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...Founded in 1996 by Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, the fledgling news channel quickly became famous among locals, and infamous among the regimes of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al-Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming...
...brigands in the Sulu islands?who specialized in running drugs and guns, kidnapping and growing marijuana?accepted Janjalani as their chief. Abu Sayyaf's increasing notoriety attracted the notice of fellow comrades-in-arms from the Afghan war. Bin Laden's brother-in-law and trusted aide, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, set up the Al-Maktum university in Zamboanga, a 30-minute boat ride from Basilan island...
...airliners flying out of the Philippines. Plagued throughout his terrorist career by clumsiness, Yousef managed to set fire to his apartment just a week before the Pontiff's arrival, and police found timing devices, 12 fake passports and a business card belonging to bin Laden's brother-in-law, Khalifa. There is no evidence, local police sources say, linking Abu Sayyaf to these failed terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, Abu Sayyaf claimed credit for the June 1995 bombing of a Tokyo-bound Philippine Airlines flight, which police believe was a dry run for Yousef's plan to down U.S. aircraft...
...hopeless. "We are unable to accept Abdul Majid as a credible and reliable witness," they ruled. For his contradictory and unconvincing performance on the stand, they rejected Giaka's testimony linking the Libyan defendants to the bombing; as a direct result, one of the two accused, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, walked free...
...ABDEL BASSET ALI AL-MEGRAHI, former head of Libyan aviation security, of the murder of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; by a Scottish tribunal in the Netherlands. Al-Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison. His co-defendant, LAMEN KHALIFA FHIMAH, was acquitted owing to insufficient evidence...