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...Massino's uncle owned a shop in Maspeth, where the young man made sandwiches for catering trucks, frequently driving one himself and selling coffee and cakes to workers in a Long Island City truck yard. The wiseguy soon became a wide guy. "He'd eat half the sweets on his truck," says ex-FBI agent Colgan. Government witnesses at his '87 trial said Massino fenced merchandise, from Kodak cameras to electric appliances, that workers stole from the platforms and loaded onto his truck. By the '70s, he had allegedly expanded his operation into a truck-hijacking racket. With connections...
...under the 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...
...planes every day. And if we understand one thing about terrorists, it's that they stick to what they know. Since 2000, bombs have gone off (or been defused) on railways in India, Russia, France, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Israel and Germany. Iyman Faris, a truck driver from Ohio who pleaded guilty last May to providing material support to al-Qaeda, told investigators that the organization wanted to derail a train near Washington. Other intelligence sources reported that al-Qaeda operatives had cased the Washington rail corridor and that some had discussed exploding a train near storage...
...security experts noted an inventive variation in the Madrid bombings. Rather than employing a large truck bomb, against which some defensive techniques work, the attackers used small charges in backpacks. Palestinian terrorists using satchels on Israeli buses have killed dozens of passengers. But in Madrid, the bombers caused some 200 deaths and more than 1,500 other casualties with just 10 bags. The terrorists achieved the effect of a large-scale attack with a hand-carried weapon that easily avoids detection...
...heavy. A bunch of mobsters arrested in the '80s get paroled ("The Class of '04," the media dub them), including Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi), who went to jail for a heist Tony Soprano was supposed to be on. Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief, and in a way it is, but Tony B., clinging to his modest dream, is also a poignant figure, Tony Soprano's sad-sack but decent alter...