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Sami al-Arian is a Muslim paradox. He is, he says, an "enlightened Islamist," a computer-engineering professor who leads interfaith community projects in Florida, puts women in leadership positions at his Tampa mosque, praises America and actively campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000. "Most hard-line Muslim fundamentalists would shy away from me," he admits. Yet to many Americans he fits the profile of a militant Muslim. The Palestinian activist who now resides permanently in the U.S. has given incendiary speeches that trumpeted "Death to Israel!" His mosque is named for Sheik Izz al-Din al-Qassam...
...father became an abusive husband. Charles and his mother moved around the country, and during the Gulf War she changed their name to Bishop to rid them of his father's Arabic surname, Bishara. But by the time Charles entered high school last year in Tarpon Springs, Fla., near Tampa, he seemed a bright, contented teen, far removed from the turmoil he had been born into...
...apparently wasn't. Bishop flew the single-engine Cessna into a Tampa office building, killing only himself and leaving behind a suicide note declaring support for Osama bin Laden. Bishop had veered menacingly over Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base--from which the Afghan war is being directed--prompting new fears about security at a time when more small, lightly regulated aircraft are filling the skies. Bishop's close friend Emerson Favreau told TIME that days before the crash Bishop asked him how to locate the command center inside MacDill. Investigators think he originally targeted the base...
...Charles knew nothing of her complicated past or that of his father Charles Bishara, whom officials could not locate but who is believed to be living in Massachusetts. Bishara's father Robert Bishara of Everett, Mass., says he hasn't seen his son in six years, and that the Tampa tragedy was the first news he had heard of his grandson since the 1980s. "I lost my grandson the same day I found him again," he says. The complete suicide note, which was to be made public this week after the boy's funeral, could shed more light...
Nikki Sixx has mellowed out; long live NICK CARTER. The youngest of the Backstreet Boys at 21, Carter was arrested last week at the fittingly named Pop City nightclub in Tampa, Fla. But mothers of impressionable young girls everywhere needn't worry--his behavior was more petulant than felonious. The police were called twice to the club to restore peace after fights broke out. During their second visit, Carter got into an argument with a woman, according to an affidavit. Officers allegedly told him more than 10 times to leave the club and, finally, to depart by the count...