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...have had friends in strange places. In January the Wall Street Journal published an astonishing tale. Journal reporters in Kabul purchased a secondhand computer whose hard drive contained thousands of files written by al-Qaeda members. One file was a detailed account of the travels last summer of "Abdul Ra'uff," who flew from the Netherlands to Israel, Egypt and Turkey scouting locations for terrorist attacks. Abdul Ra'uff's itinerary matched one known to have been taken at the same time by Reid. FBI analysts now firmly believe that Reid and Ra'uff are the same man. Moreover...
...black London. The Brixton mosque has a reputation for homeyness. Each morning children stream into the mosque's schools, brought by mothers in head scarves or veils. The mosque doesn't ask many questions about a believer's past. When you come to Islam, says the mosque's chairman, Abdul Haqq Baker, you make a fresh start. Each Friday 400 to 500 worshippers attend prayers, the majority of them black Britons...
...position unimpeachable. But partly at the prodding of nervous Arab allies, the U.S. has begun to look for ways to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Last week the State Department latched onto a tentative offer made by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud for the Arabs to grant Israel a full peace if the Israelis withdraw from all territory seized in the 1967 war. An Arab diplomat says the initiative "puts Sharon in a corner...[and] it signals to the U.S. government, 'If you get engaged, there are important friends...
Soon after, investigators arrested two Pakistani brothers, Abdul Hannan and Abdul Mannan, in Rawalpindi. One of them allegedly contacted Saeed more than two dozen times on his mobile phone after Pearl was kidnapped. Both are activists with the banned terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad. Saeed has long maintained close ties with Jaish and its precursors: his 1994 kidnappings were aimed at freeing Masood Azhar, who was then imprisoned in India and went on to found the group two years...
...walk down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas from Chinese hawker stands and your hips swaying to the rhythms of the latest Bollywood hits as you pass Little India. For a brief respite, duck into the scented world of Sheik Abdul Hamid Bin Hassan Badjenid's perfume shop?run by three generations of Yemenite traders?where you can buy tiny bottles of pure frankincense oil for $160 apiece...