Orlando-Based Egyptian Travel Agent, Now Held In Jail, Seen As Key Player In Terrorist Movements.

Justice Department took the action -- Attorney General Ashcroft!

81 posted on 09/19/2001 1:10:35 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Justice Dept. That's wonderful. I thought it might have to go through Congress - but this is WAR!!!!!!

82 posted on 09/19/2001 1:18:03 PM PDT by Gracey

To: MindBender26

The treatment on non-uniformed soldiers may not apply in the absence of a Declaration of War.

83 posted on 09/19/2001 1:21:56 PM PDT by monocle

84 posted on 09/19/2001 1:27:21 PM PDT by timestax

Fighting the war on (some) drugs. Killing Americans they don't like....that sort of thing.

You forgot their vital service keeping donut stores terrorist free.

85 posted on 09/19/2001 1:27:30 PM PDT by ninonitti

To: TrueBeliever9

Janet Reno's homeland...she looked the other way.

86 posted on 09/19/2001 1:55:45 PM PDT by Goldi-Lox

The treatment on non-uniformed soldiers may not apply in the absence of a Declaration of War.

That's an issue for the USSC to resolve. Let's see, they have an opening in the court calender in early 2007.....

87 posted on 09/19/2001 2:09:23 PM PDT by MindBender26

To: MindBender26

It looks like Ahmed got around...

USA TODAY
November 22, 1999, Monday, FINAL EDITION
NEWS; Pg. 6A

Crash could damage Egypt's tourism industry
Marco R. della Cava

CAIRO, Egypt -- Some fear that another casualty from the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 could be this country's tourism industry, which is second only to oil as the nation's prime source of foreign revenue.

Each year, about 4 million tourists contribute an estimated $ 4 billion to the Egyptian economy, mostly during the peak season,
which runs from November through April. Egypt only recently rebounded from the tragedy of Nov. 17, 1997, when six terrorists massacred 58 tourists in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, an hour flight south of Cairo.

One of the more cynical conspiracy theories floating about suggests that Israel engineered the crash to divert tourists from Egypt to its millennial celebrations.

"This is so people will choose Jerusalem over Cairo," student Mohammed el-Askari says. "It's a war against EgyptAir."

If so, it's not working, judging from interviews with U.S. tourists visiting Cairo's famed museum of antiquities, home of the King Tut treasures.

"I had no hesitation in coming," says travel agent Linda Boerner of Tampa, who flew here on EgyptAir. "I think it's likely the
pilot, not mechanical."

Christine Vaughn of Fort Wayne, Ind., who doesn't have a theory about the crash, took her flight on EgyptAir because it operates non-stop service from New York.

"I've wanted to come here since I was a little girl," she says. "No way was I going to postpone."

Hers is a popular sentiment. "There are no rooms available all over Egypt," says Ahmed Badawi, a manager at the Egyptrav office in Cairo. "We don't think the crash will have any affect on us."

Check your Freepmail

88 posted on 09/22/2001 2:53:53 PM PDT by Nita Nupress

To: MindBender26

Do they still arrange cells so that each member only knows the identity of one other member?

89 posted on 09/22/2001 8:11:16 PM PDT by bootless

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