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...economic and social war" on his people and "collective punishment" for Wednesday's Tel Aviv bombing by Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...
...Dhabi court convicted 12 former top executives of the collapsed Bank of Credit & Commerce International on criminal charges of fraud and mismanagement in one of the world's largest financial scandals. The three key defendants, though, were convicted in absentia: Agha Hassan Abedi, the B.C.C.I. founder; Mohamed Saleh Naqvi, the empire's former chief executive; and Ziauddin Ali Akbar, the bank's former treasurer. The court also ordered the group of 12 to pay $9.13 billion in restitution to Abu Dhabi's government and ruling family, which held a 77.4% stake in B.C.C.I...
...what makes a cult a cult is not its techniques, per se, but the deception used in recruitments and the exploitation that follows, for example, the extremely high "fees" for "courses" given by these groups. A book called Combating Cult Mind Control by Steve Hassan (himself a former member of a cult) is widely available in bookstores and is an excellent primer on the methods and dangers of destructive cults, including a checklist of what constitutes a cult (TM fits the category...
...Egypt Mubarak calls the so-called Afghani veterans the main terrorist threat to the stability of his government. One of the two assailants killed in the attempt last month on the life of Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi was a veteran of the Afghan war, as were others implicated in previous attacks on government officials. Montasser al-Zayat, a Cairo lawyer who represents many of the militants arrested in the past two years, claims that 20,000 Egyptians fought alongside the mujahedin. The government's experts put the figure closer to 2,500 and say that as many as half...
...image of a mighty army of trained and dedicated fanatics in their quest for local political power. The truth is that the Arab governments of the Middle East would be under siege without any centrally directed threat or terrorists returning home from the Afghan wars. Revivalists like Sudan's Hassan al-Turabi can exploit Arab discontent, but they have not been able to coordinate or direct the small, secretive cells that plot violent subversion against local governments...