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Tenet and his briefers informed Cheney and President Bush of the intercepted communications. Then they went to see Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan. Bandar greeted the delegation arriving at his palatial home in northern Virginia, Tenet and his small band of deputies. They hugged. Tenet is a hugger. He and Bandar have passed countless hours together, trust building, a Tenet specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...Mohammed bin Nayef, who runs the country's interior department for his father - the imperious, religious Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the country's chief of interior and intelligence matters. Operators of the Middle East desk at NSC made calls to mid-rung Saudi officials. Bob Jordan, the U.S. ambassador, was asked by the State Department and White House to talk directly to contacts in Riyadh. The United States didn't know the time or the place - but al-Qaeda's Saudi army was gathering. There was another, companion message. A message of pressing U.S. interest: Find al-Ayeri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...optimistic? Maybe so, given India's stop-and-start efforts to open up its once-socialist economy, where for decades domestic manufacturers were so sheltered from competition by tariffs and a restrictive licensing regime that one of the best-selling cars was the Ambassador, a rattletrap sedan first manufactured by Hindustan Motors in 1957 and still sold today. Due to years of underinvestment, much of India's manufacturing base is just as outmoded as the Ambassador, and many of the problems that have kept investors at bay red tape, corruption, outmoded transport links and unreliable electrical power remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drive to Compete | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...soggy" boys who drift without engaging. They're given plenty of chances to find something that gets their juices flowing. More than 200 visitors came to speak last year at events organized by the students. "It feels quite natural for a 17-year-old to invite the Japanese ambassador to speak, and for him to say yes," says Little. (That happened in May.) One parent says what she likes best about Eton is that her son is "on his own, but not alone." There are no enforced study periods. Boys are expected to manage their own busy lives. They live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind of Elite | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has repeatedly emphasized the importance of drawing in nationalist Sunni insurgent groups to achieving a workable consensus in Iraq. The flip side of that equation, as Khalilzad has also made clear, is that the Shi'ite militias must be brought under government control. Maliki has signaled that he plans to achieve this by integrating the militias into the national security force. But the Sunnis, backed by the U.S., insist that existing militias must not simply be turned into units of the national security forces - their fighters must be dispersed across the existing security forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Bush's Visit: Maliki on a Tightrope | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

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