Word: binning
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...difficult because a great many Saudis, including prominent members of the royal family like Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, may not want to. These are the sort of people who don't sip cardamom tea with delegations from the Council on Foreign Relations. Their influence is seen not only in the schools-which don't produce many employable workers, according to business leaders-but also in the streets, where local traditions are mistaken for Islamic law. "I don't mind that I'm not allowed to drive here," a Saudi woman with a valid American license told...
Iyman Faris March 2003 An Ohio truck driver, he was accused of training with Osama bin Laden and plotting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge Arrested after being named by captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Faris pleaded guilty in May 2003 and agreed to cooperate. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail...
...Coalition has timed raising its concerns to capitalize on Summers’ NBER gaffe. It’s terribly unfair to Harvard’s beleaguered president, but it makes some sense. Their final two demands, however, condemned the e-mail to my computer’s trash bin: “demanding that Harvard take steps to dismantle the final club system,” and, “the democratization of administrative decision-making...
...actions she committed during 2000—in the defense of a man not connected to 9/11 in any way—al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks were constantly brought up by the prosecutors. The trial occurred only two blocks from Ground Zero, and some of Osama bin Laden’s videos were shown to the jury. Playing on the post-9/11 fears of the jury is believed to have been one of the main reasons for Stewart’s conviction...
...Rashodi has plenty of company. While many Saudis soured on al-Qaeda after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...