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Ahmed Omar Abu Ali says he survived torture in a Saudi prison. Now the 23-year-old American, indicted on questionable charges of involvement in an alleged al-Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush, faces another tough challenge: the puzzling vagaries of post-9/11 U.S. justice. The son of Jordanian immigrants from Falls Church, Va., Abu Ali was arrested in a security sweep on June 9, 2003, while taking an exam at the Islamic University of Medina. He then languished for months in a Saudi jail. He was interrogated and, his family claims, tortured. All the while...
Thank God for Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The best actor working in Asian cinema today can redeem any scene and endow even the most artificial plot with a few degrees of soul. Like Chow Yun-fat before he disappeared into Hollywood, Leung seems able to rise above his material and effortlessly make off with any film. It's no surprise that he plays such an accomplished thief in his latest project, the diverting Seoul Raiders...
...Albany Pair Aug. 5, 2004 An imam and a pizza-shop owner were nabbed for allegedly laundering cash they thought was from a terrorist plot Free on bail. Justice said, based on a note found in Iraq, that Imam Yassin Aref, left, was an al-Qaeda leader but later said it had misread brother in Kurdish as commander in Arabic
...Sadie herself proudly proclaims, “Everything I tells you happen long ago. Me I remembers it just like morning…No need to write it down.”) Having just received a marriage proposal from a Chas Freeman, who vanishes quickly after having fulfilled this plot function, but uncertain whether she has the heart to follow him to Nebraska, where he has military duty, Marianne turns to her Nanna Sadie for advice...
Perhaps screenwriters Frank Cappello, Kevin Brodbin, and Mark Bomback inserted the line to smooth over some of the ugly stitches in this Frankenstein of a religious piece. But like paranormal John Constantine himself, audiences can’t help but see the ugly truth beneath the skin. Some plot points are never adequately explained: how did Constantine return from hell the first time? When and how did Satan have a son? Characters’ motivations are equally murky—Gabriel, for example, comes off as part saint, part sadist, and we’re left guessing whether the archangel...