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WASHINGTON - The 585-page report on the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, published Thursday, reveals new information on Al-Qaida efforts to attack Israel and gives details of an attempt by Israeli to stop the hijackers from entering the cockpit of one of the two planes flown into the World Trade Center. According to the report by the September 11 commission, a high-ranking Al-Qaida operations official, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, currently in U.S. custody, admitted during questioning that the terrorist network was planning other attacks along with those of September 11. During the summer of 2001, according to the...

OCTOBER 17, 2009 Rajaratnam Surfaced in U.S. Terrorism Probe By EVAN PEREZ and MATTHEW ROSENBERG WASHINGTON—The hedge-fund billionaire charged as part of a vast insider-trading case surfaced in an earlier, separate probe into U.S. fundraising by a Sri Lankan terrorist group, people familiar with the probe said. As part of that investigation, federal agents said they uncovered documents showing that Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, was among several wealthy Sri Lankans in the U.S. whose donations to a Maryland-based charity made their way to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, according to people familiar with the probe. Raj...

AKAMAI WORKED BRIEFLY this week with Al-Jazeera to understand the issues they are having distributing their Web sites. "We ultimately decided not to continue a customer relationship with Al-Jazeera, and we are not going to be providing them our services,” according to a statement released by Akamai. The company declined to elaborate on the reasons. The end of the Akamai relationship is the latest setback for Al-Jazeera’s Web efforts. Both the Arabic and English versions of the Web site were vandalized last month — visitors were greeted with an American flag and a pro-U.S. message. The apparent hack came on...