Word: adels
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...Afghanistan in the 1980s and to have forged there the ideological and personal links that have sustained al-Qaeda's strain of terrorism ever since. Of the most wanted Islamic terrorists still at large, very few--they include bin Laden, his chief ideologist Ayman al-Zawahiri and Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian army officer who is thought to be al-Qaeda's head of security--are older than Mohammed. Increasingly, the foot soldiers of international terrorism are too young to have taken part in the Afghan war. That doesn't mean that they are any less brutal. They include...
...firm said Riyadh helped fund the ads with a loan to the alliance, which was later repaid by a council representing Saudi business interests. But the source tells TIME most of the "repayments" came from businesses controlled by or close to the Saudi government and were solicited by Adel al-Jubeir, foreign-policy adviser to the Crown Prince and architect of the Saudi p.r. offensive. A Saudi embassy spokesman added that some of the funding came from three Arab-American interest groups. But officials of two of these groups said they had given nothing to the ad campaign...
...houses in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people and wounding some 200 others. The movie houses were filled because of the Islamic 'Id al-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan's fasting. Authorities suggested al-Qaeda might be to blame. SAUDI ARABIA Getting Tough Foreign affairs adviser Adel al-Jubeir announced a series of measures to prevent Saudi charities from inadvertently funding terrorists. The new measures, such as money-laundering filters and auditing the accounts of Islamic charities, follow U.S. criticism that Saudi authorities were not doing enough to stem the flow of funds to radical groups. BURUNDI...
...Adel al-Jubeir struck a slight, plaintive figure as he stood before a crowded Washington press conference this week to plead for understanding. "We believe that our country has been unfairly maligned," the balding, soft-spoken man told the assembled reporters. "We believe that we have been subjected to criticism that we do not deserve." For his role serving as chief spin-doctor for the Saudi government at a time when it's fighting a PR battle to convince America of its bona fides as an anti-terror ally amid a relentless torrent of skepticism, Adel al-Jubeir...
...political campaign, with issue ads, town-hall meetings, focus groups and overnight polling. The goal: to improve the image of the Saudis in the U.S. Only 32% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Saudi Arabia, down from 60% during the Gulf War. The point man for the campaign, Adel al-Jubeir, a top aide to Crown Prince Abdullah, says that after Sept. 11, "we discovered Americans don't know us. So we decided to explain ourselves to them...