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...among the 21 hostages who were forced onto two boats on the remote island of Sipadan overnight Sunday by gunmen suspected of being members of a Philippines-based Islamic separatist movement. A spokesman for the Abu Ayyaf organization, a dwindling radical Islamic group with links to superterrorist Osama bin Laden, on Tuesday first claimed responsibility for the attack, and later (sort of) withdrew the statement, saying: "I'm not saying we are the ones; I'm also not saying we're not the ones - let's give the government a puzzle." Although Philippines officials were skeptical of the claims...
...prime threat to the safety of U.S. troops in Kosovo may come not from renegade Serbs or ultra-nationalist Albanians, but from Osama bin Laden. At least that seems to be the thinking behind a raid by NATO military police on the headquarters of the Saudi Joint Relief Committee, an Islamic charity operating in the war-ravaged territory. The BBC reported Tuesday that although the raid netted no evidence to back the claim, U.S. officials believe the group - which is partly funded by the Saudi government - may be linked with Bin Laden, and names two former officials as associates...
...Afghanistan, Iran and the Mideast played a significant role in keeping Bosnia afloat in the early years of the war there, when sanctions maintained by the West left the republic almost defenseless against Serbia and Croatia. But Kosovo played out very differently, and would be a tough nut for Bin Laden to crack. "Nobody ever found any Bin Laden links to the KLA in Kosovo," says Calabresi. "Both the KLA and the Albanian government were aggressive about keeping the mujahedeen out of the conflict because of Washington's concerns. Although Bin Laden might find a sympathetic ear among some...
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During his visit to South Africa in March 1998, Bill Clinton was enjoying a scheduled lunch with Nelson Mandela when an unscheduled visitor was suddenly invited in. It was none other than Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's maverick ambassador to Washington. The prince gets around--Clinton had asked him over for a movie and popcorn at the White House--but here he seemed far afield. Yet as a bemused U.S. President sat and listened, Bandar suddenly began to press him on an unwelcome and delicate topic: Libya. Then Mandela joined...