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...senior federal sources say that the investigation of the hijackers' sojourn in San Diego has concluded that they paid their bills with money transferred via the same channels that funneled money to Mohammed Atta and other hijackers based in Florida: al-Qaeda financial operatives transferred funds to them accounts in the United Arab Emirates. "We had ample opportunity with Al Bayoumi in custody to run out that end of it, and it didn't produce," says a federal law enforcement official. "That's why he was cut loose. We could not find any contact between him and terrorists, any involvement...
...know urbanites. Under CEO Diego Della Valle, Tod's has become a household name with sales of some $319 million. With that sort of pedigree, how can Fay fail? The brand's first dedicated store, designed by the architect Philip Johnson, will open this week on Milan's tony Via Spiga. Sagra de Rosen, retail analyst for J.P. Morgan, describes Fay as "the Italian Burberry," due to its origins in outerwear. The first coats are thought to have been made for fishermen in the U.S. state of Maine in the 1960s by a Mr. Fay. Della Valle bought the company...
...police. But when the riot police finally moved into the church, the migrants didn't fight but filed obediently into buses waiting to ferry them to local police stations. Before the eviction, Kurshid - an 18-year-old Iraqi Kurd who paid smugglers $6,000 for the month-long journey via Istanbul to Sangatte - stood outside the church with a towel wrapped around his head against the cold. "We want to go to Sangatte because from there you can go to England, Australia and Canada," he explained. "We don't want to apply for asylum here because the French...
...Washington's focus has shifted to its looming confrontation with Iraq, Osama bin Laden popped up again this week to confirm that he survived Year 1 of America's war on terror - and to warn that more mayhem awaits the U.S. and its allies. Announcing himself rather meekly, via an audio cassette delivered to an al-Jazeera TV correspondent in Pakistan rather than through one of the promotional videos his global audience has come to expect, bin Laden nonetheless U.S. legislators decrying the failure of the government's efforts to roll up his al-Qaeda network and prompted...
Team members, immediately sharing their excitement with families via cellular phone, sought out their tournament destination. Then the most suprising announcement...