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Even from a distance, Binalshibh played a vital role on Sept. 11, according to U.S. investigators. From his base in Germany, he handled logistics and financial arrangements for the hijack team, funneling cash to them and also, on one occasion, to Zacarias Moussaoui, who was detained in Minnesota before the attacks and has since been charged with six counts of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. Binalshibh also is thought to have worked closely with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 38, a Pakistani born in Kuwait with a long history of links to terrorist groups, who investigators believe was also involved...
...Mauritanian, North African and Southeast Asian. By the late 1990s, local groups were increasingly linking up under al-Qaeda's mantle in international actions often aimed at the U.S. or its friends. Al-Qaeda's camps in Afghanistan--where as many as 10,000 recruits may have trained--were vital to the mission. The camps were useful not only for plotting attacks safe from the prying eyes of police forces but, just as important, they were also vital centers where men from widely different backgrounds who had once had very different causes learned to trust and work with one another...
...edited by senior P.L.A. officers and considered China's new doctrinal manual. It authorizes the Chinese military to fire its missiles first, not only if "separatists" split the country but also if "foreign powers use military means to interfere in China's domestic affairs"?or even when "our vital strategic targets, such as nuclear power stations, hydroelectric dams or major cities are seriously threatened by an enemy's high-tech weapons...
...Hong Kong movies in Toronto displayed what is left of a once-vital film form. Fruit Chan's Public Toilet wanderlusts from India to New York City with its young, blond, Chinese hero, who is named Public Toilet because that is where his mother gave birth to him. With the success of Made in Hong Kong, Little Cheung and Durian, Durian (which Toronto showed two years ago in Italian subtitles?how's that for arty?), Chan has become Hong Kong's emissary to film festivals; he seemingly cannot take a Polaroid snapshot without getting an international prize...
...century. The central mission of CSS has been to expand course offerings in national security within the existing concentrations. In discussions with professors from varied disciplines we learned that there is both interest and desire to create more opportunities for such scholarship. Courses might address such diverse but vital topics as chemical and biological terrorism, the literature of terrorism or the challenges terrorism poses to democracies...