and sets the rules within which Lebanese groups operate, Hizballah's continued campaign has been widely interpreted...
...revealed in the contents of a fishing boat intercepted near Haifa en route from Lebanon to Gaza on Monday. Israeli authorities said the vessel contained rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets, the artillery-of-choice of Hezbollah. The Iran-backed Lebanese militia which has periodically acted as a Syrian proxy has formed Palestinian cells in Gaza, which have been behind the mortar attacks on Israeli settlements in that territory. If the rockets intercepted by the Israelis were indeed sent by Hezbollah - which may provoke a sharp Israeli response directed at Syrian targets in Lebanon - that may simply...