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...Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the BBC. After Hussain got into some fights at his racially divided school, he went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping the teen would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times and last December went to an Islamic school near Lahore along with other young Muslims from Leeds, intending to stay nine months. He returned after three months to work...
...regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the bbc After he got into some fights at his racially divided school, Hussain went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping he would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times and last December went to an Islamic school near Lahore along with other young Muslims from Leeds, intending to stay nine months. He returned after three months...
...custody who may be bin Laden's No. 3 and is believed to have directed al-Qaeda's cells in London, told his interrogators about a plot to attack London's transport system in May that was later aborted, according to Pakistani investigators. British officials are trying to gain access to Zeeshan Siddique, a British national arrested with a false passport in May 2005 in the frontier town of Peshawar; he eventually confessed he was part of a plot to bomb pubs, restaurants and rail stations in Britain. Siddique wrote a cryptic note saying one of his comrades told...
...balance sheet on the Holy See's some €200 million annual operating budget, which accounts for the Roman Curia, Vatican diplomatic missions and media outlets. With the sale of several palazzos in Italy and an overall appreciation in real estate value, the Vatican closed with a net gain of €24.9 million on real estate in 2004. But Church officials know that economic gains are at the mercy of the Lord. With the bill on Pope John Paul II's mammoth funeral pending, noted Sergio Cardinal Sebastiani, chairman of the Holy See's economic affairs department, the Vatican might...
...G.O.P. opponents may have another gambit up their sleeve. To gain a surer vote on abortion and other hot-button conservative issues, they are proposing that Bush appoint John Cornyn, a conservative Texas Senator and former judge, to the court instead of Gonzales--and fill Cornyn's Senate seat with Representative Henry Bonilla, a Mexican American, in an effort to appeal to Latinos who back Gonzales. The battle will only grow more complicated if Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires, as he reportedly is planning to do, and opens up yet another court vacancy...