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When police arrested Brooklyn, N.Y., busboy Abraham Abdallah in March, he had Forbes magazine's issue on the 400 richest people in America, plus Social Security numbers, credit-card numbers, bank-account information and mothers' maiden names of an A list of intended victims drawn from the issue, including Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart. Abdallah is accused of using websites, e-mail and off-line methods to try to steal the celebrities' identities and make off with millions in assets. One scheme that was caught in time: he allegedly sent an e-mail purporting to come from Siebel...
...Week. Similar to those other honors, it will go to the person who, for better or worse, has created the biggest splash during the previous seven days?whether it's by doing good, making headlines or just keeping us all entertained. Our initial winner is a baddy, Abraham Abdallah, the audacious busboy in New York City who allegedly managed to accumulate phony credit cards of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and countless other rich folks to pull off one of the simplest, yet most outrageous, frauds ever. The front of our book is now also filled with lively, amusing...
Person of the Week A LIBRARY CARD OPENS WORLDS From the Brooklyn Public Library, audacious busboy Abraham Abdallah cybertapped into bank and brokerage accounts of Oprah Winfrey, George Lucas and others, stealing untold amounts. Police said Abdallah accumulated 20,000 fake credit cards...
...increased U.S. military presence in Yemen--characterized by refueling stops, publicized visits by American military leaders and involvement in the country's land-mine-removal program--coincided with an increased interest in portraying the government of President Ali Abdallah Saleh as an emerging democracy on the Arabian Peninsula. This was highlighted by the planned visit of Hillary Clinton to the Yemeni-hosted Emerging Democracies Forum in June 1999 (a visit that was later cancelled, possibly due to security reasons...
...that would allow them to proclaim themselves the first army ever to have liberated Arab territory from Israeli control," says MacLeod. "But despite a potential conflict with Syria, Hezbollah's enjoying a surge of support throughout the Arab world - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdallah recently rushed to Beirut to meet with the movement's leaders, suggesting there's strong grassroots support for the guerrillas throughout the Middle East...