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...National Bank of Georgia from Bert Lance, President Carter's onetime budget chief, and later sold it to First American. Last month Morgenthau moved against Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, who headed the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia. Still another enormously rich Saudi remains under investigation: Abdul Raouf Khalil, a shareholder in both B.C.C.I. and First American. The barrage of charges against these prominent Saudis poses a sticky problem for the Bush Administration, one that threatens to uncover an embarrassing pattern of legal and illegal intelligence operations as well as arms and money transactions involving Arab states, Israel...
...current probe of Saudi Abdul Raouf Khalil, investigators have complained that when Khalil was first sought by Federal Reserve examiners, the State Department claimed that he either didn't exist or couldn't be found. Knowing that Khalil was a high Saudi intelligence offical and the current liaison to the CIA the investigators advised the Riyadh embassy to "look for him down the hall in the CIA station chief's office." Khalil was quickly located and served with a subpoena...
Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore were standing in a hall of Thomas Jefferson High School, not far from the mayor's security detail. Another student, named Khalil Sumpter, who is 15, allegedly pulled out a .38-cal. revolver and shot Tyrone and Ian at point-blank range. Sumpter had apparently had fistfights with the other boys for weeks. All three had arrest records for robbery and mugging...
...dead bodies of Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore, as well as the unsalvageable life of young Khalil Sumpter, the 15-year-old "gunman," testify to the fact that ghetto violence and ghetto frustrations are no longer confined to the streets. No longer can we assume that kids leave their problems at the wire fence entrance to the schoolhouse...
Driving Saddam's hardware is the most lethal software. He is a master of 20th century totalitarianism. In Republic of Fear, reissued last year by Pantheon, Samir al-Khalil argues that Saddam's political forebears include not just Adolf Hitler -- the precedent George Bush likes to stress -- but Joseph Stalin as well. A corollary to the cult of personality is the principle that everyone but the leader is expendable. In addition to ensuring obedience, terror reminds the followers that they are cannon fodder in the struggle ("the mother of battles," as Saddam would have it) against all who oppose Numero...