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...least six people outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad on June 2. The attack was believed to be linked to the recent decision by Danish newspapers to reprint a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad that had ignited worldwide protests when it first appeared in 2005. In March, Osama bin Laden warned of "severe" retaliation for reprinting the cartoon. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but Danish authorities pointed to al-Qaeda...
...Mohammed, who wore a full gray and black beard, turban, white robes and owlish horn-rimmed glasses, was clearly the leader of the five, seated at the front of the courtroom alongside his defense lawyers. Throughout the morning session, he conversed animatedly with his fellow defendants, Mohammad bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, seated in a row behind him with their own lawyers. (Only Binalshibh was shackled.) The men spoke in Arabic among themselves, at times joking and appearing to coordinate strategy. Mohammed frequently conversed with bin Attash, seated directly behind him, who then appeared...
...enemy in Iraq, he said, even behind closed doors. In the teeth of the facts, they ignore that the enemy we're fighting in Iraq is a half a dozen homegrown insurgencies, an incipient civil war, and criminal gangs. They ignore the fact that although a handful of Osama bin Laden's followers showed up in Iraq after the invasion, in a futile attempt to hijack the Sunni resistance, al-Qaeda is not the main enemy in that country...
...wealth already amassed in these bounteous days for energy exporters should provide a cushion for years to come. Amid this euphoria, few seem to fret about the other seemingly glaring risk to the Gulf - the possibility that property speculation in cities like Dubai might lead to a bust. Mohamed Bin Ali Alabbar, chairman of Emaar, the region's leading property developer, says Dubai still has plenty of room to grow as a services center for the Gulf and its 200 million people: "The region is expanding, Dubai is too small, and so more needs to be done...
...Ahmadinejad obsession "increases the prestige" of a relatively powerless loudmouth for domestic political gain. Linking Obama to the world's most famous anti-Semite certainly doesn't hurt McCain among Jewish retirees in Florida, a swing state. In any case, don't be surprised if Ahmadinejad pulls a bin Laden and "denounces" McCain just before the election this year...