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...trust of the Saudi King, Abdel Aziz ibn Saud, who reigned from 1932 to 1953. The King asked bin Laden to rebuild the sacred city of Mecca, and ever since, the bin Ladens have been responsible for construction in Mecca and Medina. After Mohammed's death in a plane crash in 1967, his sons built Saudi BinLaden Group into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Recent ventures include building a freeway around Riyadh, expanding King Khaled Airport and constructing a base for U.S. troops. According to the Wall Street Journal, the family has invested $2 million in an investment fund...
...unrequited love affairs: “But I cling to you for survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily punctuated guitar work embraces a delayed lead guitar line; double kick drumming outlines a simple but conspicuously slow tempo, and the crash symbol weaves the disparate strands together. These are all acceptable punk ingredients—or, in the wrong hands, a recipe for nausea. Unfortunately, the latter is the case here. Our first reaction (the gag reflex): Isn’t Blink 182 a bit young to have a tribute band...
...Although the cause of the crash remains to be determined, U.S. officials have reportedly suggested that the Tupolev TU-154 that went down off Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula may have been hit by a surface-to-air missile accidentally fired by a Ukrainian air defense battery during a military training exercise being held nearby...
There was the unspeakable death toll in New York and by then the estimates of hundreds more in the Pentagon crash. The former President recalls being profoundly worried about the possibility of an assault on the President, not only because it was his son but because his long years in and around the presidency and the CIA made him especially aware of the importance of the presidential office at a time of crisis. He counseled his son to return to Washington as soon as possible, as soon as the Secret Service was satisfied there would be no follow-up attack...
...tried to catch an airplane in Atlanta—or use electricity in California, or drive on a highway anywhere—knows, we have not invested enough. The slowing economy has taken some strain off of the nation’s physical plant, but before the stock market crash it had been stretched to its breaking point...