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...particularly awkward time for President Bush, raising doubts about the success of phase one of Bush's antiterrorism war just when he's pushing to launch phase two against Saddam Hussein. The news was rushed to him not long after experts at the CIA's bin Laden unit at Langley reviewed the audiocast on al-Jazeera, the network regularly used by al-Qaeda to deliver its messages. At around 8 p.m. that day, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice called Bush with the bad news while he was in the shower. Experts were almost certain they were hearing the voice...
...taken over control of the terrorist search-and-destroy mission. While some 1,100 analysts and covert operatives staff the terrorism hunt, operating out of Virginia, the special bin Laden station has 50 officers who focus solely on the terrorist leader. (Bin Laden unit is a cover; the office is actually named after the child of the CIA officer who first organized it, but that name remains secret to protect the child from retaliation.) They even have a "red cell" made up of a dozen analysts who try to think like bin Laden and dream up ways he might attack...
...corrupt, Jack Grubman says; he's just a liar and a braggart. A former star analyst of telecom companies for the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, Grubman says that when he upgraded his investment opinion of AT&T in November 1999--after years of dissing the stock--it had nothing to do with winning investment-banking fees for Salomon, helping his boss Sanford Weill survive a power struggle or getting the Grubman twins into an exclusive nursery school. A string of emails in which he raised all these issues--and which were obtained by reporters last week--are "baseless...
...source close to the Saudi government tells TIME that al-Bayoumi made repeated calls to the Saudi Embassy in 2001 - hooking up with the Embassy's Islamic Affairs unit to ask for religious books and materials. The FBI found out about this and asked permission to interview two Saudi diplomats at the Embassy - Ambassador, Prince Bandar gave permission, and the interviews occurred in October...
...It’s probably the only thing at Harvard Carl still hasn’t done.” Yale’s kicker, John Troost, is only 4-of-7 this season with a long of 35 yards. However, Yale’s special teams return unit is tops in the Ivies, averaging a league-high 23.7 yards a kickoff (Harvard is second with a 20.6 average) while holding opponents to a league-low 14.3 yards a return. Yale’s punter Chad Henley, however, is worst in the league with a 31.2-yard average...