Word: abdallah
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...long war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. After Soviet troops invaded the country in 1979, Muslims flocked to join the local mujahedin in fighting them. In Peshawar, Pakistan, which acted as the effective headquarters of the resistance, a group whose spiritual leader was a Palestinian academic called Abdallah Azzam established a service organization to provide logistics and religious instruction to the fighters. The operation came to be known as al-Qaeda al-Sulbah-the "solid base." Much of its financing came from bin Laden, an acolyte of Azzam's who was one of the many heirs to a huge...
...Abdallah Schleifer, director of the Adham Center for television journalism at the American University in Cairo, credits bin Laden's canny, opportunistic broadening of his message. Instead of emphasizing his desire for a medieval-style caliphate under Islamic law--which discomfits many moderate Arabs--bin Laden crooned a greatest-hits medley of deeply ingrained Arab grievances--the death of thousands of Iraqi children under U.N. sanctions; U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, home of Muslim holy cities; the partition of Arab lands by Europe after World War I; and that ultimate red-meat issue, Israel. "The original bin Laden motif...
That seems to be enough for the Yemenis. "Osama bin Laden prepared, financed and perpetrated the Cole attack," says Abd al-Karim al-Iryani, Yemen's Prime Minister at the time of the attack and now a senior adviser to Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salih. But that is not quite enough for the Americans. The FBI and other U.S. officials say they still don't have the evidence to prove their case in a U.S. court, and that all goes back to not being able to conduct an American-style investigation. And even though the Yemenis have suspects...
...That seems to be enough for the Yemenis. "Osama bin Laden prepared, financed and perpetrated the Cole attack," says Abd al-Karim al-Iryani, Yemen's Prime Minister at the time of the attack and now a senior adviser to Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salih. But that is not quite enough for the Americans. The FBI and other U.S. officials say they still don't have the evidence to prove their case in a U.S. court, and that all goes back to not being able to conduct an American-style investigation. And even though the Yemenis have suspects...
...Abdallah's high-profile arrest brought national attention to identity theft, which the FBI says is the nation's fastest-growing white-collar crime. An estimated 500,000 Americans have their identities stolen each year. A sign of the times: at least four insurance companies now offer ID-theft policies. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, which works with victims, says it takes an average victim of identity theft two years to clear his credit rating. A growing worst-case scenario: "criminal-identity theft," in which thieves use the stolen identity when they are arrested, leaving their victims with a criminal record...