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...early last week al-Faruq finally broke down. On Sept. 9, according to a secret CIA summary of the interview, al-Faruq confessed that he was, in fact, al-Qaeda's senior representative in Southeast Asia. Then came an even more shocking confession: according to the CIA document, al-Faruq said two senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to "plan large-scale attacks against U.S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, [the] Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia. In particular," the document continues, "[al-]Faruq prepared a plan to conduct simultaneous car/truck...
Even more surprising, a U.S. warplane has never fallen into Iraqi hands because of a mechanical snafu. There's only one acknowledged instance in which a U.S. warplane lost power over Iraq and had to limp to safety. It happened on Nov. 10, 1997, when an oil line broke on Captain Erik Pettyjohn's F-16 while he was 30 miles inside northern Iraq. "I had visions of being a guest of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad," Pettyjohn told TIME last week. He saw himself being paraded through the Iraqi capital in manacles while his family watched the scene...
...Haider has always regarded his far-right Freedom Party as a kind of personal possession. It's natural, then, that he should have triggered its near demise. In a dizzying two weeks, the self-styled puppet master of Austrian politics split with his party's top government ministers, broke up the ruling coalition, announced his intention to seek a return to the leadership in early elections expected in November - and then abruptly changed his mind. Appearing last week on Austrian TV, Haider claimed he had been approached and threatened outside a restaurant in Klagenfurt. Invoking the name of murdered Dutch...
...Nobody broke the rules,” says current HRC President Brian C. Grech ’03. “They kind of pushed the line of how far you can go to run for president...
...bagpiper and drummer from Charlestown came into the ballroom playing celebratory music, Galluccio broke the bad news to his supporters...