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...Milan headquarters of the carabinieri, as well as the Milan airport and train station. "It's a leak from inside that little by little can grow," says Milan antiterror prosecutor Elio Ramondini. On Dunstable Road, the heart of the vibrant Pakistani community in Luton, an industrial town 48 km north of London, the perplexities of finding a terrorist needle in the haystack of a long-settled, law-abiding group of immigrants are manifest. Nearby are four houses the police searched as part of their raids. Muslim elders are disgusted by terror. "Our younger generation is going astray," says Anwar Khan...
That may account for the lackadaisical response Spanish security services gave to warnings from France and Morocco to keep an eye on Zougam. Last Friday a Spanish judge charged Zougam and two fellow Moroccans with carrying out the train bombings. All three proclaimed their innocence. But Zougam had been under watch by European counterterrorism officials since at least August 2001, after French officials found a number of their suspects crossing paths with him. They asked Spanish law enforcement to search Zougam's Madrid apartment, where he lived with his mother, who had taken him from Tangiers when...
...George Tenet said recently. "Other extremist groups within the movement it influenced have become the next wave of the terrorist threat." That only makes them harder to find and stop. Even in hindsight, there was no electronic chatter, no rumor, nothing from interrogations hinting at an attack before the train bombers struck in Madrid. The amorphous nature of the plotters' network enabled it to operate under the noses of intelligence and police forces...
...Boston and New York City present exactly the kinds of targets al-Qaeda teaches its operatives to choose: the crush of VIPs, chaos, noise and long hours will be a security nightmare. And, as a senior U.S. official points out with a shudder, both conventions will be held above train stations...
...Bush Administration the board has been stripped of most of its aviation expertise and that it will move further in that direction if President Bush's fourth nominee for the five-member board, Deborah Hersman, is approved. Hersman, 33, a Senate aide who has dealt mainly with truck and train issues, will replace current NTSB member John Goglia, 59, who has spent 30 years working on aviation safety and is the only airline mechanic ever to serve on the board...