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...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...
...opponents of the Administration are indignant that the Justice Department has actually gone so far as to arrest and jail foreign visitors to our country whose visas have expired or who have broken other laws. Am I the only person who does not understand this? JOHN J. THORNTON Tampa...
Every morning military brass in a nondescript office called the intelligence fusion cell at General Tommy Franks' U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Florida, look up at wall charts for any changes on the lists. These are what the war in Afghanistan is all about: the scorecard of America's most wanted, the bad guys responsible for the global terror jihad, the men whom the Bush Administration has vowed to bring to justice?dead or alive. One list runs down roughly 40 senior Taliban leaders, coded by color as someone defects or is killed or negotiates to surrender. The other...