[Wallaby]

Imam Siraj Wahaj: A well known establishment Muslim figure in the US known for his charasmatic speaking style. Currently a prayer leader and imam at a mosque in Brooklyn, New York. A former member of the Nation of Islam, he fell out with the group's leader, Louis Farrakhan, whom he now believes cannot be considered as a Muslim. He is much admired in his neighbourhood for his work among the young, and for ridding the district of drug pushers.

"MILITANTS IN THE LINE-UP FOR CONFERENCE SEASON; Kathy Evans profiles the leaders competing for allegiance and money of British Islam," Kathy Evans, The Guardian (London) , THE GUARDIAN HOME PAGE; Pg. 8; August 5, 1995.

[thinden]

"The guys in the bomb squad had never seen an explosive like this before," says Fariscal. Neither had many U.S. investigators. "The particularly evil genius of this device was that it was virtually undetectable by airport security measures," says Vincent Cannistraro, the former head of the CIA's counter-terrorism centre.

couple things about Cannistraor's comment:

1. could a "virtually undectable" devise such as this tiny contact lense/casio timer have been the real culprit on TWA 800?
where is Michael Rivero when we need him?)
2. is shoe bomber, reid's device the next generation of the "undectable by airport security" genre?