The Next Wave: DIRTY-BOMB, CAR-BOMB, BOAT-BOMB PLOTS

MEET THE NEW AL-QAEDA MEN, LESS POLISHED THAN THE 9/11 CREW, BUT ANY LESS LETHAL?

There's good news for the 434 suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks in which devout Muslims can perform their ritual ablutions....

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