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...boys at the Merkaz Hatorah Jewish high school in Gagny, a middle-class suburb of Paris, had always been getting there. During the train ride from home, the boys replaced their yarmulkes with baseball caps but were still regularly hassled by other French teenagers, usually of Arab or North African descent, who called them "sales juifs" ("dirty Jews"). Once the boys made it to the school, a bright steel-and-glass building surrounded by trees and tidy homes, they felt safe. No longer. About 3 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 15, the school's brand-new building - due to open...
...will always be better than the Americans at ferreting out intelligence about insurgents. That helps explain why many in Washington privately say they regret Bremer's decision to disband the Iraqi army on May 23. U.S. officials are urgently searching for potential leaders of a new Iraqi army. An Arab businessman in close touch with the U.S. government tells TIME that one commander who has attracted attention is Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, a Sunni Muslim who was Saddam's Minister of Defense. Though Hashim was on the U.S.'s most-wanted list, this source says he was in contact...
...DUBAI Burj Al Arab Big-spending guests at the world's tallest hotel get their own individual business center and private elevator service between the two floors of the suite. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide breathtaking views of the Gulf, and guests can pamper themselves with a wide range of full-size Herm?s toiletries, all for just $5,435 a night...
...sandwiched between two floors of guest rooms - this suite is truly fit for a President. The perks include a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce, private elevator to the helicopter pad and a security post outside the room. A snip at $5,500 a night. DUBAI BURJ AL ARAB Big-spending guests at the world's tallest hotel get their own individual business center and private elevator service between the two floors of the suite. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide breathtaking views of the Gulf, and guests can pamper themselves with a wide range of full-size Hermès toiletries...
...variety of different organizations. A few thousand core operatives who have sworn loyalty to Bin Laden may today function as trainers-of-trainers, and capitalizing on Bin Laden's years of investment in training and funding for tens of thousands of the footsoldiers of localized Islamist movements throughout the Arab world and among Muslims from China to Chechnya, East Africa to Southeast Asia. And the U.S. invasion of Iraq has dramatically boosted the growth potential of this more diffuse jihadi movement over which al-Qaeda can still claim parentage. Analysts such as those at the prestigious Institute of International Strategic...