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...have a precious diamond, do you leave it in the public hands?” the Druze sheikh would always...
...ADIA's managing director, Sheik Ahmed, who was the son of Sheika Mouza, another wife of Sheikh Zayed, held one of the few pillars of the oil-soaked emirate's economy not dominated by the powerful crown prince and his full brothers. Christopher M. Davidson, senior lecturer at Durham University and author of Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, says that with Sheik Ahmed out of the picture, the crown prince and his brothers are likely to move on ADIA. "Then they will control virtually all of Abu Dhabi's economy," he says...
...January, when most of Attorney General Eric Holder's friends and enemies turned against his plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, one man stood by him. And he was a good friend to have. At a Situation Room session on Jan. 29, Holder was virtually alone in arguing for sticking with a civilian trial for KSM. A Manhattan jury, he said, would produce a quick conviction - and that image would help restore America's reputation in the world. When others in the room argued in favor of military tribunals with special...
...easy to imagine that Holder and Obama, in those private moments, might be a little bewildered - and defensive - about the way their handling of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial has turned out. Obama rejected military tribunals during his presidential campaign and suspended them soon after he took office. By July, Obama had asked Holder to decide whether it was feasible to prosecute KSM in a civilian court. Holder chewed on that question for weeks. Meanwhile, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who opposed civilian trials, asked Holder to meet with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina...
...Graham, moreover, has brought other issues into the negotiations. "You should not be able to close Guantánamo Bay simply by putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military court," Graham said on Fox News on March 5. Among the other measures he wants to see implemented is legislation that would allow holding terrorism suspects without trial or charge and a method of handling detainees who win their habeas corpus cases. Bringing KSM into a military trial, Graham said, "is a good start to find a way forward...