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That isn't some wild-eyed fantasy but what some experts fear is a realistic scenario. Many of the terrorists' tactics depicted here are taken from a Department of Energy (DOE) training video for guards at nuclear facilities. The control-room plot is based on the concerns of veterans from the nuclear industry. Physicist Kenneth Bergeron, who spent most of 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build...
...returned to the Palestinians and "the Jews should be left to suffer." More often, however, Universal's students feel resentment about being stereotyped, both in the media and on the streets. To senior Ali Fadhli, the Fox TV show 24, which had a plot this season about a Muslim terrorist cell, is "obnoxious," he says. "America has moved on to a new enemy. We're treated now like the Russians were during the Cold War." Being teenagers though, perhaps the worst slight of all is being regarded as outsiders. "The students are aware," says Dalila Benameur, head of the social...
Sept. 11 deepened Neal’s commitment to the military. But other ROTC seniors say their decision to serve was not influenced by the terrorist attacks...
While Huebner drew from examples other than Sept. 11, he says that his decision to examine American and European relations was motivated by the terrorist attacks. Sept. 11, Huebner says, “spearheaded my whole thesis...
...arrest of Palestinian activist and suspected terrorist Jaoudat Abouazza in Harvard Square triggered a “lock-down” on Commencement Day 2002. Police had considered heightening security in anticipation of the “American Jihad” speech by Zayed M. Yasin ’02 and a World Bank protest in Cambridge scheduled for the next day. But it was the arrest of Abouazza that led to the metal detectors, bomb technicians, and National Guard presence at Commencement...