Janitor tells 9/11 panel of brush with WTC thug
By JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - A hero janitor who helped victims escape from the World Trade Center's north tower before it collapsed told the 9/11 panel that he came across one of the hijackers in the building a few months before the attack....
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Purported Al-Qaeda Letter Cites Tough Struggle in Iraq, AP Says
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- A letter purportedly written by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist linked to al-Qaeda, says his struggle in Iraq is getting harder because the U.S.-led coalition is tightening its grip, the Associated Press said.
``The space of movement is starting to get smaller,'' AP cited the letter as saying. ``The grip is starting to be tightened on the holy warriors' necks and, with the spread of soldiers and police, the future is becoming frightening.''
The nine-page unsigned statement, posted yesterday on Islamic Web sites, is entitled ``The Text of al-Zarqawi's message to Osama bin Laden about holy war in Iraq'' and hasn't been authenticated, AP said. Fighters in Iraq will intensify their attacks against police and soldiers who are the ``eye, ear and hand'' of the U.S.-led coalition, it cited the letter as saying.
U.S. military officials have said Zarqawi, a Jordanian, is orchestrating attacks from inside Iraq. The military command said he may be involved in the killing last month of Izzedine Salim, the leader of Iraq's interim Governing Council. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said he probably killed Nick Berg, a 26-year- old American who was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq last month.