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...American staff were among the 12 wounded. In the ensuing shootout with embassy guards and Saudi security forces, Al Juhaini and three other militants were killed and one was captured. The raid constituted the first major Islamic terrorist attack in Jidda, long considered more tolerant than the Kingdom's Wahhabi heartland. Still more disturbing were Al Juhaini's past ties with the authorities, suggesting that residual sympathy for al-Qaeda may exist among elements of the Saudi regime. Al Juhaini, 28, was a former member of the Saudi religious police, the ubiquitous squad that enforces public dress codes and other...
...Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom came out when I was in sixth grade, and it was one of my earliest CD purchases. Simultaneously an addictive pop album and an interesting if not terribly coherent concept piece, it still pops up in my playlist from time to time...
...Rhodes Scholarship allows each recipient to study for two years at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, for free. Eleven are earmarked for Canada each year...
...Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins deserted his post in South Korea and fled to the communist North?a move he now calls "the stupidest thing I have ever done." He spent nearly four decades inside the Hermit Kingdom, as a lingering mystery of the cold war. In July, Pyongyang finally let Jenkins leave. He turned himself in to the U.S. Army in Japan and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He left prison two weeks ago. In this special Time report, Jenkins, who has seen things in secretive North Korea that only a few Westerners have experienced, tells...
...long a time or seen so much inside what may be the world's most despotic, secretive and brutal society has escaped to tell the tale. While a steady stream of Korean defectors, as well as escapees from its prison camps, has talked of the horrors of the Hermit Kingdom, Jenkins is the first to provide a detailed view of this little-known land from the perspective of an outsider who became intimately familiar with its perverse inner workings...