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...first, bin Laden mainly raised money, especially among rich Gulf Arabs, for the Afghan rebels, the mujahedin. He also brought in some of the family bulldozers and was once famously using one to dig a trench when a Soviet helicopter strafed him but missed. In the early 1980s, Abdullah Azzam founded the Maktab al Khidmat, which later morphed into an organization called al-Qaeda (the base). It provided logistical help and channeled foreign assistance to the mujahedin. Bin Laden joined his old teacher and became the group's chief financier and a major recruiter of the so-called Arab Afghans...
...reform agenda and are determined to preserve the business-politics relationships the Prime Minister has sworn to destroy. They are waiting to pounce: at the first sign of vulnerability, they will surely come after Koizumi as they did with previous reform-minded Premiers. "They've been waiting years to dig up some scandal on Koizumi," says his longtime aide, Isao Iijima. "But there is no scandal. So they'll have to come after us on ideas, but you know what? They don't have...
...used as fill within the enclosure wall, however, as well as a partial inscription on the wall detailing the regulation of animals brought to the sanctuary, suggests that sacrifices were common. A radar sounding within the oval confirmed that it too is littered with architectural debris, and a preliminary dig turned up the remains of a collapsed structure with huge inscriptions. "The letters are half a meter high, so they could be read from the ground like a billboard," says Glanzman. "We also expect to find lots of platforms for altars and statues...
...gloom sink of previous albums. Perhaps one of the biggest changes is the arrival of Hawkman, a big voiced raggaman who takes up many of the vocals that might have otherwise fallen to Tricky, and delivers himself brilliantly, particularly on the sneakily beautiful “Diss Never (Dig Up We History...
...still conducted by people. Thousands of (mostly) men in suits, men waving slips of paper and shouting at what they like to call the Big Board, and the place they commute to in downtown New York is still a post-apocalyptic crime scene, still a place where rescue workers dig for miracles with masks over their noses and mouths. Not yet a place to go to work; not yet a place to begin trading on a tragedy that robbed New York?s financial-services salarymen of thousands of their closest friends...