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...Paul Leventhal, the institute's president. Less than 110 kg of active ingredients could yield 10 kilotons of explosive power--a Hiroshima-size weapon. Even if the terrorists didn't get the recipe quite right, a 1-kiloton yield could still devastate a city. And forget the suitcase: a truck will do, or a container ship to float the bomb into an American port...
...People would ask, 'Do you ever get over something like this?'" Howell says. "I told them no. Something will bring it back all the doggone time. It might be an airplane or an ambulance siren or a yellow Ryder truck." Throughout his two-week stay in Manhattan, Howell, 64, kept his composure, while victims' families around him sobbed, fainted, hyperventilated or vomited. He felt it was important to show people that he was still standing, six years later. He confides it took him three years to break through his depression. Going to New York was, he insists, the best...
Each week TIME writers, editors and correspondents chat on AOL about what's happening in the news. This week the talk is about anthrax anxiety, the danger of truck bombs and how small-town America is coping with post-9/11 life...
JOHN CLOUD has been part of the team covering the investigation into 9/11 and has written about Mohamed Atta, the terrorists' European connections and, in this issue, the possibility of a truck-bomb attack. Talk to him about what may be next on AOL, Keyword: Live, on Monday...
...homes and offices?the group's ever-busy Department of Vice and Virtue was damaged in the last two weeks?and has relocated to mosques or occupied the houses of ordinary people in congested neighborhoods. "They know the U.S. won't hit a mosque," says Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a truck driver. Locals claim that Arab allies of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban have lodged themselves in buildings left empty by various NGOs and U.N.-affiliated organizations, which were vacated when the U.S. attacks seemed inevitable...