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...institutions. "By the time money gets here, it could be anyone's," says Alan Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who specialized in financial fraud. And the money can be used for anything. In testimony on the embassy bombings, a bin Laden associate said he received a $250,000 wire transfer from the Shamal bank to his bank in Texas and used the money to buy an airplane for bin Laden...
Even in cooperative countries, bin Laden can use national borders to stay one step ahead of investigators. "It only takes five minutes to deposit 1 million French francs in a Dutch account and another five minutes to transfer that to an account in Britain," warned a French parliamentary report on terrorist funding. But "for the judge investigating the origins and movement of that money, it will take six months to get a court warrant authorizing inspection of the account in the Netherlands, a year to get one in Britain, six months more for clearance in Switzerland--all to discover that...
Instead, Giuliani should be putting his efforts into making sure the transfer of power is done effortlessly and smoothly, especially at a time like this. He should be working immediately with the mayoral candidates to bring them up to speed and to show them the mechanisms and workings of the mayor’s office. Giuliani should introduce them to members of his administration that he feels should stay on in order to finish the new projects they began as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks. In this way, when Giuliani leaves office, which should...
...similarities between the sudden transfer of power in Cuba and the demolition of several blocks in New York are quite striking. In 1959, never before had the threat of collapse to the Evil Empire come so close to our shores; now, in 2001, never before has the threat of collapse to terrorism struck so close to home...
...these experiments, researchers would transfer loose strands of DNA-—the basic molecular unit of heredity—from warm-blooded animals into specimens of E. coli, a commonly-utilized laboratory bacterium, in hopes of producing a new species with heretofore unknown characteristics...