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...director of the inspection team--officially, the U.N. Special Commission--has said those leftovers from before the Gulf War constitute a "marginal" threat. The real anxiety is over what Saddam, free of prying spies, has been brewing during the past four years. In August, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told CBS Evening News his country possessed no "nuclear or biological or chemical weapons." The CIA maintains Iraq's race to acquire a fresh supply of weapons has accelerated. The evidence it has presented so far is somewhat soft. Without inspectors on the ground, U.S. intelligence has been doing mostly...
...Leading Saudi investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, a leading advocate of strong U.S.-Saudi ties, challenged the FT report and said he was expanding his U.S. holdings. But other leading investors are urging disinvestment in response to threats against Saudi holdings in the U.S. And a follow-up FT report notes that fund managers suspect capital flight is underway, and expect it to have an impact on the dollar...
...that they are going quietly. Every morning, Aziz Ahmed, a Junior Artists Association official, scouts locations from his van. When he finds a production that does not employ junior artists, he works the phones, calling a threatening mob to the set. Ahmed, a burly 39-year-old, heckles producers, demanding a token quota of junior artists, even if it means the extras are "left outside the frame." Most producers comply, or just pay up, to get rid of him. Ahmed admits he has resorted to violence, but says he has no choice. "People say we are quarrelsome and abusive...
...Rafik Hariri after meeting President Bush at the White House. Hariri was the first of several Arab leaders to visit Washington. Bush is also hosting King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who recently postponed his own wedding because of the crisis. This week, Bush receives Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, the author of the recent Arab peace initiative. Believing Bush too biased in favor of Sharon, he turned down previous invitations. Abdullah resisted pressure from other Saudi officials to cancel this trip too, but his message will be just as blunt: The Middle East crisis...
...peace process in the summer of 2000 and the start of the latest intifadeh that September, the martyr wannabes started coming to Hamas--and they didn't require persuading. "We don't need to make a big effort, as we used to do in the past," Abdel Aziz Rantisi, one of Hamas' senior leaders, told TIME last week. The TV news does that work for them. "When you see the funerals, the killing of Palestinian civilians, the feelings inside the Palestinians become very strong," he explained...