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...Sept. 15, 2001, President Bush summoned his top national-security advisers to Camp David to plot America's retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. As the group began to hammer out a strategy for war against the Taliban, Paul Wolfowitz, the 57-year-old Deputy Defense Secretary, took a different tack. An Afghan war in his view had the makings of a quagmire. The larger threat to American security was sitting not in a cave in Afghanistan but in a Baghdad bunker. And so, just four days after Sept. 11, Wolfowitz urged Bush...
...U.S.S. Cole, and of links with James Ujaama, an American awaiting trial for allegedly attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. Ujaama reportedly ran a website in London for Abu Hamza. The Yemenis also want to question Abu Hamza about his alleged involvement in a plot in Yemen, where his son and stepson were both arrested on terrorist charges. And Abu Hamza has also annoyed Britain's Charity Commission by refusing to stop preaching, despite a ban they placed on him last spring. Last week, however, the Commission said he had met a new deadline for making...
...trustees, using the mosque's status as a charity, moved to have Abu Hamza stopped from preaching because of his fundamentalist views. Several prominent terrorist suspects are known to have visited or stayed at the mosque, including Djamel Beghal, who was linked to an al-Qaeda plot to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris, shoe bomber Richard Reid and suspected 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui. In April of last year, the Charity Commission imposed a preaching ban on Abu Hamza, and more recently threatened to remove him, because many of his statements "were of such an extreme and political nature...
...Oscars. Here was the definitive English couple, manacled to each other for life: Wallace, a bachelor with a love for cheese and a weakness for inventing things that blow up, and Gromit, his silent pet, indentured servant and reluctant savior. Next year they'll star in The Great Vegetable Plot, Park's first feature film since the delicious Chicken Run in 2000. But now they can be seen, in byte-size form, on the Internet (at www.atomfilms.com) 10 savory japes with the general title Cracking Contraptions...
...arrested in November, is alleged to have connections with Abu Doha, an Algerian now in high-security Belmarsh prison suspected of being an al-Qaeda operative. Doha, who is apparently connected with alleged terrorist cells around Europe, is also awaiting extradition to the U.S. as a suspect in the plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 31, 1999. Meanwhile, raids last month in Edinburgh and London netted eight further Algerian terrorist suspects, while two Algerians arrested 16 months ago in Leicester - the first suspects to be charged in Britain with direct links to al-Qaeda - were...