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...DIED. RACHID ABOU TOURAB, leader of the Armed Islamic Group (gia), which was formed after the Algerian military canceled 1992 legislative elections to prevent an Islamic fundamentalist party from winning; in Tamezguida Forest, Algiers. Upon being made leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency...
...World Trade Center, on live TV, could not have been better timed to detonate like a fireball in the hearts of millions. Now bin Laden was cannily, politically using the mass media for a spin strike aimed at the world's billion Muslims. On Tuesday, his lieutenant Sleiman Abou-Gheith followed with an appeal to Arab unity and the promise of a further "storm of airplanes" against America...
...reeked of a giant hoax. Come on, now! The Mrs. Multi-Millionaire winner was certainly the least attractive--so we looked carefully for the signs of tampering. Sure enough, she just "happened" to be from the same area of California as her husband, also roller-bladed, and eagerly gushed abou her love for golf (he, suspiciously enough, developed golf courses in the area). Most conspicuous was his lascivious romantic whispering in her ear right after she was crowned winner and the kiss which wasn't the least bit awkward. Did these two know each other...
Sponsor and organizer Hoda Abou-Jamra, of the International Student Center at Northeastern University, said that she had encountered many obstacles in trying to gather support for the event...
...differences in the past ruin the opportunities for the future," Abou-Jamra said. "In a sense you can say that we're stuck together. We might as well work for the best...