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...American Flight 11 with Atta. Abdulaziz Alomari told his Vero Beach landlord in July 2000 that he was a Saudi commercial pilot when he moved in with a wife and three kids. He was then taking classes at FlightSafety Academy, often patronized by employees from Saudi Arabian Airlines. He too would have had the rudimentary skills needed to steer an airliner. Says a neighbor: "My kids played with his kids. I'm stunned." He was aboard Flight 11 as well. Of the five hijackers on board, four were U.S.-trained pilots...
...Saudi Arabian man was stabbed in downtown Boston in the early hours of Sunday morning, in what Boston Police Department (BPD) say may be a hate crime...
...team from the German Archaeological Institute, meanwhile, has uncovered dozens of multistory mausoleums in a cemetery area southwest of the oval enclosure. "We have excavated less than 1% of the entire site," Glanzman marvels. "This is the largest and one of the most important pre-Islamic sanctuaries on the Arabian peninsula. It's really, really huge...
...century A.D. The potsherds are particularly important, Glanzman says. "They may be the key to sequencing the archaeological history of the region. The technology is very sophisticated and shows a high level of civilization." References in the inscriptions reveal that the temple was dedicated to Almaqah, the southern Arabian god of the moon and of agricultural fertility...
...Glanzman's assertion would once have been considered ludicrous. That's because experts believed the earliest signs of civilization on the Arabian peninsula dated to just 700 B.C., more than 200 years after the Queen of Sheba's lifetime. But in the late 1980s, pottery shards from Wadi al-Jubah, not far from Marib, was found to be 3,500 years old. Suddenly, a wealth of other circumstantial evidence, both cultural and religious, made the Queen's existence seem a lot more plausible...