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According to a former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is in Beirut with the children from her first marriage and her grandchildren. Saddam and Samira are rumored to have had a son named Ali, but the family butler says there is no such person. (Saddam does have a nephew named Ali.) The young man mistakenly known on the Baghdad street as Ali, according to the butler, is actually Samira's grandson Saif, 20. The butler and the former secretary claim that the marriage contract between Saddam and Samira specified that she not bear him any children...
TIME has been told that the source for the tip that al-Qaeda leaders are attempting to mount another multi-pronged airline hijacking attack is Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, aka "Abu Bakr," an al-Qaeda field commander who surrendered to Saudi authorities June...
...tensions would bolster support for radical Islamists, who boycotted the previous election in 1997. In last month's poll, the Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats in the 110-member assembly, which holds little real power. Disputed Death IRAN Government sources played down a statement by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi that the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was the result of a beating during police interrogation. Montreal-based Kazemi was arrested in Tehran on June 23 while taking pictures at an antigovernment protest and died in hospital 19 days later from a brain hemorrhage. A presidential commission...
...highest ranking Al Qaeda figure taken down in the Saudi offensive is Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, aka "Abu Bakr," al-Qaeda field commander for Saudi Arabia and al-Dandani's boss. Al-Ghamdi surrendered June 26 in exchange for his wife's freedom...
...being cornered by police in a mosque, authorities said. His death came a week after another suspect, Ali Abd al-Rahman as-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, gave himself up. Media Blackout ALGERIA The government banned press coverage of the release of two Islamic leaders and, in an attempt to impose a media blackout, ordered foreign journalists to leave the country. Freed are Abassi Madani, leader of the now banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), and his second-in-command, Ali Belhadj, who were given 12-year sentences in 1992. Mosque Murders PAKISTAN The army took control of the southwestern city of Quetta...