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...body of Yousif Salih Fahad al-Ayeeri, an al-Qaeda strategist and fund raiser known as Swift Sword, who was shot as he fled a patrol on May 31. He was carrying a letter with a signature that the Saudis authenticated as Osama bin Laden's. An al-Qaeda activist in detention told the Saudis he took the letter into Saudi Arabia in February...
...without being fully covered. According to a Western intelligence report, the Saudis are spending about $1 million a year in Tanzania to build new mosques and buy influence with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party. "We get our funds from Yemen and Saudi Arabia," says Mohammed Madi, a fundamentalist activist. "Officially the money is used to buy medicine, but in reality the money is given to us to support our work and buy guns...
...video] sexual assault is sandwiched between so many other topics that I don’t think it can really change anyone’s mind-set,” said Alicia C. Johnson ’04, a board member of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) activist group...
...respond by cutting the budget, which will translate into slashing public-sector jobs like teachers and nurses. These jobs are held mostly by women, which helps explain female hostility to the euro. "We would give away the power over our economy," says Zaida Catalán, a Green Party activist who was talking down the euro at Stockholm's Central Station last week. "Monetary union will lead to worse conditions in the workplace." It's difficult to fight against the politics of fear, but the yes side has raised the stakes in the debate by hinting Sweden faces a bleak...
...year partnership with the architect William Russell dissolved, Adjaye formed his own practice in 2000. He now has a staff of more than two dozen working on projects not only in Britain but in the U.S. as well. Last year the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a Boston-based activist clergyman, commissioned Adjaye to design an arts-and-media charter school in Dorchester, Mass...