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...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder which are available only at the invitation of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the U.A.E. Mere mortals can content themselves with the hotel's other wings, where standard rooms begin at a heart-stopping $625 a night. They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls...
...hotel's centerpiece is the 42-m-wide Grand Atrium, flanked by five stories of top-tier suites, including the six Royal Suites, which are available only at the invitation of Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the U.A.E. Mere mortals can content themselves with the hotel's other wings, where standard rooms begin at a heart-stopping $625 a night. They do, however, come with high-faluting technology (including touch-pad controls and 50-in. plasma screens) and a butler service. Dining facilities comprise 14 restaurants?four are open now, with...
...Sayyaf was founded in the 1980s, with the backing of men who were at the heart of al-Qaeda. No less a figure than Osama bin Laden's own brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, personally arranged initial funding for the group through one of the Islamic charities he operated in the Philippines at the time. But after the death of Abu Sayyaf's founder Abdurajak Janjalani in a firefight with police in August 1998, its religious and political goals were dropped in favor of kidnapping for ransom. The group was paid millions of dollars by the governments of Malaysia...
Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 53, the Emir of Qatar, has shouldered the political burden and financial cost of sponsoring al-Jazeera. With an estimated 35 million viewers, the network is being imitated across the region. Al-Jazeera has angered Arab governments by giving airtime to rebel movements and freedom advocates and tackling taboo topics like polygamy and apostasy. And Arab opinion has been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended...
...capture of two suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil, was arrested on Sept. 25 in the city of Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until the country's authorities barred him from entry in 1994 on suspicion of providing funding to Islamic militants and possible involvement in a plot to blow up 12 U.S. airliners over...