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...three al-Qaeda terrorist cells are still operating in Saudi Arabia despite a frenetic investigation and at least 11 arrests since the May 12 Riyadh bombing, a senior official close to the dragnet tells TIME. But a new spirit of cooperation between the two countries has developed since the attack, and the bitter U.S./Saudi recriminations that followed the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and continued after 9/11 appear to be over...
...work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Castro's ire at the growing popularity of Paya seems a key impetus for the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. But Castro has apparently decided that arresting Paya, who last year won the European Union's Sakharov Award for human rights, would attract the kind of attention Castro doesn't want. Paya told TIME last week he fears he could still...
...have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. One who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Paya's growing popularity may have triggered the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. Paya himself, who last year won the E.U.'s Sakharov Award for human rights, remains free, at least for now. "I'm waiting for the knock on the door any moment now," he told TIME last week. - By Tim Padgett
...question is, Can anyone get the money back? Kuwait has tried for years. After allied troops expelled the Iraqis from Kuwait in 1991, the country launched a global dragnet to attach Iraqi assets. But little was ever recovered beyond $16 billion in reparations garnisheed from the proceeds of Iraq's official U.N. oil sales. As Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suggested last week in testimony before Congress, any money that is found might also be used to defray the billions of dollars in costs the U.S. will incur if it invades Iraq. "There's a lot of money out there...
...security booth, only to find a large photograph of the actor Alec Baldwin, with the words, “Do not ID!” emblazoned across the bottom. The security guard on duty also confided to us that Ethan Embry, co-star of the recently revived television show Dragnet, had paid for a special VIP pass that allowed him special treatment. I suppose, with his new sideburns, he was sick of being mistaken for the poor man’s Luke Perry...