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...next generation taking over Dad's family terror business? With Osama bin Laden on the run or dead--depending on which rumor you believe--prominent Arab newspapers like the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat speculated last week that one of his sons, Saad bin Laden, has taken control of the Al Qaeda network. The CIA and other Arab experts don't think so. But with many of bin Laden's top lieutenants captured or killed, there's room now for the young man to move up, the agency believes...
...means over the past month to sabotage al-Qaeda's presence on the Internet, including the installation of decoy pages, and the hogging of similar domain names in an effort to hobble efforts by supporters of the terror network to reestablish their site. Even in cyberspace, it seems, Osama Bin Laden's group is on the defensive. "Do not be deceived by the blasphemous behavior of the crusaders, be aware of this war," warned a statement on the site, hastily re-established under a numerical address...
...Even more important, perhaps, is the site's propaganda function. In addition to religious tutelage on the merits of al-Qaeda's view of "jihad" and "martyrdom," the site provides news of the well-being of key al-Qaeda leaders, and occasionally even carries their audio-taped statements. Bin Laden spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith used al-Qaeda-friendly Web sites last month to prove that he remains alive and at large, and to raise the morale of its operatives. His audio-taped statement, whose authenticity was confirmed in Washington, insisted that Osama bin Laden has survived the U.S. campaign...
...aside $11 million for marketing this year, one of the biggest corporate-marketing budgets in China. Higher-end product lines, created with the help of top sports-shoe designers Massimiliano Zago of Italy and Paviot Jean-Philippe of France, are being added to counteract the brand's bargain-bin tinge...
...DIED. PRINCE AHMED BIN SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ, 43, owner of numerous prize race horses including 2002 Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem, of a heart attack; in Riyadh. Prince Ahmed's death was the first of two blows to the Saudi royal family. His cousin Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah, 41, died in a car accident on his way to Prince Ahmed's funeral. RETIRED. MIKA HAKKINEN, 33, two-time Formula One champion; announced in Hockenheim, Germany. Born in Vantaa, Finland, the 'Flying Finn' recovered from a near-fatal crash at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix...