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...feel the impact most of all. They are both located in New York, but that's not the reason why. They both specialize in a kind of entertainment, superhero books, that suddenly seems off-key. Who can now abide the fantasy of an evil madman's nefarious plot to kill thousands of people being foiled by a muscle-bound troglodyte? This question compelled Warner Brothers to indefinitely postpone the release of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Collateral Damage." Superhero publishers don't really have that option since nearly all of their product follows this premise. Instead they are going forward...
...recently found guilty in the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. Al-Hallak's name also reportedly showed up on a list at a Brooklyn refugee center headed by several men convicted in the 1993 Trade Center bombing. Al-Hallak, who has not been charged in either World Trade plot, has denied connection to bin Laden and claims to have counseled el-Hage only on religious matters. Najam Khan, president of the group that runs the Arlington mosque, says it fired al-Hallak last year for neglecting his flock--before the bin Laden connections were known. "I don't think...
...York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers ended with the players watching President Bush's address to Congress, shaking hands and skating off the ice in midgame. Satirical websites theonion.com and modernhumorist.com interrupted publication. A five-hour Law & Order mini-series on NBC was scuttled because it involved an anthrax-attack plot in New York City. Microsoft indefinitely put off the next version of its popular Flight Simulator because it includes the Twin Towers in its simulacrum of New York City. Terror-themed movies were shelved by studios and pulled from cable. A Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins...
...entire plot may have cost well over $200,000. Investigators want to know how the money landed in the hijackers' accounts. The feds have detained Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi, a Saudi medical resident at the University of Texas in San Antonio. Two hijackers may have used his credit cards. Was he an accomplice or a victim? The FBI questioned Ahmed Badawi as a witness and released him. Badawi sells plane tickets, wires money and cashes checks at his Orlando office. He may have sold tickets to several hijackers. Investigators are also questioning friends of the hijackers in San Diego...
...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...