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...tribunal idea question why these cases cannot be brought and won in regular federal courts. When the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993, federal prosecutors convicted the bombers, including mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, in a regular federal court in Manhattan. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who plotted to blow up the United Nations and New York City-area bridges and tunnels, was also convicted in a regular federal court...
...companion Ziad Al Jarrah as the 20th hijacker in the September 11 terror attacks. Binalshibh had registered at the Florida Flight Training Center, attended by Jarrah but was denied a visa because the State Department feared a poor Yemeni would remain in the U.S. illegally. (Atta, a middle class Egyptian with a good command of English, had no problem obtaining visas, nor did the other hijackers - 15 Saudis, two UAE citizens and one Lebanese...
...cyclist, took the ceremonial throne in 1999 under a five-year rotation system when he was elected by secret ballot among the sultans of Malaysia's nine states. Salahuddin married four times, lastly exchanging controversial vows with a 19-year-old. DIED. MOHAMED IBRAHIM KAMEL, 74, the former Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign in a period of a year, disagreeing with President Anwar Sadat's policies. DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, founder...
...rebels were killed. Police in Malaysia later nabbed Misuari, who has been stripped of his powers EGYPT Military Trial Ninety-four alleged Islamic extremists denied charges of plotting to overthrow the state at the opening of their trial in a military court near Cairo. Several of the mainly Egyptian defendants protested their innocence from a cage in the courtroom. Most of them were arrested in May on charges of collecting donations for the Palestinian uprising and for Chechnya, but more serious charges were added later. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Money Talks An E.U. delegation persuaded President Joseph Kabila to resume...
...Germany 25% of planned trips to the U.S. were canceled for the seven weeks to Nov. 1. Reservations in Egyptian hotels are down by as much as 60% compared with the same period last year. And after Sept. 11, bookings for package tours to Israel declined 75%. So where are vacationers going instead...