Not that I've been there, but the last I heard, China was still an almost totalitarian communist state and free travel in China is not possible. In all likelyhood the hotel he stayed at is one where all westerners stay. It's also possible that airline schedules being what they are provided reasons for the same day arrival departure coincidences. As for the hotel not having a record of him, it could be they misplaced it, or more likely misspelled his name, etc, or he didn't want to be tracked so he used Mike Smith... Many things are possible, not all have to be true. ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monitor, or under your keyboard, you \/|\/ /|\ :their failures, we |don't email them, or put them on a web \|/ + v + :should get refunds! |site, and you must change them very often. --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------ On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
Hawash flew to China and returned to the US on exactly the same dates as the other guys.
Hawash appears to have stayed in the same building as the other guys. His and the other guy's lodging was in the same building, but different hotels, and the hotel that Hawash had reservations to stay at doesn't have a record of him being there.