Word: abdullah
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...Osama bin Laden's extended family onboard, headed for Saudi Arabia. The FBI had warned them it was not safe to stay in the U.S. Many Americans were probably surprised to learn that relatives of bin Laden had been living in the U.S. for years, that his brother Abdullah practiced law in Boston, that his nephew Faisal was at the University of New Hampshire. But this family has little in common with their notorious relation. They are an economic dynasty, created by a self-made man. Osama has been the family's shame, as if some renegade Rockefeller decided...
Things could get dicey for young King Abdullah, Jordan's inexperienced ruler. Islamic hard-liners already have a presence in the Jordanian parliament, entirely apart from the healthy grass-roots presence they enjoy in the country as a whole. Jordan, whose population is 65% Palestinian by birth or descent, experienced street demonstrations during the recent fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. If the U.S. broadens the scope of its upcoming military action and decides to tackle Iraq or Lebanon as well, Abdullah could see plenty of anger in his streets. Containing the unrest will be essential if he hopes...
...distance from the deteriorating situation, the needs of the antiterrorism coalition have made Arafat's and Sharon's dilemmas Washington's, too. In his first meeting with an Arab head of state since the September 11 attacks, President Bush received a strong pledge of support from Jordan's King Abdullah, but also a passionate plea for Washington to do more to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Arab allies on whom the U.S. will rely heavily in the intelligence war on Bin laden face strong domestic resistance against working too closely with the U.S. - because of the perception among...
...King Abdel Aziz University in Jidda, bin Laden, according to associates, was greatly influenced by one of his teachers, Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian who was a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has played a large role in the resurgence of Islamic religiosity. Bin Laden, who like most Saudis is a member of the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam, had been pious from childhood, but his encounter with Azzam seemed to deepen his faith. What's more, through Azzam he became steeped not in the then popular ideology of pan-Arabism, which stresses the unity...
...first, bin Laden mainly raised money, especially among rich Gulf Arabs, for the Afghan rebels, the mujahedin. He also brought in some of the family bulldozers and was once famously using one to dig a trench when a Soviet helicopter strafed him but missed. In the early 1980s, Abdullah Azzam founded the Maktab al Khidmat, which later morphed into an organization called al-Qaeda (the base). It provided logistical help and channeled foreign assistance to the mujahedin. Bin Laden joined his old teacher and became the group's chief financier and a major recruiter of the so-called Arab Afghans...