IP: a couple of things

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:56:03 -0700
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com>
> Subject: a couple of things
>
> First, I heard on a local station last night that a Yemeni diplomat and 
> his party were detained at SFO for several hours yesterday (in handcuffs 
> even) by local police when one of them showed a number of passports at 
> checkin at the airport.  The diplomat was Yemen's "honorary consul" in San 
> Francisco.  (I'm not sure if honory consular people in Yemen are actually 
> real diplomats from the home country or not).  He was interviewed on the 
> air though.  Interestingly, i cant find any reference to this on either of 
> the local radio stations website that i heard similar stories on.  (KSJO 
> AM560 and KCBS AM740).  But maybe it scrolled off.  Apparently the local 
> police held him and the group until the FBI could come down to the airport 
> and verify his diplomatic identity and then let him go.
>
> The other piece I found interesting is this story from the washington post 
> analyzing a bit, the 5 page document found in Atta's luggage (which didn't 
> make it onto the flight to the World Trade Center he was on from his 
> connecting flight from Portland).  It analyzes the similarities and 
> differences between the spiritual wording in the document and traditional 
> Islamic writings.  That one is at: 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37629-2001Sep27.html
>
> Thanks,
>   -jcp-
>
>
> Joseph C. Pistritto                             Cell: 650 464 4859
> jcp () jcphome com                             Web: www.jcphome.com



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