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...Valentine's Day 2002, Williams took the stand against Faisal Al Salmi, a Saudi Arabian pilot accused of lying about his connections to Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Williams testified that he had been working 16- to 18-hour days as the case agent on the FBI's post-Sept. 11 investigation in Arizona. He usually arrived at the office by 5 a.m., and he didn't take a day off until Thanksgiving. The most senior member of a joint terrorism task force, Williams was in charge...
...Saudi Arabia is financing Palestinian terrorist groups, Saudi officials angrily dismissed the charge. The Saudis, however, are not disputing a key Israeli claim: that money from the Kingdom is going to the families of suicide bombers. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal condemned suicide attacks against civilians but acknowledged that the families of the bombers have benefited from millions in Saudi aid given to the relatives of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the intifadeh. "There are 1,800 families receiving aid," he said. "How would [bombers' families] feel if all their...
...disagree with President Summers’ characterization of the role of the University, because I feel it also has a responsibility to examine its own role [in the conflict] through its investments,” said Faisal I. Chaudhry, a second-year Harvard Law School student who helped organize the divestment drive. “It’s not simply a neutral party...
...Saudi Arabia is financing Palestinian terrorist groups, Saudi officials angrily dismissed the charge. The Saudis, however, are not disputing a key Israeli claim: that money from the Kingdom is going to the families of suicide bombers. In an interview with Time last Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal condemned suicide attacks against civilians but acknowledged that the families of the bombers have benefited from millions in Saudi aid given to the relatives of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the intifadeh. "There are 1,800 families receiving aid," he said. "How would [bombers' families] feel if all their...
Events beyond Cambridge have also fallen prey to ill-advised race-based interpretations. On these pages, Harvard Law School student Faisal Chaudhry cast the war in Israel and the West Bank in racial terms, saying Israeli racism was one cause of the continuing conflict. On its face, this explanation might seem reasonable; the war is certainly between Israel—a Jewish state—and the Arab Palestinians. But the real reason for Israel’s actions is the brutal campaign of Palestinian suicide bombings that have jeopardized Israel’s security...