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Mohammed has long been close to Ramzi Yousef, a Pakistani now serving life plus 240 years for directing the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Some sources believe that Mohammed, whose family is from Pakistan, is an uncle of Yousef, though in the Arab world uncle can be a flexible term. Roland Jacquard, a French expert on Islamic terrorism, says Mohammed first came to the attention of American investigators as they searched for Yousef after the 1993 bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain...
...pollution from industrial economies may have caused these droughts - research suggests that sulphur dioxide from factories in Europe and the U.S. has cooled the Northern Hemisphere, driving the tropical rain belt south away from the Sahel. ISRAEL Powell on Palestine In an interview with al-Hayat, a London-based Arabic-language newspaper, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that, as part of efforts to create a full Palestinian state, it might be necessary to have a provisional state as an interim step. He also made it clear that the U.S. would continue working with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat...
...Laden's men tend to be repressed puritans rather than penitent sinners) but also because they'd be prime candidates for recruitment by Western intelligence agencies. And because Western volunteers are generally converts, al-Qaeda would not have the community and kinship networks available to them in the Arab world to verify the credentials of men like Padilla. That would dictate that while they would be given training and logistical means to harm al-Qaeda's enemies, they would be kept away from information that, in the wrong hands, would harm the network...
...Hardball,” as Hussein Ibish of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee tried to argue Yasin’s case—saying that the Harvard Commencement speaker aims only to reclaim the term “jihad” and give it spiritual meaning—Matthews keeps interrupting...
...president of the Islamic Society, he arranged for several dialogue groups with Hillel, and HIS also started its regular interfaith dialogues between itself, Hillel and CSA, which have continued through to today,” wrote Rita Hamad ’03, former president of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) and a close friend of Yasin’s, on the Eliot list. “And he defended the HLF based on his work with them in Albania, where he was doing public service work...