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...Justice were clearly pleased last week as they announced the big news. Iyman Faris, 34, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Kashmir, had pleaded guilty at the beginning of May to providing material support to al-Qaeda. Not only had he scoped out the Brooklyn Bridge as part of a plot to destroy the New York City landmark, but he had also tried to obtain equipment to help derail a train near the nation's capital. The feds had done more than nab a truck driver from Columbus, Ohio, who was leading what Ashcroft called "a secret double life...
...sentenced on Aug. 1, contributed to the recent decision to raise the terrorism alert to orange. They were deemed especially credible, according to law-enforcement officials, because they were supported by previous multiple tips. As far back as last fall, the U.S. was hearing about a serious plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge that involved a Midwesterner. An intelligence report from early 2002 said al-Qaeda wanted to derail a train in the industrial corridor of northeast Washington, hoping to smash the cars into tanks of hazardous chemicals stored near the tracks...
...struggle between good and evil is the thundering bass line of the plot, but above it we get the familiar delights of another Quidditch season and the schoolboy angst of the upcoming Ordinary Wizarding Levels (the magical equivalent of the SAT) and the arrival of a female Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. What's more, along with death, sex made its first appearance in Goblet of Fire (those veelas! that Cho Chang!), and Harry--well, let's just say again that he's not a kid any more. And as always, there are glorious glimpses of the wider wizarding...
...Patrice Alègre confessed to the 1992 murder of a transvestite, and claimed he'd done it on the orders of former mayor Dominique Baudis, now head of the agency that oversees TV and radio programming. Baudis hotly denied the charges, and last week, in a pulp-novel plot twist, Alègre recanted. The French media , which spent the past six weeks hounding Baudis, was left issuing pious but guilty-sounding reminders about the presumption of innocence and the risks of believing psychopaths. Baudis also faced down another accuser, a former prostitute who alleges having seen...
FILED. A $100 MILLION LAWSUIT, by J.K. ROWLING, 37, author, and by SCHOLASTIC, U.S. publisher; against the New York Daily News, after the tabloid published details about the plot of the new, fifth Harry Potter book; in New York City. The suit claims that the newspaper damaged Rowling's intellectual-property rights and harmed Scholastic's $3 million global marketing campaign. Booksellers worldwide had to sign an agreement with the publisher, forbidding them from selling any copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix until 12:01 a.m. Greenwich mean time on June...