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Zubaydah said he attended a third meeting in Kandahar in 1998 with Turki, senior ISI agents and Taliban officials. There Turki promised, writes Posner, that "more Saudi aid would flow to the Taliban, and the Saudis would never ask for bin Laden's extradition, so long as al-Qaeda kept its long-standing promise to direct fundamentalism away from the kingdom." In Posner's stark judgment, the Saudis "effectively had [bin Laden] on their payroll since the start of the decade." Zubaydah told the interrogators that the Saudis regularly sent the funds through three royal-prince intermediaries he named...
...Pelin Turgut Orange Again France Télécom offered over $7 billion to buy the minority 13.7% share in its lucrative cell-phone unit Orange, less than three years after spinning off the stake. The state-owned group is eyeing the increasing cash flow at Orange - Europe's third-largest mobile-phone operator - as a way of whittling down debts of almost $55 billion...
Soon pill poppers in the U.S. will have some new options. The Food and Drug Administration approved Levitra last week as a treatment for impotence. The drug, from GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer, works pretty much as Viagra does, increasing blood flow to the penis and reducing muscle relaxation. Both pills begin working within 30 minutes (although some say Levitra works sooner), both last four to five hours, and both are effective nearly 70% of the time. They also share side effects, which include headaches, nasal stuffiness and stomach upset. But for those who consider a romantic dinner an important part...
Jackson's Makeover The old boy is freed from his confining oval, allowing his mane to flow into the border; his shoulders are bulked...
...North Korean leaders realize their economy is very sick, and they don't want it to die," says a Western diplomat in Seoul. Though Kim would not immediately get from the U.S. his full wish list?a security guarantee, diplomatic ties and an end to economic sanctions?aid would flow if he opened his nuclear programs to the invasive inspections that the U.S. and its allies demand...