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...credit will be used to encourage a relatively wider set of priorities...
...jetliners over the Pacific. The operation was thwarted, and several of the participants arrested, including Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. At the time, both Western and Asian security agencies did not understand that the Ramzi Yousef cell was part of a wider, regional network; they believed he had gone to the Philippines for this one operation. As a result, no serious attempt was made to unravel the front companies and detect the militants buttressing the al-Qaeda grid in Asia, one already well entrenched...
...media ban is utterly unfair,” Maats wrote in an e-mail one day before the ban was lifted. “It precludes any discussion of the issues in a wider forum and ensures that the same old UC crowd will win purely based on name recognition...
UNMOVIC also has wider latitude than the U.N. Special Commission had when it conducted its searches: the current Security Council resolution, for instance, gives inspectors broad authority to search Saddam's presidential palaces, restoring prerogatives that the U.N. agreed to give up in 1998. In addition, UNMOVIC has the authority to interview Iraqi government scientists without having an official Iraqi minder present and, as a last resort, can fly the scientists and their families out of the country for questioning. It can also order the "freezing" of suspect facilities, which would prohibit any movement to or from a site during...
Wollf entered Harvard intending to become a doctor. He worked for two months at the Medical School and had spent the year before working at the Dental School, where he met Cummings. He said Cummings talked about the need for wider sex education and hinted at the existence of an undergraduate homosexual group...