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Ahmed Omar Abu Ali says he survived torture in a Saudi prison. Now the 23-year-old American, indicted on questionable charges of involvement in an alleged al-Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush, faces another tough challenge: the puzzling vagaries of post-9/11 U.S. justice. The...
And so could any student, like Abu Ali, who attended the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (I.S.A.) in northern Virginia while growing up. The eldest of five children, Abu Ali was born in Houston in 1981, but by the time he was 3, his family had settled in suburban Virginia, a...
What may have changed his dreams were the years Abu Ali spent at I.S.A., a school set up by the Saudi government in 1984 for children of its diplomats and eventually open to Muslims of all nationalities. The school insists it does not teach intolerance, but many of the religious...
The question is, How much of the country do Talabani and the Kurds want to reshape? The Kurds are holding out for at least six Cabinet posts, including head of the crucial Oil Ministry. They also say they are owed money from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program. A...
It is difficult because a great many Saudis, including prominent members of the royal family like Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, may not want to. These are the sort of people who don't sip cardamom tea with delegations from the Council on Foreign Relations. Their influence is...