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DETROIT (AP) — A man charged with
smuggling $12 million in bogus cashiers checks
into the United States told agents the man named
on the checks may belong to al-Qaida, authorities
said Wednesday.
Omar Shishani, 47, also told investigators dur
ing an interview that “if you want to know about
terrorism, I can help you with that,’ Assistant U.S.
Attorney Eric Straus said during a hearing.
Defense attorney Nabih Ayad denied his client
ever made such statements.
Shishani, who was born in Jordan but is of
Chechen descent, was arrested last week after arriv
ing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a flight from
Indonesia. He was jailed without bond July 17 after
pleading innocent to possession of counterfeit secu
rities and smuggling merchandise into the United
States. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
Authorities say they found nine phony cashiers
checks during a search of Shishani’s bags. Six were
dated June 10, 2002, and made payable to
“Baharuddin Masse,” the indictment said. The other
checks were dated Sept. 3, Sept. 5 and Sept. 6, 2002.
Authorities also found a piece of paper with
Arabic writing that appeared to be verses from the
Quran, some of which Straus said were suggestive
of “cataclysmic or apocalyptic events.”
Shishani told agents he believes Masse may
belong to al-Qaida, has made pro- al-Qaida state
ments and named his daughter al-Qaida, Straus said.
The suspect’s attorney said Shishani only said
the part about the girl.
Two of the checks were for $5 million each;
two were for $500,000 each; and five were for
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$200,000 each, the affidavit said. The cl
labeled “cashier check,” were purport;
issued by the Pomona, Calif., branch oft
America Bank.
There is no Pomona branch of the
Secret Service agent Clarence T. fastersl:
the affidavit.
Shishani emigrated to the United State
1979, where he married. He became aU.S.cit
in 1989, his lawyer said. From 1974-1}
Shishani served with the Jordan intelligences | As the c
ice. receiving instruction in spy craft andcoiiE many peop
surveillance techniques, court documents shot maintainin
Ayad described Shishani as a broker whov skin seem:
to Indonesia to work on a deal with Masse.as season, bu
broker. The deal fell through, Ayad sakE good now
Shishani was instructed to return with thechee in later ye;
Shishani didn’t know the checks were ton Accord
lent and didn’t bring them to Indonesia, Ayada Administr;
He said they originated with a man in Califo: can result
whom Ayad would not identify. wrinkles a
Shishani told federal authorities that he ha; all the sur
closed a deal in four years. Shishani’s fan# amount of
Jordan says Shishani is simply a wealthy comp too much.
er salesman who has no links to terrorism.
Authorities searched Shishani’s home ini
by Dearborn. Straus said several financial dtt are many t
ments were seized, including a December 2
statement indicating Shishani had roughly Si
million, much of that in jewelry and artwork.
His attorney said that the statement is false
that his client is not wealthy. Shishani briefly
a business in Detroit in the mid-1990s deal;
with computers. Ayad said.
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requires a Virtual Private Network
(VPN) server and the LDAP serv
er which can use the same pass
word and account name as Neo.
There is a threat of “rogue
access points” or “throw-
downs” with wireless access,
which is one of the disadvan
tages of the system. These are
ports that are simply installed
and not managed under the
A&M standards for encryption
and security, Marti said.
Marti emphasized the differ
ence between wireless systems
that are simply wired rather than
engineered and managed.
The advantage to VPN is its
success and ability to provide
what A&M users need with
wireless access, confidentiality
and authentication, he said.
The biggest disadvantage to
the system is the incompatibility
with devices such as Personal
Data Assistants.
The demand from on-cam
pus users has spread from
Windows and Macintosh com
patible devices to a broader
range that VPN cannot provide
with wireless access.
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of Southern California, and poet Reetika Vazirani,
winner of the Pushcart Prize for her poem
“Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta.”
Admission to the workshop is extremely com
petitive. Screeners evaluate applicants and select
the people that will be participating, Rowell said.
Students and faculty work together for the
workshops, meeting as a group for three hours
each day. They have the afternoon off to read,
write or have individual conferences with the fac
ulty, Rowell said.
If any of the attendees show promise, they may
be featured in a future issue of Cailaloo.
“If [any attendees] are publishable, we will pub
lish them,” Rowell said. “In fact, three of the partici
pants from last year will be appearing in the journal.”
The faculty will hold a public reading during
the first week, and on the last evening of the
workshop, there will be a public reading for a
small audience made up of participants and
invited guests.
Krissa Fritsche, a junior history major said she
is familiar with Callaloo.
“I think [the Callaloo workshop] is a great
avenue for new writers to get useful advice,”
Fritsche said. “I’ve heard a lot about it and I think
it’s great that Callaloo is having their workshops
right here at A&M.”
Cass
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here that still have a work ethic
and a will to win.”
After his dad signed him up
for a tennis camp, Cass became
interested in the game and began
focusing on building a tennis
career. His focus helped him
become an All-American his
senior season at New Mexico.
“I had always wanted to keep
playing tennis after college,”
Cass said. “But after I graduated
I realized I probably wasn’t
good enough to make a living
playing pro tennis, so I turned
my sights to coaching.”
Months after graduating,
Cass was hired as the head
coach of the Lobos’ tennis team
at the age of 23, one of the
youngest head coaches in
NCAA history.
After rebuilding the program
for two years, including his first
season when he ran an ad in the
school newspaper just to find
enough players to finish the sea
son, Cass guided New Mexico
to its first ever WAC
Championship and began a
string of six consecutive trips to
the NCAA Championships
before coming to A&M.
At A&M, the job was not
much easier, but Cass started
quickly and his first recruiting
class in 1997 was ranked No. I
in the nation by College Tennis
Weekly.
In 2001, the Aggies reached
the Elite Eight in the NCAA
Championships and were
ranked No. 4 in the nation.
“There are jobs that you will
always be interested in no mat
ter what kind of career you
have,” Cass said. “A&M is cer
tainly one of those jobs for a
coach. 1 had always liked Texas
A&M, and it was a spot that had
a great tradition of supporting
their sports programs. I pursued
the job when it came open and I
was excited that A&M was
interested.”
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my players to be able to
me and trust me. Whether il
problems with a girlfriend,
parents, a teammate or in tk
classroom, I think my players
know they can sit in here and
talk to me about it.”
Now married with an phi
month-old son, Cass is not set
ting any immediate plans to
leave A&M.
“If we had won the nafitw
championship this seaM
might have retired,” Cassjote
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where I feel like I’ve done air
can do here and it is time toga
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entitled Donald Barthelme: The
Genesis of a Cool Sound, was
featured at the 2001 Texas Book
Festival. In her book, she wrote
the memoirs of her ex-husband,
Donald Barthelme, who was
also an award-winning author.
After teaching for several
years at the University of
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Houston, Barthelme came to
A&M in June 1987 as a visit
ing assistant professor and the
coordinator of writing special
ization. She became a senior
lecturer in 1992.
Barthelme received her
bachelor’s degree in journalism
and her master’s degree in com
munications from the
University of Houston and later
earned her Ph.D. from the
University of Texas in
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Barthelme was also a pilot
during the 1950s and 1960s and
owned an advertising firm with
her sister.
Anyone wishing to donate
can write a check to the Texas
A&M Foundation, write
Barthelme’s name on the memo
line, and send it to A&M’s
English department, Ives said.
“Texas A&M really meant a
lot to her,” she said.
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destroyed building used to train the firefighters in
how to handle a natural disaster such as a tornado
or hurricane.
Sometimes college students are recruited to
play victims in these scenes and the firemen must
rescue them from “Disaster City,” Roccaforde said.
The students at the training school start their
day at 8 a.m. and work until 8 p.m. During train
ing, the students rotate between different types of
fires and listening to lectures on how to assess
different situations.
Heather Allen, a volunteer firefighter since the
age of 16, said this is the first time she has ^
able to attend Brayton. Although she has
with the Klein Fire Department in Houston
long time, she is new to the Brazos County
Department. , |
“It just looked like fun and I figured 1 mig 1
well give back to the community,” Allen sai •
Wednesday night at an open house, the
fighters demonstrated the latest firefighting ^
niques on several of the props on the training |[
and children were treated to fire safety instructi'
“I never knew that fighting fir es waS
organized. It is interesting to see
hat the fc
fighters do in their training,” said B f o
Swindle, a visitor to Brayton and A&M C aS
2002 graduate.
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