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<p>BOSTON — Federal agents late Thursday night raided a Quincy, Mass., company that provides critical software to major U.S. agencies and is suspected of having ties to Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda terrorists.</p> <p>Ptech Inc.'s clients include the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Energy Department, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Naval air systems, the U.S. Air Force, NATO, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Department of Energy and the agency that handles nuclear weapons security, according to its Web site.</p>

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryNovember 16, 2002 Radio Address by the President to the Nation      Fact Sheet     Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This was a productive week in the war against terror, both at home and abroad. Congress returned to Washington with renewed energy and a commitment to make progress on key issues. Members of the House and Senate reached a crucial agreement to create a new department of homeland security. With Congress' vote on the final legislation, America will have a single agency with the full-time duty of protecting our people against attack. This new department will focus...

President Bush is leaning toward forming one U.S. border agency "to focus on the holes in our border process," administration sources told United Press International Tuesday. One source said "he is nowhere close to making a decision" on whether Homeland Director Tom Ridge would head the new agency. At a meeting Tuesday of the Homeland Security Council, President Bush was offered three options, according to these sources. One was to form a border agency that would combine the U.S. Treasury's Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, forming one of the largest enforcement agencies in government and dwarfing others...