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Salim admitted to German interrogators that he worked for bin Laden's business enterprises in Sudan, including Themar. But according to a transcript of his interrogation, he insisted that "my relationship with [bin Laden] was as an employee with a contract and monthly pay." When recruited to run the businesses, Salim said, he told bin Laden that "I was an electrical engineer, not a finance specialist. He said that was not important because he knew me to be an honest man and that I would manage...
...That is, not if you're CNBC's GERALDO RIVERA, the theatrical journalist who longs to be the bride at every wedding, the ham in every sandwich and, lately, the mullah in every mountain. Rivera, a veteran foreign correspondent, talked his way out of his $4 million-a-year contract after parent company NBC declined to send him to Afghanistan. Fox News grabbed the talk-show host and plans to ship him out mid-November. Rivera says he has contacts with the Northern Alliance; he previously reported from Afghanistan on the drug war. "As much as I love my CNBC...
Today, the greatest danger to stability doesn’t come from rogue nations or evil empires, but from “states of concern” where the ink on the social contract isn’t dry, quasi-nations whose borders are just lines on a dead British general’s map. After all, what is a United Nations peacekeeping mission but an alliance of the states against the non-states? The line between “nation-building” and our national interest, drawn so often by Bush during the campaign, is looking blurrier...
While the author didn't have final say over the movie, her contract gave her a consulting role, and she will receive a share of the profits. "When I optioned the book," says Heyman, who most recently produced the savagely dark 1999 cannibalism comedy Ravenous, "I made a promise to Jo that I wanted the film to be as faithful to her vision as possible. Her books work. That's the reason 100 million have been sold." Although she rarely visited the set, Rowling was involved during preproduction, when crucial design and plot decisions were being made. Columbus wondered early...
Peabody's fuel-supply contract with the Mohave Generating Station ends in 2005. But the power plant is required to start installing scrubbers on its smokestacks before then, and its executives do not want to spend $400 million on that project unless the Hopi water problem is resolved. Either Washington gives Peabody permission to pump aquifer water for the life of the mine, which could be an additional 15 years, or an alternative water source must be found for the slurry pipeline. "We have to decide by next year," says Nader Mansour, manager for environmental regulations for Southern California Edison...