From the main street here, you can see the Manhattan skyline, off in the distance. The flags that sprouted after the Sept. 11 attacks still flap on lawns and flutter on poles outside well-tended homes. Looming above them is a concrete tower that houses a real estate firm, an office supplies company - and, investigators fear, an outpost of Al Qaeda. On the second floor, an Internet company called Fortress ITX unwittingly provided access until recently for an Arabic-language Web site where postings in recent weeks urged attacks against American and Israeli targets. "The Art of Kidnapping" was explained in electronic pamphlets, along with "Military Instructions to the Mujahedeen," and "War Inside the Cities."
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