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Osama bin Laden is to give another televised address to the world. The al-Qaeda leader is to deliver a hate-filled video on July 4, American Independence Day. The announcement was made on the Arabic Sahab website which issues daily information on the war in Afghanistan. Bin Laden was pictured on the site, kneeling between two al-Qaeda officials. His spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith says: "America should get ready and fasten its safety belt. "We will come to them from where they don't expect. Yes, we will wage attacks but at the right time, at the place we want, in the way...

From: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk Assessment Services-Monday, April 8, 2002-Vol. 8, No. 098-09:00CDT Opinion/Editorial TODAY'S CENTRAL FOCUSChange in Terrorism Tactics Reported; Suicide Bombers Could Have Major ImplicationsBy C. L. Staten, ERRI Sr. National Security AnalystThere would appear to be a paradigm change underway in the methods, practices, and tactics of world-wide terrorism. So far, it would appear that very few observers have documented this phenomena, or given it the proper due in their defensive considerations.While the press, public, and even public safety community have apparently been looking in another direction, terrorism has changed in a fundamental way. Terrorism in...

Fury over hijacker's visit to Britain By Jessica Berry (Filed: 27/05/2002) A Palestinian hijacker has been allowed back into Britain to address a London university where she promoted terrorist tactics, sparking fury among senior MPs and community groups. Leila Khaled, is a respected figure within the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which last week claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Israel. She remains a powerful symbol of the PFLP and in that capacity is a member of its central committee. On Wednesday she addressed a packed student meeting at the School for Oriental and...

<p>SAN DIEGO — A former college student authorities say helped some of the Sept. 11 hijackers is believed to have had a much larger role than previously disclosed, including helping arrange flight lessons, according to court documents and a law enforcement source.</p>

9/11 ties suspected in visa fraud By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot © May 9, 2002 NORFOLK -- A suspect in the national scheme to obtain fraudulent student visas had flight manuals, photos of people outside the World Trade Center and a date book with only one entry -- Sept. 11 -- indicating a plan at the twin towers and the Pentagon that day. Another suspect, who lived in Norfolk, also had apparent flight training materials in his car, officials said. The FBI and other federal agencies are investigating whether any of the individuals had ties to the terrorist attacks or...

This morning, Jim Quinn, host of "The War Room" (WRRK 96.9 FM Pittsburgh & warroom.com) played an audio tape made at Cleveland Center (flight control) on the morning of 9-11. To protect his source, Quinn would not say who gave it to him, but it apparently is genuine. The tape starts with Cleveland Center attempting to reach the crew of Flight 93, as they were in Cleveland's zone at the time. Heard is Cleveland speaking to other pilots who state they had overheard "yelling" and "screaming" over the airwaves. Other pilots visually help verify Flight 93's position because the hijackers...

I just heard it on a reliable WLS Chicago Talk radio program--that according to Fox News, the Saudis are compensating families of the 9-11 hijackers. I looked around for it but could not find it. Any help locating the story would be appreciated.

Six months after they flew commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has approved student visas for two of the 9/11 kamikaze hijackers who trained for the attacks at a Florida flight school. Rudi Dekkers, an employee of Huffman Aviation, displayed for TV cameras the INS forms he received on March 11 approving hijack ringleader Mohamed Atta and his lieutenant Marwan Al-Shehhi for continued study in the U.S. The incident left INS officials red-faced. quot;I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters show up at this late date,quot; agency spokesman Russ Bergeron told CNN....

<p>Whatever else you might say about the September 11 hijackers — cowardly, brave, something in between, whatever — they certainly weren't inconspicuous.</p> <p>Nine of the 19 were flagged for special security screenings that morning. That means if you were a suicide hijacker, you had about a 50 percent chance of being singled out for extra scrutiny — not bad.</p>