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...Dhabi A Royal Detained A brother of Abu Dhabi's ruler is being held after footage purportedly showing him torturing an Afghan merchant was leaked to ABC News. Sheik Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a real estate developer, is the first member of the emirate's ruling family to face a criminal investigation. The videotape prompted outrage among U.S. legislators and threatens to scuttle a civilian nuclear deal with the United Arab Emirates...
...there; the U.S. military, he told the informant, was killing many Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He talked about possibly traveling to Afghanistan to become a "martyr" and go to paradise. He added that he was interested in doing "something to America." (See pictures of the life of Osama bin Laden...
Remote Sir Bani Yas was once the private domain of Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and co-founder of the United Arab Emirates. He irrigated much of its barren landscape and created his very own wildlife reserve, initially for endangered regional species like the Arabian oryx and both mountain and sand gazelles, but later for many African animals, including giraffes, ostriches, elands, gemsboks, blackbucks and striped hyenas, all of which remain to this day. (See pictures of luxury private islands...
...surfacing. Topping the list? Pelosi, then the top Democrat on the intelligence committee the CIA says was briefed in September 2002 "on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed." Zubaydah, a deputy to Osama bin Laden, was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002, according to Justice Department documents. Pelosi says she was never informed that the tactics described to her that day were employed - just that they were under consideration. "We were told specifically that waterboarding was not being used," Pelosi said Thursday...
...state. But residents in the neighborhood fear that the vigilante squads will soon be back. Talibanization doesn't start with a military takeover. It happens when there is a Red Mosque in every city and citizens are afraid to stand up to its edicts. (See pictures of Osama Bin Laden...