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...worried that Iraqi agents will try to coerce students and other Iraqi nationals in the US into participating in terrorist plots by threatening to torture and kill their relatives back home. "They've raised family extortion to new level," says one veteran counter-terror hand. That concern is behind the FBI's 50,000 interviews in immigrant communities - agents hope reluctant recruits will blow the whistle on Saddam's schemes...
...prevent Iraqi agents from making contact with al-Qaeda fanatics willing and able to carry out terror schemes inside the U.S., the FBI is expected to dust off a few tricks developed during the Cold War to "bumper-lock" - confuse and immobilize - the KGB. A favorite: waves of double-agents, called "cold walk-ins," approach enemy agents and "volunteer" for nasty missions. If the ploy works, the FBI has achieved a penetration. Sooner or later the walk-ins are revealed as plants. IF they're burned a few times, so the theory goes, the Iraqis will suspect and reject even...
Arab leaders realize that their worst nightmare is about to happen. So after years of tolerating Saddam Hussein's aggression and terror, some of them are turning against him. With the Bush administration signaling its intention to fight a new Middle Eastern war, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal is revealing for the first time details of a Saudi proposal that could isolate Saddam, encourage his overthrow and thereby avert...
MENGISTU HAILE MARIAM Ethiopia He eliminated the opposition in a campaign known as the Red Terror, and he now lives in relative serenity in Harare, Zimbabwe
...terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice." George W. Bush, U.S. President, during his State of the Union address, on the country's war on terror...