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After the May 12 attacks, the House of Saud understood that it was under direct assault by an organization committed to its overthrow. Though bin Laden, a Saudi, long ago condemned the royal family for allowing U.S. troops on Saudi soil starting in 1990, his group had refrained from violence within the kingdom. Its reasons were clear to U.S. intelligence. Says a former Bush Administration official: "There were al-Qaeda agents in the kingdom that urged al-Qaeda not to strike in Saudi Arabia because they [the Saudis] might cut off the spigot" of funds flowing to the group...
...most hospitable ally for al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq remains Ansar al-Islam, the militant group of Afghan-trained fighters that was based in northern Iraq before the war; hundreds of Ansar members fled to Iran after a U.S.-led assault on their base in March. Since then, says a security chief in Kurdistan named Khasraw, the Ansar fighters have returned to Iraq and established cells in Fallujah and Baghdad, with the aim to "attack U.S. interests everywhere on orders from outside, namely al-Qaeda." U.S. agencies believe that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative and senior...
Harvard reached more of the balls sent over the tops of defenders and escalated its assault on goal...
...after the Bolsheviks overthrew the tsar in 1917, the Soviets initiated a rapid assault on the Russian Orthodox Church...
...students, not only for the heaviest drinkers, but also for all college students—including those that abstain. Research has shown that students who do not binge drink experience many “secondhand effects” from the binge drinking behavior of other students, such as physical assault, unwanted sexual advances, vandalized property and interruptions of sleep or study...