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9/11 Panel Questions Two Hijackers' Help Sept. 11 Commission Wonders Why Two Hijackers Got Help From Two Muslim Men When in U.S. The Associated Press WASHINGTON June 27, 2004 — The FBI long has contended that not a single al-Qaida operative in the United States collaborated with the 19 hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks. Yet the commission investigating the attacks has identified two Muslim men who may have had advance knowledge of the plot. The commission found that two hijackers got substantial help from Mohdar Abdullah and Anwar Aulaqi after settling in California in 2000. The bipartisan panel created...

Hey fellow Freepers- "br" "br" Well, my wife and I just found out this morning that we are getting stationed at Travis AFB, situated in Fairfield, Ca. Although I shudder about moving to California, we are optimistic about it."br" "br" We've started researching it, and we'd like to hear any comments from fellow Freepers that live there or near there. We are DINKs, so we don't care about schools, but how is everything else?

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) - A City Council candidate, who owned a discount travel agency, was arrested on charges of bilking $50,000 from customers - a day before voters were to decide his political fate. Iqbal "Paul" Randhawa, 52, was arrested at his Fairfield home Monday, along with his wife, Gurdev "Debbie" Randhawa, and their son Manjinder "Manny" Randhawa. The family operates M&K Travel Services Inc. in San Francisco, Fairfield and San Jose. Prosecutors said the Randhawas and their employees sold more than $50,000 in airline tickets, mostly for travel to India, that were never delivered between May 2004 and June...

Sun Microsystems Inc. has tapped into the pulse of the identity management market. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has recently taken its Web single sign-on (SSO) offering open source, while at the same time announcing high profile implementations of its Java-based identity management software. Identity management is software that automates administrative tasks, such as resetting user passwords. It can also reduce the time it takes IT managers to provision numerous user accounts and can automatically expire old user passwords, which often raise security concerns. Sun's plan to open source its Web SSO -- a major component of its identity management...

(FAIRFIELD, OH) -- The Fairfield Fire Department is offering a 5,000 dollar reward for information leading to an arrest in a fire that destroyed a car belonging to the family of Tim Hines. Anyone with information can call a special tip line at 513-867-4254 in the case. The car was destroyed on Saturday. Today, firefighters from the department walked the neighborhood distributing flyers with the number in hopes of gathering new leads. Hines was an Iraq War veteran who was laid to rest just the day before. He died in a Washington Hospital after being critically injured by a roadside...

Two friends of the men accused of killing Fairfield University football star Mark Fisher were charged with witness tampering yesterday — for trying to scare a witness by alluding to a mob-style whacking on "The Sopranos," prosecutors said. Assistant District Attorney Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi told a Brooklyn judge the pair were members of a tight-knit group called the "Ghetto Mafia" and were trying to hinder the ongoing investigation into the gridiron star's murder in October 2003. Basically, they picked up an individual and made a very clear reference to an episode of 'The Sopranos' where a witness cooperating with authorities was...

SKOWHEGAN -- A 26-year-old Fairfield man was sentenced to 18 months behind bars Tuesday for beating a 4-month-old wolf-hybrid puppy to death with his fists. James Mayhew pleaded guilty to aggravated animal cruelty in Somerset County Superior Court. Superior Court Chief Justice Nancy Mills sentenced Mayhew to five years in prison with all but 18 months suspended. Mayhew will be on probation for four years after he is released. Kennebec and Somerset County District Attorney Evert N. Fowle said Tuesday afternoon that his office treats animal cruelty cases seriously because studies show a link between abuse of animals and violence...

We recently traveled to the NYC area...a bus left us off on the opposite side of a fourlane highway at our hotel, after ( we were five adults and two sleeping kids) getting back at 11PM Friday evening..we made it across to the median and when we crossed the final twolanes, my son-in-law dropped his camera..I went to go get it and stumbled and fell..cars did not slow down ..I missed gettin g run over by a foot & a half..I've torn my rotar cuff in my shoulder a nd got a concussion and a cut over the eye..there was...

FLAG DAY IN FAIRFIELD, CA SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2003 1500 HRS. / 3:00 P.M. Please bring your Flags Cars, Trucks, Bikes, and Yourselves. ________________________________________ Across from K-Mart In the Mission Village Shopping Center PLEASE COME OUT AND SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! GOD BLESS AMERICA!