Word: binning
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...Djibouti, home to a U.S. base. As TIME reported earlier this year As TIME reported earlier this year, the Courts also sent fighters to Lebanon in the summer to help Hizbollah fight Israel, and in return received weapons from Syria and Iran. The Courts even won backing from Osama bin Laden, who urged foreign jihadis to flock to Somalia to open up a third front in the war against America - a call the U.N. reported had been answered by hundreds of Pakistanis, Yemenis, Syrians, Libyans and Chechens...
...Somali government and the warlords that operate under its umbrella on the banner of fighting al-Qaeda, the Islamists have allegedly rallied financial and military support from such quarters as Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria and Iran by painting themselves as victims of an Islamophobic Western conspiracy. And Osama bin Laden certainly helped Ethiopia and the Somali government make their case for U.S. support when, in October, he warned Western governments to stay out of Somalia...
...Osama bin Laden at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. And you thought Mohammed Khatami was offensive! Maybe big OBL holds the key to world peace. Maybe not. Either way, this should be easy on Harvard’s wallet: we’re fairly certain that Mitt Romney won’t balk at providing state police "security" for this guest speaker...
...this compulsively readable, deeply unnerving book, Wright traces the rise of Islamic terrorism from the Egyptian polemicist Sayyid Qutb to the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood to Osama bin Laden. Enter John O'Neill, the FBI counterterrorism chief who connected the dots of al-Qaeda's plot and tried in vain to warn his bosses right up to the day he died--Sept...
...source close to the Saudi family says a variety of factors played into Turki's surprising departure - both personality differences, but also genuine differences of opinion inside the monarchy over how to deal with Iran's growing threat in the region. This advisor said that Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the current national security adviser and former longtime Saudi ambassador in Washington, as well as his father (who is also defense minister) Prince Sultan, and others in the so-called Sudeiri branch of the royal family have long favored cautious, but somewhat more aggressive methods to deal with Iran than...