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...When al-Qahtani got off his plane in Orlando in August 2001, he was refused entry to the U.S., deported, and captured in Afghanistan only a few months after 9/11 - as Osama bin Laden fled his mountain sanctuary at Tora Bora. Al-Qahtani was then brought to Guantanamo where, according to the Pentagon, he admitted that he had been sent to the U.S. by Khaled Sheik Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks, and that he had met Osama bin Laden on several occasions. Al-Qahtani also confirmed that he had received terrorist instruction at two al-Qaeda training camps...
...rgen Pinter. "Suddenly the police came in and didn't let us leave on the night before the competition. This happened without any positive results from doping control. It's crazy." Agovino defends his actions. "Athletes are obliged to respect the law like everyone else," he says. Mayer, meanwhile, fled the area and was later taken into custody across the border in Austria after crashing his car into a police roadblock. While denying allegations that he was involved in doping, Mayer checked into the psychiatric ward of an Austrian hospital, and told a local magazine that he was trying...
...that the assailant reportedly approached the students, showed them a black handgun, demanded money, and collected the students’ wallets. A Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) advisory e-mail sent to the campus yesterday reported that “the offender then punched one of the victims and fled.” Estrada said that after the incident, the students fled toward the soccer field across from Harvard Stadium, and then called the police. According to Estrada, the students described the assailant as six feet tall, approximately 180 pounds, and around 20 years old. The HUPD advisory added that...
Many of the restaurant’s customers fled before finishing their food—or in some cases, before paying...
RETURNED. SAM RAINSY, 56, outspoken Cambodian opposition leader; to his home country; ending a year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders...