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...harshest critics in the media and on Capitol Hill have sought to portray the kingdom's rulers as intimately involved with al-Qaeda terrorism, although some of the evidence offered to support these claims is far from convincing - the suggestion that Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington sent money to 9/11 hijackers, for example, turns out to be based on a charitable check she wrote to a woman who, unbeknownst to the princess, had signed it over to a man who made brief loan to two of the hijackers without knowing their terrorist identities. Yet three...
...hubbub began when congressional investigators leaked word that prominent Saudis--including Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.--may have given money to associates of two 9/11 hijackers. The connection was tenuous but intriguing. Sources close to the case told TIME that beginning in January 1999 monthly payments of $2,000 were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to Majida Dwaikat, wife of Osama Bassnan. A Saudi national, Bassnan was living in San Diego last year and has been linked to Omar al Bayoumi, a Saudi student who befriended two men who wound...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Was: U.S. ambassador to Honduras Role: Overlooked human-rights abuses there Now: Ambassador...
DIED. ABBA EBAN, 87, charismatic Israeli founding father whose skillful diplomacy and eloquent oratory helped build international support for Israel; near Tel Aviv. As ambassador to the U.N. and Washington and then as Israel's longest-serving Foreign Minister, Eban helped persuade the U.N. to approve the 1948 creation of the state and fervently defended Israel's aggressive actions in the pivotal 1967 war. Though he could be glib--he liked to say Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"--Eban was resolutely dovish, advocating an early land-for-peace deal. More popular with Jews abroad than with...
...That network ties in not only JI but also groups once considered to be, no matter how dangerous, simply local insurgencies. In the late '90s through the middle of 2001, JI engaged in several terrorist acts, including the bombing of the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia in August 2000; a spate of church bombings across the Indonesian archipelago in late 2000; and a series of bombings in Manila in December 2000. There was a method to all this madness. The assassination attempt on the Philippine ambassador was a "thank you" from JI to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for providing...