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INDIA Back from the Brink in the Kashmir Conflict India lifted its five-month ban on pakistani commercial aircraft flying through its airspace and ordered its five battleships back to port from the Arabian Sea. In a further effort to reduce tensions with its nuclear armed neighbor, India resumed diplomatic relations by selecting its new High Commissioner to Pakistan. While these moves coincided with the arrival in the region of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Indian officials said they came in response to indications that terrorist infiltration into Indian-administered Kashmir had slowed or stopped in the past two weeks...
...That plot, of course, had nothing to do with Jose Padilla, or his notorious alter ego, Abdullah al-Mujahir. It concerned three Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda operatives recently relocated to Morocco, who had planned to use a rubber dinghy packed with explosives to attack U.S. Navy vessels passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. The reason you're probably only faintly aware, if aware at all, of the foiled Morocco plot is that the U.S. media has been dominated this week by a mug-shot of former Chicago gangbanger Padilla, and talk of "dirty bombs...
...Baffert saw something in War Emblem that Reineman didn't--a nasty competitor begging to get loose on a big track. So did Prince Ahmed bin Salman, an American-educated, Saudi Arabian stable owner who had charged Baffert with finding him a Derby runner, and the two hoped their hunch would pay off. Did it ever. War Emblem won the Derby in style, going off as a 20-to-1 shot and leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert...
...KNOWLEDGE BAZAAR A veritable souk of information about the formerly isolated sultanate, this site offers succinct rundowns of Omani history and culture as well as tantalizing virtual tours. Click on the recommended reading list, where you can buy explorer Wilfred Thesiger's 1950s epic Arabian Sands...
...Arabian nights, arabian days (destinationoman.com...