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...followers to "behave calmly and peacefully" should he be assassinated. "This is my last will and testament," said Jumblatt, who rarely leaves his heavily guarded home south of Beirut. Some opposition activists are taking extra security measures but many of them feel dangerously exposed. "I'm trying," says Ziad Majed of the opposition Democratic Left movement, "but if they want to get you, they...
...Damascus to disengage from its neighbor at the end of April. Why was Kassir targeted? He was the most outspoken critic of Syria's stranglehold over Lebanon. "It's a message to say that despite the international pressure, these people are still here and have a violent agenda," says Ziad Majed, deputy president of the opposition Democratic Left. Damascus denied involvement in Kassir's death, but public pressure is mounting on pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud. This week, tens of thousands of protesters plan to converge on the presidential palace to demand that the increasingly isolated Lahoud resign. Kassir would...
...Sept. 8, 2001, that was then rolled back to July 9. INS personnel who dealt with the Atta group then could not identify one of the men with him. But the ?Terrorist Travel? staff monograph released yesterday said that, based on other evidence, the commission believes that fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah ?may have been? with Atta...
...waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed him to search for a wife on the Internet. Another hijacker, Ziad Samir Jarrah, left the U.S. as many as five times to visit his girlfriend in Germany in the year before 9/11. He even sent her a last love letter, the only hijacker known to have written a farewell...
...commission. Mohammed said Moussaoui was supposed to participate in a second wave of attacks, on the West Coast, after Sept. 11, while Binalshibh believed that Moussaoui was to be part of the primary plot. There are also indications that Moussaoui was viewed as a possible replacement for Ziad Jarrah, the eventual pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, whom al-Qaeda officials feared might drop out. The operation ultimately cost only...