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Some of bin Laden's money is in mainstream institutions--the Saudis froze his assets after the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, though he may have money in Switzerland, England and numerous other countries--but al-Qaeda also makes heavy use of hawala, an informal Islamic banking network that has operated for generations in Asia and the Middle East. Hawala, Hindi for "in trust," links brokers around the world who advance funds to depositors on a handshake and, sometimes, a password. In remote areas, a broker may have little more than a rug and a phone. In larger cities...
...made it all the way outside, and started looking for his wife. Then he heard what sounded like a train barreling toward him. It was, in fact, the sound of 110 floors collapsing on top of one another. "I just started running. And after about half a block, I froze." Having lost his shoes in the wreckage, he bundled his feet in towels bound with duct tape and started to look for Adianes again. But the collapsing buildings pushed him farther and farther away...
Explorers' reputations are notoriously volatile things. But no one has had quite the ups and downs of Robert Falcon Scott, the British naval officer who lost the race to the South Pole in 1911 and froze to death on his way home...
Rice's unilateralist tone irritates G.O.P. moderates. She froze Russia out for the first three months of the Administration, pushed a tougher public line on China, and questioned both current talks with North Korea and a previous agreement. That approach is worlds apart from the style of Scowcroft and the President's dad. "One of his father's great skills was reaching out to other people," says a senior Republican statesman. Bush Sr. speaks often with his son but is careful not to appear to push him to the center...
...They froze the parliament in place before his resignation become effective. The British government suspended the legislature, and when it unsuspended it, it was able to reinstall Trimble as First Minister. Britain handled it in such a way that it was able to step him back into...