On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:58:01AM -0400, Sunder wrote:

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...

Also keep in mind that the evidence against Hawash re: his China trip largely came from Chinese government functionaries, who as we know from SARS are reliable exemplars of truthtelling at all times. -Declan