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Before Omar left Kandahar, he opened the marble vault in the city's most venerated shrine and held up the Respectable Cloak of the Prophet Muhammad, seen publicly only two times previously in more than a millennium. The sight inspired Taliban foot soldiers for a final assault against Kabul in 1996. By then even the U.S. was quietly encouraging Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to back a movement they hoped might eliminate the heroin trade, open access for a gas pipeline and confine Shi'ite Iran...
...stabbed a roommate. While in Michigan, he had obtained a license to transport hazardous materials. Agents believe he knew one of the hijackers and may have funneled money to fellow Boston cabby Raed Hijazi, a bin Laden associate on trial in Jordan for his role in the foiled Millennium attacks. The FBI also has questions for Mouldi Sayeh, a Boston hotel owner. Witnesses allege he may be a broker for bin Laden siblings there. A man arrested at New York City's JFK airport Sept. 13 claims to live in a Boston building where a bin Laden brother once resided...
...Nabil Al-Marabh, a former Boston cabdriver arrested last week, was a friend of one of the hijackers, U.S. officials say. He also reportedly has ties to a Palestinian convicted in Jordan of planning to bomb millennium celebrations--allegedly an al-Qaeda-backed plot...
...changed; Jackson’s single white glove and moonwalk are relevant no more, long since replaced by new fads and fancies. Staying power need not be an impossible feat, however. Madonna and Sting, both rockers of the 1980s, have stayed fresh and hip well into the new millennium. But they never had to contend with life as a child performer, with racism, with scandal, or with what is perhaps the most insurmountable obstacle of all: a little album known as Thriller...
...work in new and innovative ways? He?s got his work cut out; the massive intelligence failure that allowed the tragedy of 9/11 to take place was born of interagency rivalries and fiefdoms that won?t easily be brought down. There have been real successes at stopping terror; the millennium celebration was spared explosions by dint of the work of the FBI and CIA and similar agencies in Jordan and other countries. But still, reshaping the bureaucracy to be as nimble as the enemy won?t be easy. And as conservatives love to point out, throwing money at the problem...