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Qazi Liaqat Zamir, a relative of airline-terror suspect Rashid Rauf, stands next to a brand-new Jeep 4x4 outside a 6-bedroom house in Haveli Beghal village. The house, a technicolor confection of terraced concrete, is surrounded by several acres of empty land, and two Toyota Corollas are parked outside. Completing the picture of prosperity, Zamir pets a thoroughbred greyhound standing by his feet. Zamir smiles looking out over his property, and with a sweeping gesture of his hand says, "All this is because of England." England, of course, is where his relative Rauf, now in custody in Pakistan...
...villages remain strong, and every year Mirpur is inundated by a reverse flow of visiting family members. The large influx of second- and third-generation Pakistani immigrants coming from Britain every summer to visit relatives would certainly provide a cover story for any radical elements looking to huddle with terror chiefs in Pakistan...
...speaks of the family of the detained terror-suspect Rashid Rauf as "very likable, straight, genuine people." The last time he saw Rauf was at the funeral of his uncle, stabbed to death in what was said to be a family dispute - an incident that reportedly prompted Rauf to flee Britain. "I knew him as a very good kid, from a good family. I never heard anything bad about him. When I heard the news I was shocked." He doesn't believe that the Rauf family had anything to do with the bomb plot...
...week after the aborted terror plot to smuggle liquid explosives aboard planes flying from London to the U.S., the air travel system is still trying to adapt. Some of the most draconian restrictions have been eased, but there's still a lot of confusion over what the rules are. With the end-of-summer travel peak approaching, TIME.com sorts through the latest rules on what you can and can't bring onboard your flight...
...head of the company whose screeners worked at two of the three airports targeted on Sept. 11 - Newark and Washington's Dulles - Argenbright quickly became a scapegoat in the aftermath of the terror attacks. On Oct. 12, 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly announced that parent company "Argenbright Holdings continues to violate laws that protect the safety of Americans who travel by commercial airlines." Ashcroft based his comments on a 1999 guilty plea and agreement Argenbright had made with the federal government when a screener at a Pennsylvania airport was busted for drug possession, which led to evidence that...