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...radical networks of Bin Laden or the allied Al Jihad, there may have been other reasons for the signs of stress he exhibited on his final visit to Cairo. But his father concurs that Atta was homesick. "He expressed to his mother that he wanted to return home," El Emir recalls of his son's last visit to Cairo. "He was homesick and said that he had had enough of living abroad...
...This hazy request (or was it a warning?) came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. As is so often the case when First Amendment expectations collide with wartime diplomacy, the parameters of "acceptable censorship" seem to depend entirely upon personal perception. In this case, anyway, Powell's entreaty does not appear to have crossed any serious lines of protocol...
...Founded in 1996 by Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, the fledgling news channel quickly became famous among locals, and infamous among the regimes of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al-Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming...
...much bother Washington, except when U.S. interests are perceived to be at immediate risk. In 1998, during a flare-up in tension between Iraq and the U.S., the Pentagon balked at story lines critical of American foreign policy. Washington's complaints went unheeded three years ago, and today, Emir Hamad remains defiant. "Whenever we hear from our friends (on the topic of Al-Jazeera), we consider this as a friendly advice and we listen to the friends and their advice," he told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. "But the issue here is the program that has been put together...
...Emir General Osama Bin Laden...