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...realized that Arab tempers were getting out of control when an Egyptian friend told me that her mother-a cultured, well-traveled, sweet-natured grandmother-throws her shoes at the television set whenever President Bush comes on the screen. Forget whether the coalition is winning the military conflict against Saddam Hussein. After less than two weeks of fighting, the public relations war for Arab hearts and minds may already be lost...
...following Operation Enduring Freedom, which has been unable thus far to bring Osama bin Laden to book for September 11, Arabs are treated to prime-time coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As they see it, there are too many operations and not enough freedom. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak predicted this week that the war could produce not simply another Bin Laden...
They had finished an intimate dinner at the Ritz Hotel, and Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian-born multimillionaire, and Princess Diana were on their way to his opulent 10-room apartment overlooking the Champs-Elysees. But the couple never made it to Fayed's place. At 12:23 a.m. the speeding Mercedes in which Diana, 36, and Fayed were riding crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel on the right bank of the Seine River. Fayed and the intoxicated driver died at the scene. Diana was declared dead at 4 a.m. at Paris' Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital...
...military leaders in Baghdad; Administration officials told TIME that the intelligence was gleaned from multiple sources, including electronic eavesdropping and reports from a single Iraqi official who had recently turned on Saddam. A senior Jordanian official says tips were also passed to the U.S. by a Jordanian diplomat and Egyptian intelligence agents, who claimed they had identified Saddam's exact location. For days, a senior White House aide says, the CIA had been conducting an all-sources operation to try to track Saddam's movements. On Wednesday they hit pay dirt. According to the aide, at least one CIA source...
...1980s and to have forged there the ideological and personal links that have sustained al-Qaeda's strain of terrorism ever since. Of the most wanted Islamic terrorists still at large, very few--they include bin Laden, his chief ideologist Ayman al-Zawahiri and Saif al-Adel, a former Egyptian army officer who is thought to be al-Qaeda's head of security--are older than Mohammed. Increasingly, the foot soldiers of international terrorism are too young to have taken part in the Afghan war. That doesn't mean that they are any less brutal. They include members of Algerian...