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To: JellyJam

Can you check with NOAA and find out how many towns have not checked in yet? I know they maintain weather equipment everywhere.


1,639 posted on 08/13/2004 8:17:35 PM PDT by HipShot (EOM couldn't cut the head off a beer with a chainsaw)
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Veteran al-Qaida operative providing insight into bin Laden's network

Associated Press
Aug. 13, 2004 12:15 PM

LONDON - A newly arrested al-Qaida operative is providing valuable insight into the inner workings of Osama bin Laden's network as the United States remains on alert for attacks, U.S. officials and a diplomat in Africa told The Associated Press.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian wanted in the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, has much to say. His life has tracked al-Qaida's evolution from a tightly organized network assaulting prominent U.S. targets to a looser group struggling to maintain momentum.

Ghailani, once on the FBI's most-wanted terrorist list with a $5 million bounty for the 1998 embassy bombings, was apprehended last month in Pakistan during a sweep that netted more than 20 al-Qaida suspects in that country and led to more than a dozen arrests in Britain.

Attention surrounding the arrests has focused on another suspect, Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, an alleged al-Qaida computer expert. But Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said, "The most important arrest that has been made of late has been that of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani."

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0813AlQaidaVet13-ON.html

1,642 posted on 08/13/2004 8:25:10 PM PDT by Oorang ( Those who trade liberty for security have neither)
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