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...least a few of the detainees belong to al-Qaeda. And many of those who do not belong have broken the law in troubling ways. The largest group is a ring of 22 Arab men who submitted false IDs and background information and paid bribes to obtain permits to transport hazardous materials. Law enforcement's fear: that they were part of an al-Qaeda plot to turn a chlorine or liquid-gas truck into a bomb on wheels capable of killing tens of thousands. The men turned out not to be terrorist linked. But with Osama bin Laden vowing...
Despite predictions by some that Ginger would revolutionize personal transport, others are skeptical of such pronouncements...
...total arrested, the majority are men in their 20s and 30s. They have been picked up because they were born in an Islamic nation or were doing suspicious things, such as applying for licenses to transport hazardous materials. Some have been detained after coming forward to offer information. Others appear to have a direct connection with the hijackers. One detainee in this category is Osama Awadallah, a Jordanian student attending school in San Diego, who is not considered to have been involved in the attacks but has been jailed since mid-September and is charged with lying to a grand...
...only did the cell actively recruit members to al-Qaeda, arrange their transport to Afghanistan training camps and provide illicit funding to the terrorist outfit, Garzón claims. But unlike its counterparts in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Milan and Sarajevo, the Madrid cell also "may have been directly involved in the preparation and implementation" of the U.S. attacks...
...terrorists were willing to kill thousands of innocent people in suicidal attacks against buildings symbolizing America's economic and military power . . . they would have little trouble acquiring antitank weapons that could blow up the heavy canisters in which radioactive spent fuel from nuclear reactors is transported through populated areas," wrote George Bunn and Fritz Steinhausler at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the October issue of Arms Control Today. "Despite the danger, no multilateral treaty requires that nuclear material and facilities be protected from such attacks." Jürgen Sattari, spokesman for a Bremen-based environmental...