... a Northern Ireland prison in 1981, followed by nine of his comrades who did the same. ''It's a group contract,'' he theorized. ''Once one is dead there is no one to release the others.'' Maybe it was something like that. My last conversation in Tel Aviv, in a corner of a cavernous hotel lobby ... hadn't imagined that Sept. 11 could be more of a live wire in Hamburg than it had been on my first two stops. Now I was walking the same streets Mohamed Atta walked -- past the seedy downtown sex shops near the railway station to the Al Quds mosque, located over a bodybuilding salon ... interp...

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