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...remember one episode where I was obliged to interrogate a British official about his alleged involvement in an espionage ring, and he lied to me. He just lied all the way through. I made a very reasoned submission to my superiors and went on to other things and discovered to my astonishment a few months later, this man had been promoted. So I was terribly worried, and I started to shake the bars. Finally I was taken aside and told to ask no more questions about the matter. And of course years later I realized that he had been...
...court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids on apartments, all described as Muslim fundamentalists, were charged with conspiracy to carry out the bombings and held without bail. Several other suspected members of the ring are still at large while authorities look for more evidence against them, but are not regarded as dangerous...
...fast. The World Trade Center bombers, for all their ineptitude -- one expert on terrorism likens them to the Three Stooges -- did set off a blast that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Their would-be imitators failed mostly because a confidential informant inside the ring helped the FBI keep his comrades under close surveillance. FBI men dubbed him "the Colonel"; he was later identified as Emad Salem, 43, a former Egyptian military officer...
Salem was part of the inner circle around Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind, fiery Egyptian cleric who has been spiritual mentor both to the accused World Trade Center bombers and to members of the new ring. In fact Salem served for a time as Abdel Rahman's bodyguard. He is said to have turned informant partly for money (the FBI reportedly has recommended that he be given a $250,000 bonus for his help), but largely because he thought terrorist killings were betraying, not furthering, the cause of Islam and were likely to prompt a worldwide backlash against Muslims...
...however, has yet alleged that Abdel Rahman gave either group any actual directions. The FBI did get a court order allowing it to record some conversations between Abdel Rahman and members of the ring broken up last week. Some agents then wanted to arrest the sheik, and prepared an affidavit in support. The debate on whether to order the arrest went all the way to Attorney General Janet Reno. The consensus of superiors who reviewed the document and the evidence it contained, however, was that the agency just did not have enough to link Abdel Rahman to the plot...