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...year-old Mohammed Sidique Khan. TIME has learned that Khan, who described himself in the tape as a "soldier" inspired by Osama bin Laden, may have had a much more direct and long-term involvement with al-Qaeda than previously thought?and also a connection to Southeast Asian terrorist groups. A regional security official tells TIME that an Islamic radical currently detained in Malaysia has admitted that he acted as Khan's guide on two occasions in 2001, when the Leeds-born special-education tutor was transiting in Malaysia on a reconnaissance mission for al-Qaeda. The radical says...
...Townsend, according to a 2003 Executive Order issued in the course of establishing the Department of Homeland Security, is "the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of domestic incident management activities of all departments and agencies in the event of a terrorist threat, and during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, major disasters, or other emergencies, within the United States...
...Critics have questioned whether it was appropriate for her to have made that trip as the administration scrambled to respond to Katrina. Perino had previously told TIME that President Bush had wanted Townsend to remain focused on vigilance against possible terrorist attack. "From the beginning it was important that we also stay focused on our national security and so, as her title is both homeland security and counter-terrorism [adviser], this trip, which was already scheduled way in advance, went forward," Perino said. Perino said Townsend had delegated Katrina duties to Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security...
...discomforting and rather absurd suggestion that New Yorkers are themselves somehow guilty for 9/11. But even if the allusion to Dante is unintentional – as one would hope – then McDonell’s treatment of 9/11 is still both mystifying and maddening. The terrorist attacks are portrayed as a sort of reflection of Mike’s personal tragedies. His mother and father, who form a dysfunctional and unloving couple, have cast a shadow over his childhood, and the fall of the Twin Towers comes shortly after his parents’ death in a fiery...
...fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack, New York City hosted the U.S. Tennis Open finals between Roger Federer and Andre Agassi. By the middle of the game Agassi was behind and feeling the pressure, but as he rose to the occasion and began delivering some impressive plays, one observer remarked, “That’s the thing about Agassi: He always does just enough to be competitive against his opponent. That’s why he sometimes even loses to weaker players—he plays to their level, and then doesn’t realize...