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...operational commander Riduan Isamuddin, known as Hambali, met with Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a 21-year-old Cana-dian operative of al-Qaeda in southern Thailand. Hambali, who trained and fought in Afghanistan from 1987 to 1991, is a member of both the JI and al-Qaeda consultative councils. Ham-bali proposed to Jabarah?who was dispatched to the region by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, head of al-Qaeda's military committee?that the terror campaign evolve to bombing bars, nightclubs and restaurants frequented by Westerners...
...won’t the grill guy in the dining hall ever give me ham...
...with melody—but not powerful, ethereal, or even trippy melodies, as in earlier trance before the whole genre went to corporate hell. Rather, these are the sort of cumbersome, echo-laden melodies that typify modern film scores. In fact, the whooshing sound effects, smiley-face synths and ham-fisted guitars generate a condescending muck so leaden that they even render the album’s joyless and deflated grooves a pleasant distraction—no small achievement...
...lawyer. As unionists watch the Catholic population grow - threatening to erase their majority - it's dawned on some of them that the best way to fend off a united Ireland is to convince Catholics they are better off being governed in Belfast. The problem is, those efforts are often ham-fisted. "I think unionism hasn't adapted because it knows what it's against better than what it's for," said Susan McKay, author of Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People. Adams says the unionists are wrong about the spying, and wrong about the intentions of the I.R.A. Looking a little...
During the summer, she introduced a tapas menu—considerably expanding the food options available. Previously, hungry patrons had a choice of only one ham, cheese and pickle sandwich, the media noche...