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...Arab street is rumbling. for weeks, protesters across the Middle East burned Israeli and American flags and brandished banners in support of the Palestinians. Satellite channels broadcast reports on Palestinian suffering, as well as talk shows on which guests vent their rage. But the Arabs are not only shooting off their mouths. From bases in southern Lebanon, Hizballah and Palestinian guerrillas stepped up rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli targets. A band of Egyptian teenagers even tried to sneak into Israel, saying they wanted to join the battle. Whenever the Israeli-Palestinian dispute erupts in crisis, as in Israel...
LEBANON Bin Laden Tapes Two Middle East television stations broadcast videotapes showing Osama bin Laden. Both tapes were compilations of film apparently made in December, together with narration, graphics and footage of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The first tape, shown on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera station, included film of Ahmed Al Haznawi, identified as one of the hijackers, reading out his will. On the second tape, televised by the Middle East Broadcast Corp., bin Laden described the hijackers as "our brothers, the martyrs," called the attacks the "blessed operations" and boasted that they cost...
...specific reference was a threat to banks in the Northeastern U.S. And the notion of attacking banks was bolstered, says an official, by "cryptic references to banks" gleaned by U.S. intelligence from separate, highly sensitive sources focused on Al Qaeda networks. Also, on Wednesday, April 17, the Middle East Broadcast Corp. broadcast a new videotape of Osama Bin Laden in which he gloated over the damage done to the U.S. stock market and economy by the September 11 attacks...
...Kirch, who began his career in 1956 by borrowing DM 25,000 from his wife's family to buy the rights to Federico Fellini's La Strada. By the end, Kirch had amassed a film library of 15,000 titles, the largest outside Hollywood. He also owned the broadcast rights to World Cup soccer and a majority of the company that controls Formula One. KirchMedia held a controlling stake in ProSiebenSat.1 Media, one of Germany's two commercial television networks...
...immediate concern of many ordinary Germans was what effect the Kirch bankruptcy would have on Germany's soccer league. This season's remaining payment of $87 million appeared safe, but Kirch holds broadcast rights until 2004, for which it must pay a further $783 million. Hartmann, the creditors' spokesman, said a "significant contribution" from sports teams was necessary to rescue the company, meaning they could expect substantially reduced payments in the future. Small soccer clubs immediately stopped contract negotiations with players for next season since a reduction in salaries now seems unavoidable. Until Kirch emerges from insolvency in the next...