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America’s predilection for lousy ambassadors also has serious practical consequences. The Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, like any other ambassador, is charged with managing America’s trade relationships, maintaining strong ties with the government, and coordinating responses to terrorist threats. And contrary to popular myth, these are not duties that can, or should, be undertaken by lower level, if more experienced, bureaucrats in the embassy. When prime ministers, journalists and police chiefs communicate with an American embassy they want to speak to the person in charge because they know that only one person is directly accountable...
...Tuesday evening, it was war in Dahab. Three terrorist bombs exploded on a promenade on either side of Tota, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens of others. Tota itself was spared, but Tota bartender Mohammed Yassin found himself saving lives instead of serving liquor. "I heard the explosions and ran outside," Yassin, 29. told TIME. "People were bleeding. I carried some of them to a taxi so they could get to the hospital." Twelve hours later, as detectives scoured the scene for evidence, Yassin shrugged in disbelief."This is a place where we feel the world...
...Egyptian investigators are looking into possible links between Monday night's mayhem and two other major terrorist attacks on the Sinai Peninsula's Red Sea coast in the past 18 months. Fifteen Egyptians are currently on trial for the October 2004 attack on a hotel in Taba that killed 34 and a blitz last July in Sharm El Sheikh, the Sinai's premier resort, that left at least 64 dead. Egyptian officials believe that the accused operated an Islamic extremist cell in the Sinai, calling itself Tawheed and Jihad and relying on sympathetic local Bedouin for logistical support...
...Madrid, Dahab. It could happen anywhere." Then she took a piece of chalk and scribbled a message in big letters on Tota's blackboard menu facing the promenade. "Stop Violence Everywhere," it said. "Stop All War." It's a new, less celebratory slogan for Tota. But after three successive terrorist attacks in what ought to be one of the most tranquil places on earth, it seems grimly appropriate...
...SENTENCED. Ali Sufian al-Ammari, 28, and 12 other Islamic radicals, to jail terms ranging from 18 months to seven years; for planning to bomb U.S. targets and kidnap American citizens in Yemen; in Sana'a. The terrorist cell, whose members were arrested in June 2005, was alleged to have stockpiled explosives and weapons and surveyed restaurants and hotels used by Americans in the Yemeni capital. The cell's alleged leader, al-Ammari, received the heaviest sentence for his role in founding and training the group...