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...bought the National Bank of Georgia from Bert Lance, President Carter's onetime budget chief, and later sold it to First American. Last month Morgenthau moved against Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, who headed the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. Still another enormously rich Saudi remains under investigation: Abdul Raouf Khalil, a shareholder in both B.C.C.I. and First American. The barrage of charges against these prominent Saudis poses a sticky problem for the Bush Administration, one that threatens to uncover an embarrassing pattern of legal and illegal intelligence operations as well as arms and money transactions involving Arab states, Israel...
...occupied territories, a view held by the vast majority of Israeli Arabs -- who simultaneously say they would not live there. Beyond that, the Islamic Movement, like its counterparts elsewhere, supports the idea of a Muslim regime eventually ruling the entire Middle East -- including Israel and its Jewish majority. Says Abdul-Rahman Hashem, deputy mayor of Umm el-Fahm, an Arab town in Israel's north: "As long as we are using legal means...
...effective since 1960, was originally intended to deter Communist insurgency. Tunku Abdul Rahman, prime minister at the time of Malaysia's formation, pledged that "the immense powers given to the government under the ISA would never be used to stifle legitimate opposition and silence lawful dissent," according to Asia Watch...
...effort started to pick up in August, when British journalist John McCarthy was released. He was carrying a message from Islamic Jihad: if Israel would release more than 300 Arab detainees, including Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Shi'ite Muslim cleric kidnapped by Israeli commandos in 1989, the group would be willing to free its remaining captives. Using Picco as a go-between, the two sides began exchanging information about the condition of their prisoners...
Israel is worried that it has not completed the deal yet, but is willing to trade almost 300 Lebanese prisoners, along with kidnapped Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, a Hizballah cleric, for one possible Israeli survivor, air force Captain Ron Arad, and the remains of five other servicemen...