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Investigators may be vexed by the silent, suspicious few--who, sources say, number 10 at most. But many of the other 970 or so detainees have reason to be annoyed too. No evidence links the vast majority of them to terrorists. The evidence against some detainees is provocative but inconclusive, as in the case of several who were arrested after the FBI intercepted celebratory phone calls among them in the hours following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the New York Times. To be sure, many detainees have been charged with immigration violations or other crimes unrelated to terrorism...
...Hamburg used by Atta. In August, after suspicious behavior at another flight school in Minnesota, Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. Today he is incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, refusing to speak to investigators. Daoudi, who was picked up in the British town of Leicester, sits silent in a French jail. "He isn't giving an inch," says a French official. His lawyer denies that Daoudi has ever been involved in plotting terrorist attacks...
...stars. Veteran actor Delroy Lindo lends authority and strength to his role as Multiverse Agent Roedecker, one of two agents assigned bring Yulaw to justice. Roedecker’s partner, Funsch, is played by Jason Statham, whose intense Dirty Harry impersonation contrasts with Lindo’s silent aura of power...
...road flowed toward Kandahar?trucks laden with flour, rice and other food, and a single Russian-made Taliban tank?but for the most part, people were headed the other way. There were a few vehicles carrying tires and timber, and a forlorn wedding party in four cars, the still, silent bride draped in green, bound for Pakistan. And then there were the refugees: cabs, wagons and trucks loaded with whatever possessions could be carried: cooking utensils, water buckets, cots, cradles, blankets, chickens, cattle, goats...
...CHANG HSUEH-LIANG only once in Taipei, at the home of Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff. At that hour-long meeting, Chang remained silent?and he kept silent until the day he died. The "Young Marshal" remains a tragic and elusive figure in modern Chinese history. Even after he was released from house arrest in Taiwan, Chang declined to write his memoirs. He also disappointed his former comrades when he refused to visit northeast China, where they had established a museum in his honor and maintained his former home. Instead, he spent his time studying the Bible. Chang...