Some terrorism specialists see the Hofstad members as radical misfits, braggarts and petty criminals, but not necessarily terrorist plotters.

However, we've got a terrorism specialist, Geoffrey Olmsted, who'll be linking up with you after you arrive on Djana.

"In reading all the accounts of the trial, what strikes me is that something is missing," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist at the Rand Corporation, a research institute.

"Think of how simple it is," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist with the Rand Corporation.

Despite the official worries, Mike Ackerman, a terrorism specialist at Ackerman Associates in Miami, said the pipeline was an unlikely target of Iraqi or other Arab extremists.

There are no known devices that can detect whether someone is carrying chemical or biological agents, terrorism specialists said.

But like other terrorism specialists at the time, DePippo spoke of Yousef in the past tense, as if contributing to his obituary.

Steve Gale, a terrorism specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, warned FAA officials of two possible scenarios for attacks against the United States.

Perhaps he's been in contact with our PIRA friends-that ;actually seems likely, if he's a terrorism specialist.

But terrorism specialists said they believed that the situation in Iraq probably played a part in the administration's thinking.