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...Since Ashcroft issued his November 9th memo asking local police to help U.S. attorneys and the FBI question these 5,000 men, police chiefs have had to decide whether they want to help. The request puts them in a difficult position. Many are responsible for communities with sizable Middle Eastern populations. The police?s relationship with that community makes a big difference. Local cops have to interact with the community daily - they depend on them for tips, information and cooperation...
...thousands of dollars in cash in their possession. They had taken a train from St. Louis and were traveling on phony Indian passports. Last week the FBI told the New York Times that when the two were found, they had shaved off most of their body hair. An inspirational memo in some of the hijackers' belongings instructed them to "shave excess hair from the body"; the reasons are unknown...
...Memo to Coltrane: I have seen Harry Potter, and there's no reason for you to hire bodyguards. When the film opens on Nov. 16, lovers of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series who have worried about what Hollywood had in store for the sacred text will be relieved to see that Coltrane's Hagrid bears an impressive resemblance to the gentle giant Rowling described in the first volume: He's a lovable lug--funny and slightly sad--with "long tangles of bushy black hair and...hands the size of trash can lids." And just as he does...
Five days after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, CIA Director George Tenet gathered his senior spies in a conference room at the agency?s Langley, Va., headquarters and passed out copies of a top-secret memo he?d just drafted. "We?re at war," the memo announced. The CIA?s mission now was "to neutralize and destroy al Qaeda and its partners" around the world. "All the rules have changed...
...State Department sent a stinging memo to the White House last week on the plan to keep domestic and foreign counterterrorism efforts divided and complained that it was "startling" that Secretary of State Colin Powell doesn't get a seat on Ridge's Homeland Security council. "Doing it piecemeal like this sets us back 10 years," says a State Department official...