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Taher Chemirik, 51, is one of those fashion-world secrets whispered from one chic ear to another for years before the rest of us catch on. But in the past six months, word of the Algerian-born jeweler's signature bold style has leaked out. Now in-the-know editors and jewelry fanatics alike are sporting his large link necklaces, wide cuffs and diamond-cut wooden rings. Bottega Veneta's Thomas Maier describes Chemirik as having "great talent and design integrity," while retailer Janet Brown says that "clients who buy Taher end up collecting...
...workers as regulars of fundamentalist mosques, acquaintances of suspected radicals, or travelers to such Islamist hot spots as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. One employee had attended a terror training camp in Yemen, according to the intelligence report, while a second worker maintained ties to the leader of an Algerian jihadist group and a third had contact with shoe-bomber Richard Reid...
...face of it, Abu Doha would appear to be the sort of case for which the U.S. offshore detention system was created. The 40-year-old Algerian militant is alleged by counter-terror officials to be a Qaeda-aligned terror kingpin and suspected of involvement in a number of plots around the world, including the "Millennium Bomb" plot aimed at Los Angeles International airport in 2000. Yet, as things stand, Abu Doha looks set to be freed from prison in Britain and deported on immigration violations, after the U.S dropped its bid to extradite him over the LAX plot...
...DIED. Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Oscar-nominated Italian director; in Rome. A resistance leader in World War II, Pontecorvo's war experiences informed his 1965 masterwork The Battle of Algiers, which depicted the brutal reality of the 1950s Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. While the documentary-style film won three Oscar nominations and the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, French authorities-outraged by its depiction of torture by French troops-banned it until...
...Zawahiri devoted a substantial portion of the anniversary tape to praising al-Qaeda's "blessed union" with the radical Algerian Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) and singled France out as its target. Zawahiri pledged the new partnership would become "a bone in the throats of the American and French crusaders," and urged supporters to target Arab states - including Algeria - that have battled terrorism alongside Washington, London, and Paris. "Crush the pillars of the crusader alliance" Zawahiri intoned, "and strike fear in the hearts of the traitors and apostate sons of France...