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...Qaeda. Many bin Laden watchers and even ex-associates have observed that bin Laden appears to be a simple fighter without a brilliant head for tactics. His lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who heads the Egyptian al Jihad, which took credit for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, is often mentioned as the brains behind the operations. U.S. federal prosecutors have asserted in court filings that al Jihad "effectively merged" with al-Qaeda in 1998. Mohamed Atef, al-Qaeda's military commander, is also a powerful figure. He is said to be a former Egyptian...
...Anwar thinks it should. At a crowded refugee camp in a mosque not far from Bukit Indah, the 30-year-old farmer lifts his shirt to reveal thick, track-like scars, the remnants of wounds he says he received last summer when soldiers, assigned to defend ExxonMobil employees and property, whipped him nightly for a month with ropes of barbed wire. He was also burned with cigarettes and beaten unconscious with a wooden board. They did not kill him, but he wishes they had. Then he would not have had to watch the soldiers shoot his brother in the head...
...Anwar says part of his ordeal took place inside the gates of ExxonMobil's Cluster IV gas field. He says he was dragged, kicking and screaming, past men wearing white uniforms and ExxonMobil hard hats?the company's private security guards. He doesn't know why he was tortured and claims to have no opinion about the Free Aceh Movement (gam), a rebel army fighting for independence from Indonesia. He doesn't want any money from ExxonMobil. But he doesn't have much good to say about the company either. "I hate Exxon," he says, "they have no heart...
...Although he is blind, Erik Weihenmayer has shown us he has a clearer vision of human potential than most sighted people." ANWAR SURAHMAN Bogor, Indonesia...
...fraught with danger. If figures like Daim and Khalil are in trouble, other politicians in Kuala Lumpur can't help but feel nervous. That's surely the case with Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Three previous Deputy Prime Ministers have fallen by the wayside, including his imprisoned predecessor Anwar Ibrahim. And now, with the Prime Minister apparently renewing contacts with perennial contender Razaleigh Hamzah, the last thing Abdullah needs is to get caught in the middle of a political earthquake. "Mahathir had better make sure that while he's trimming the deadwood he doesn't saw off the branch...