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...enough to just have a Ferrari.' ABDULLAH AL-MANNAEI, resident of Abu Dhabi, on Arab businessmen who spend millions on single-digit license plates...
...become widespread in France. In Germany, where local governments have been free to levy tuition fees since 2005, federal and local governments have earmarked some $3 billion to promote excellence in research at selected universities through to 2011. Others spy money-spinning opportunities abroad. At the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, opened in late 2006, students are carefully selected for entry and required to pay $20,000 each year for tuition. Despite France's reforms, the Paris-Sorbonne University - the Gulf school's publicly owned parent - is forbidden to do either back home...
...Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad denied any responsibility in the attack. But Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, described Dawyyat's killing spree as "a natural reaction to Israeli crimes against Palestinians...
...documenting the expenditure of €40,000 on food, motor boats and vans, and even cell-phone cards. "I think it was Umar Patek who was doing the group's accounts," says Sabban. ICG terror expert Collier thinks Patek is more than just a terrorist bean counter. "He commands Abu Sayyaf Group forces and he can be seen as an ASG commander in his own right," Collier says, "as well as a JI freelancer. Dulmatin and Patek are both still in communication with allies in Indonesia, and there have been attempts over the last few years to smuggle suicide bombers...
...about Noordin's location. One is that he is living in central Java "under JI's enforced protection on the condition of non-activity, spending most of his time reading downloads from the Internet." The other theory, Jones says, is based on claims by the recently arrested JI commander Abu Husna that Noordin had been helped to escape to Malaysia. Indonesian police sources tell TIME the chances that Noordin has escaped from Indonesia are very slight. "Why? He's got very good networks here," says a former officer with the country's counterterrorism unit, Detachment 88, who asked...