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BOSNIA The Illinois-based Benevolence International Foundation says it is a charity, but last week officials revealed that during raids in Sarajevo in March, police found evidence said to link the foundation and its head, Enaam Arnaout, right, to Osama bin Laden. Arnaout is being held in Chicago...
...Enaam Arnaout is not an especially rich man. Yet every time the Syrian-born director of the Benevolence International Foundation, an Islamic charity, visited Bosnian offices over the past few years he would withdraw the same sum from a local bank: $50,000 in neat notes, 10 times in two years, or up to half a million bucks since 2000. Then the money would disappear. "We have no idea where it went," Ivica Misic, head of Bosnia's antiterrorism commission told TIME. He has his suspicions, though. In a case now before a U.S. court, FBI investigators are arguing that...
...that a target is identified," Arnaout said, drug companies can begin to develop "safe and effective therapeutics" to combat inflammations. Such drugs could prevent neutrophils from being "turned on" and inflaming an injury by blocking receptor sites, he said...
...activated neutrophils then "walk across the epithelium into damaged cells," where they digest the useless tissue, Arnaout said...
This digestion of damaged tissue by neutrophils produces the familiar inflammation associated with many types of injuries, Arnaout said...