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...that failed, they say, he started experimenting with chemical warfare, perhaps even testing a device. Then, in 1995, a truck bombing of a military base in Riyadh killed five Americans and two Indians. Linking bin Laden to the attack, the U.S.--along with the Saudis--pressured the Sudanese to expel him. To his dismay, they...
...widespread anti-American feeling in the Arab and Muslim world today. It hasn't always been this way. The 1991 Gulf War was fought on the basis of a wide-ranging consensus between Western and Arab regimes. Soldiers from Arab armies fought side-by-side with the U.S. to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait. And it was that consensus that also laid the basis for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But the ongoing U.S.-led sanctions and periodic bombing of Iraq, and the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has frayed the Gulf War consensus...
...Having come under the influence of radical Egyptian Islamists in Afghanistan, Bin Laden found himself in conflict with the pro-Western regime in his native Saudi Arabia. The Gulf War proved to be his breaking point with the Saudi royal family. Driven by a desire to expel the U.S. from the Gulf region and overthrow a royal family he denounced as corrupt apostates, he turned his fire increasingly against America. The World Trade Center bombers may have been motivated by similar concerns - and they may have been inspired by some of the same militant teachings of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman...
...second possibility that particularly concerns many pro-life advocates, who argue that life begins at conception, or, technically, the moment of fertilization. Others, however - including some pro-lifers - argue that without implantation, there is no pregnancy. After all, over the course of a lifetime, a woman could naturally expel tens or even hundreds of fertilized eggs that simply didn't latch onto her uterus...
...does say that if the protestors persist in turning the situation into a power struggle in which they have "basically declared war" on the University, the consequences could be grave. In a battle of power, Harvard could kick the students out of Mass. Hall and possibly expel them from the school...