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...would like nothing better than to shoot down another symbol of the American occupation. This one would be a particular prize: as the head of the U.S. military's Central Command, Abizaid is the Pentagon's man in the Middle East, responsible for everything from the hunt for Osama bin Laden to the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan to making sure al-Qaeda is not able to regroup anywhere else in the poor, lawless areas that make up much of the troubled turf he oversees...
...film details, in Moore's usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamp on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that two days after Sept. 11, 2001, the President had a chummy White House visit with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come; and that in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded...
...should have been a simple matter of Clinton's telling the CIA director to find bin Laden and shoot the so-and-so. But government officials got caught up in legalities. That's what happens when lawyers monkey around with policy. TERRY REDFEAR Greensboro...
...Miramax camp scoffs at that claim, pointing out that Disney's radio arm has no compunction about distributing fire-breathing conservative Sean Hannity's show. The film has been described as an incendiary attack on the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabian oil money and the Osama bin Laden clan. But a source who has seen the picture tells TIME that the Bush-Saudi elements make up only about 15 minutes of the roughly 110-minute film...
Investment tycoon, liberal reformer, world's fourth richest person--Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a man of many kaffiyehs, and he's adding another: advertiser. In April, Kingdom Holding Co., the $21 billion investment firm that Alwaleed runs, started advertising itself on CNN and CNBC and in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and other media. The ads highlight Kingdom's stakes in a dozen megafirms, such as Citigroup, PepsiCo, News Corp. and Four Seasons Hotels, and include the tag line "Reaching out through global investments." To some, it sounded as if the U.S.-educated prince was trying...