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Goss ordered the review amid concerns that sloppy procedures contributed to the recent disclosure that nearly three years ago, CIA operatives in Milan snatched Egyptian terrorist-suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and flew him to Cairo--where the Islamic cleric claims he was tortured; to throw the Italians off the scent, the CIA reportedly told them that Nasr had fled to the Balkans. The Italian government publicly denies the U.S. insistence that the CIA cleared the caper with Rome's intelligence service in advance, and this summer an Italian court issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives allegedly involved. Milan...
...practicing physician, el-Erian, 51, joined the group after Israel's defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War helped spur a revival of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world. He was among thousands of activists rounded up at about the time a Muslim extremist assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After a year in prison, el-Erian won a seat in parliament in 1987, serving three years before being jailed again...
...York City It's no wonder this city, with average overnight stays priced at $222, never sleeps. But at Times Square's Hotel QT, guests enjoy Egyptian-cotton sheets, a pool with an underwater sound system and rooms that start...
...generator ran out of oil, the pirates accused the crew of hoarding it. One Somali fired a shot through the window on the bridge. "We thought this trip was the end of our lives," remembered able seaman Rashid Juma Mwatuga, 42. In late September the Ibn Batuta, an Egyptian ship carrying cement, appeared on the horizon. "The pirates told me they were going to hijack this passing ship," says Mahalingam. "What could I do?" The pirates jumped into their speedboats. Half an hour later the Egyptian ship's captain radioed the Semlow to say that he had been captured...
...inmates: Mohammed Salameh, who is serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Salameh is also linked to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up the United Nations and several other New York landmarks. Rahman is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri. But what could be the connection between Salameh/Rahman and Al Hayat...