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...battery with a knife. (He stabbed his roommate in the knee after an argument.) The Boston police had been trying to arrest him since March for violating probation on the assault charge. Since Sept. 11, 2000, he has held a commercial driver's license that certifies him to transport hazardous materials--more than 10,000 lbs. of explosives, for example. In recent weeks, according to Michigan records, he applied for two duplicate copies of this license; one application was made six days after the attacks...
...family soon had a decision to make. They heard on various radio reports that “Americans were coming!” Edgar’s mother, originally from the US, discovered that an US jet carrier boat would be arriving the next day to transport all American citizens to the nearby Guinea. With RUF leaders declaring that no one would be allowed to leave the country because the entire state was on lock down, the Edgar family faced a perilous decision. “I really didn’t want to go”, Edgar recalls...
...rules that many experts have been demanding for more than a decade: banning curbside check-in or parking, forbidding family and friends to accompany passengers to the gate, having security personnel check all planes before passengers board, conducting random searches of flight crews and equipment, and prohibiting the transport of cargo or mail on passenger jets...
...about preboard screening," says Tom Shehan, chief of police at Dallas/Fort Worth airport. "Either privatize it, make it strictly government-run or under airport control. Just not the airlines." In the past, it was assumed that neither the government nor industry wanted to make this change. But the Air Transport Association has met with the FAA and Department of Transportation to argue that federalizing airport security may be the only answer. "This was an attack on national security, and that inherently is a government function," says Mike Wascom, spokesman for the A.T.A. The public agrees, according to the new TIME/CNN...
...capabilities that have already been proved in battle in Kosovo. And if the targets can be identified, then long-range strikes to disrupt terrorist activities may be warranted. But the resistance of a fanatic foe may be overcome only by boots on the ground. We will need enhanced air-transport capabilities and a reorganized and re-equipped ground force...