Two Arab men were indicted in New Orleans for what New York officials yesterday called the "most outrageous" attempt to capitalize on the World Trade Center tragedy to date. Jihad Razzaq tried to cash in his wife's $100,000 life-insurance policy when in fact she had left the United States for her native Jordan. The 54-year-old man apparently told New York Life that his wife was shopping at the World Trade Center site when the buildings crumbled. Red flags were raised when he said she had taken a taxi there from New Orleans.
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