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...years ago, foreign al-Qaeda fighters turned the village of Mir Bacha Kot outside Kabul into a terrorist-training camp. Some six hours of video were recently found there, according to Afghan intelligence sources. These haunting still images from the videotape show what appear to be Arab, African and European fighters honing their deadly craft--all prelude, it turns out, to the group's much bolder and more horrific attack on Sept...
...money, men and serious theological underpinnings. Saudi Arabia is a vast country in which local tribal leaders can be wooed and bought, as in Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia, where a constant stream of tens of thousands of foreigners from all over the world legitimately makes pilgrimages to Mecca, foreign Arab terrorists don't stick out. Would a relatively weak Saudi government crack down on a rich, highly organized and entrenched terrorist group staunchly supported by the Saudi people? And would the U.S. strike a country that supplies 18% of its oil? GERRY FELDMAN East Brunswick...
Silence on the Arab Street...
...Qaeda leader's 53 siblings is planning to turn the family name into a fashion label. Britain's Guardian reports that Geneva-based Yeslam Binladin, who spells his name differently from his notorious brother, had registered the name for a moderately priced fashion range for Arab and European markets long before September 11. And he has no intention of changing his plans. "The name is one of the most famous names in the world," Yeslam's lawyer was quoted as saying. "We think that people are able to distinguish between Osama and the rest of the family." And even...
...thrown off an American Airlines plane on Christmas Day because of alleged problems with paperwork permitting him to carry a handgun. The pilot says the agent, identified in news reports as Walied Schater, got belligerent. Schater, through lawyers, says he was discriminated against because he's of Arab descent. Whoever is right, the event may increase calls for something the airlines have pressed for since Sept. 11: the ability to identify just who is getting on their planes. "This case lends support to our calls for some kind of government-approved profiling," says Michael Wascom of the Air Transport Association...