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SACRAMENTO (AP) - The terrorist believed to have flown a hijacked airliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, obtained a California driver's license without providing the required Social Security number for identification, officials are acknowledging for the first time. Nawaf Alhazmi then used that license when he registered for the flight training that enabled him to pilot the doomed airliner. Alhazmi used a loophole, since closed, in California law that allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign drivers without Social Security numbers to use a generic number in its place. Even some foreign citizens with Social Security numbers skirted the...

U.S. Senate targets Malaysia over PM's assertions that Jews control world Last Update: 27/10/2003 22:10 U.S. Senate targets Malaysia over Mahathir comments By Reuters WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Monday placed restrictions on some U.S. aid to Malaysia to show its displeasure over Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's recent assertions that Jews control the world by proxy. The Senate unanimously agreed to condition $1.2 million in military training assistance to Malaysia on a determination by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that the country supports and promotes religious freedom, including for Jews. The provision was added to an $18...