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...ninth floor of the Seef Tower in Manama, the small, opulent capital of Bahrain, the Noriba Bank offers its well-heeled clientele a wide range of financial services, from portfolio management to leasing. From its offices you can see the city's famous Al Fateh mosque. The proximity is significant, because even though Noriba, which opened in September, is wholly owned by Switzerland's largest bank, UBS Group, it is the only Western bank in the Gulf that insists that all of its services adhere to the strict letter of Islamic law, known as Shari'a. Compliance is neither easy...
...case in point: The February trial of Fateh Kamel, a 40-year-old Algerian with Canadian citizenship, provided further evidence of the discrete patterns of the terror networks. Kamel had been arrested on a charge of "association with wrong-doers in relation with a terrorist enterprise," for his involvement in the "gang of Roubaix" - a group of young men whose criminal behavior had been considered anti-social rather than political...
...killed by a bomb while repairing Israel's border fence with Gaza. By week's end, the Israeli army had launched seven incursions into Palestinian-held territory, including a missile attack on a car in the West Bank that killed a policeman and an activist in Yasser Arafat's Fateh movement. An assault on Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City also injured at least 20 people. The attacks on Palestinian targets were in apparent retaliation for the bombing that killed the Romanian workers. More than 100,000 migrant workers live in Israel, many of them filling jobs vacated by Palestinians...
...Algeria renowned for indiscriminate and barbarous acts of violence in their quest to turn the country into an Islamic republic. But Washington wants to know very badly whether Ressam is a free-lancing foot soldier for bin Laden. The leader of Ressam's French cell has been identified as Fateh Kamel, thirtyish, an Algerian-born naturalized Canadian who later set up shop in Montreal to gather money and materiel but was arrested last April in Jordan and then extradited to France. Another member of the group, said French authorities, was Said Atmani, an Algerian zealot who may have roomed with...
DIED. NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN, 48, mesmerizing singer who brought the mystical music of the Sufis of northern India and Pakistan to a global stage, becoming one of the superstars of world music; after suffering cardiac arrest during a trip to Britain to seek medical treatment for chronic liver and weight problems; in London. For 600 years, Khan's family had been singers in the qawwali tradition, a style that built layer upon layer of increasingly intense music that demanded ferocious vocal control and culminated in whirling peaks of ecstasy. Khan not only revived qawwali's popularity in his native...