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...identified hijacker photographs. Another Waleed Alshehri, son of a Saudi diplomat, is alive in Morocco and working for the Saudi airlines. A man using the name Abdul Alomari, born Dec. 24, 1972, is listed on the passenger manifest of Flight 11. But someone called Abdulaziz Alomari who shares that birth date is alive and well in Riyadh. Last week he told a newspaper that in 1995, when he was studying engineering at the University of Denver, his passport was stolen...
Part of the difficulty in sorting out the identities is that names like Alshehri are as common in Saudi Arabia as Smith is in the U.S. Hence Saudi authorities are pressing U.S. investigators for middle names and dates of birth. Still, using the FBI's list of names, Saudi newspapers have tracked down the families of most of the suspected hijackers. The reporters have found that relatives often haven't seen the men in several months or more. The kingdom's Daily Arab News reported last week that at least five of the hijackers told their families several months...
...because he said his crew did not feel comfortable with the man aboard. Delta offered him a new ticket--on another carrier. (It later apologized.) In Lincoln, R.I., someone hit a pregnant woman wearing a hijab (head scarf) with a stone. She has been calling midwives to avoid giving birth in the hospital because "I don't want to go to any public place." A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,032 adults indicated that 49% thought all Arabs--American citizens included--should have to carry special ID cards...
...Saudi Arabia from neighboring Yemen, a desperately poor country looked down on by Saudis. If bin Laden felt any alienation or resentment about his status, it was good preparation for the break he would ultimately make with the privileged and bourgeois life that was laid out for him at birth...
...uloom gave birth in the 19th century to the Doebandi movement, a regenerative brand of Islam which rapidly spread across British India and central Asia. It was picked up 20 years ago as a God-given practice, the true path, by some village Afghans along Pakistan's border. As the Taliban they imposed their version, which draws heavily from their own austere tribal traditions, on a nation exhausted after years of civil war. While the intellectual underpinnings are similar, Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban, Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, a definitive history of the Taliban writes...