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...looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. Petra von Schenck Wiesbaden, Germany Al-Qaeda in America I was disappointed to see that time gave so much coverage to al-Qaeda's latest "threat" to the U.S. [Aug. 16]. It seems as though every time the government hiccups, the media jump in to play on America's paranoia about another terrorist strike...
...wake of the Madrid train bombings. Ideally, Schily would have liked to call a crisis meeting of top officials from the BfV, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). But only the BND is located in Berlin. The BKA is headquartered 571 km away in Wiesbaden, while the BKA's counterterrorism unit is located in bucolic Meckenheim, near Bonn, some 600 km from Berlin. The BfV, which gathers domestic intelligence and keeps tabs on suspected jihadists, is in Cologne. As a result, Schily held his crisis meeting by phone. "Just imagine if we have to react...
While the decline of the two-parent family in Germany may worry traditionalists, it has proved a boon for a growing number of biotech companies specializing in paternity tests. "Since 1998 the number of orders has increased tenfold," boasts Kirsten Thelen, co-founder of Wiesbaden's ID Lab, which prepared 4,000 DNA fingerprints last year. Says Thelen: "The demand has existed for a long time, but now word has got around that there is an affordable way to obtain proof of parenthood...
...believed to have maintained secure Internet communications for the group Sept. 26, 2001 Spanish police detain Mohammed Belaziz, allegedly a would-be suicide bomber for the attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, along with five other Algerians. Further arrests are made in Bosnia Sept. 29, 2001 Police in Wiesbaden, Germany take Talip Tolgay and two other terrorist suspects into custody. Weapons, fake identity and credit cards and an invoice for a return air ticket to Islamabad via London are seized Oct. 1, 2001 Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin (a.k.a. Frances Etim) apprehended in London. Zain-ul-Abidin was linked...
...Kassar picked up some news that threatened to shut down his smuggling operation. Charles McKee's counterterrorist team in Beirut that was investigating the possible rescue of the nine American hostages had got wind of his CIA connection. The team was outraged that the COREA unit in Wiesbaden was doing business with a Syrian who had close terrorist connections and might endanger their planned rescue attempt...