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...when the FBI issued a stark bulletin containing a new vocabulary of alarm warning of "spectacular" terrorist attacks to come. Over the weekend, London's Sunday Times reported three North Africans had been arrested after British intelligence foiled their alleged plot to release gas, possibly cyanide, in the London Underground. Also over the weekend, a London journalist for the Qatar satellite channel al-Jazeera said he had received a six-page unsigned statement that appeared to come from al-Qaeda, threatening more attacks against Washington and New York City...
...year did nothing to dispel these fears. Rabah Kadre and two other North African Muslims were arrested under the Terrorism Act, but their specific offense remained a mystery. British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott dismissed reports that they had been plotting a cyanide-gas attack in the London Underground. But newspapers said they had received the information from security sources, suggesting that different arms of the government were not in sync. The British weren't alone in fearing chemical weapons. The U.S. embassy in Rome was awaiting the arrival of "escape hoods" - protective gear worn over the head and shoulders...
Once built, the most difficult task was burying it under the sod of Harvard Stadium and concealing it from the vigilant grounds crew. Over the course of eight nighttime visits, complete with lookouts and camouflage, the Dekes were able to run wires underground through a gap in the cement track that once rounded the field, and then into the bowels of the concrete horseshoe where the power supply was located. Given their poor luck with security, the MIT students waited until the week of the game to install the fire extinguisher-size device into the ground and hoped...
...when Greenough received an unsigned letter dated May 26 from someone who identified himself only as a member of the Class of 1921. The anonymous student knew all the details of Cyril Wilcox’s suicide and informed the Acting Dean how Cyril first got involved with the underground gay group. “While in his Freshman year he met in college some boys, mostly members of his own class, who committed upon him and induced him to commit on them ‘Unnatural Acts’ which habit so grew on him that realizing...
...into the Atlantic as authorities used barriers to keep a 37-km-long oil slick from the ecologically sensitive coast. BRITAIN Cyanide Plot Foiled Police charged three North African Muslims with terrorist offences. The London Times reported that they were plotting to release cyanide gas in the London Underground. The plot was foiled by intelligence agents who infiltrated a terrorist group said to have links to the al-Qaeda network. The paper said MI5 had been tracking the group for six months. MIDDLE EAST Sabbath Attack Twelve Israelis died as gunmen from the Islamic Jihad ambushed a group of Jews...