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Eric Schmitt and James Dao report in The New York Times of February 4 that the top Marine general for Central Asia and the Persian Gulf is moving his headquarters to Bahrain from Hawaii. His counterparts in Army, Navy and Air Force have already moved to the region.More than 1,000 war planners, logistics experts and support specialists are now at sophisticated command posts in the region, ready to act. This is the first time so many senior commanders have been placed in war-ready positions since the gulf war in 1991. General Tommy Franks, of the military Central Command, remains at his headquarters in Tampa, Florida, but is traveling frequently to the region. These moves suggest that new U.S. attacks against terrorism may be imminent.
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The man who tried to blow up an American airplane has been identified as Richard Reid, age 28, a small-time British criminal. He was identified by British police from fingerprints sent by the FBI. He was born in southeast London in 1973. His mother Lesley is English and his father Colvin is Jamaican.

He belonged to a mosque in a poor area of London that was also attended by one of the suspected terrorists behind the September 11 attacks. His mother came to the mosque looking for her son several months ago after he went to Pakistan and stopped communicating with his family
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A Turkish student carrying explosives and a bio-protection suit is being held in Germany after being arrested as he tried to board a flight to Iran. The 29-year-old man, identified as Harun Aydin, was arrested at Frankfurt airport last Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to ?an Islamist terrorist organization planning serious violent attacks,? German prosecutors said. He was carrying both a German and a Turkish passport.
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A third employee who worked in the AMI publishing building in Boca Raton, Florida, has tested positive for exposure to the anthrax bacteria. The unidentified 35-year-old woman is being treated with antibiotics and is not expected to develop the deadly disease, Florida Health Secretary John Agwunobi says. One employee, Robert Stevens, died of the disease, and a second, Ernesto Blanco, also tested positive for exposure to it.
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