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...steel, gold, white gold and platinum. It is sheathed in the same leather used in Rolls Royces, and the face is scratch-proof sapphire. Ruby bearings under each keypad ensure precise key press. But while everyday mobiles are getting tinier by the moment, Vertu recalls an earlier, bulkier era. Kuwaiti fashion mogul Sheik Majed al-Sabah stopped carrying his, complaining of its weight. Before you put a Vertu on your Christmas list, check Santa's bank balance: prices go all the way up to €24,000 for the platinum model. In functional terms, that sum gets you one unique...
...chilling account of the meeting in Thailand was given by one of those present, Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah, a 20-year-old Kuwaiti-born Canadian citizen, who was arrested in Oman in April and is now being interrogated at an undisclosed location in the U.S. According to sources familiar with an FBI report of Jabarah's interrogation, details of his testimony?including the dramatic order by Hambali to target bars and nightclubs?were passed on by U.S. officials to all Southeast Asian governments in August, a full two months before the Bali attack...
...have a Western appearance," might try to destroy key rail bridges, derail trains or target hazardous-material containers. What prompted the unusually specific warning? Intelligence sources tell TIME it came as a result of the attack by two gunmen who killed one U.S. Marine and wounded another on a Kuwaiti island on Oct. 8. Kuwaiti authorities who afterward raided an al-Qaeda cell believed to be supporting the gunmen found a computer hard drive with photos of American passenger and cargo trains as well as rail crossings. At about the same time, senior al-Qaeda operatives in custody told their...
...tanker off the Yemen coast, killing a Bulgarian crew member, was the work of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. The blast closely resembled al-Qaeda's October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. Two days after the tanker blast, members of a Kuwaiti terrorist cell that had "pledged allegiance" to bin Laden staged an apparent suicide ambush on U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka. After killing one service member, the Kuwaitis were shot to death by U.S. forces. The attackers had reportedly trained in terror camps in Afghanistan. Arab officials say that...
...improvement in weaponry traces back to what did not go right the last time U.S. warplanes attacked Iraq. In 1991 clouds and smoke coming from Kuwaiti oil fields set ablaze by Saddam's troops forced many U.S. warplanes to return to their bases without dropping their ordnance because their laser-guidance systems could not see through the foul air. In a handwritten note he fired off to his weapons designers shortly after that conflict, Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill McPeak said, "We need to lay down a requirement for an all-WX PGM"--an all-weather precision-guided...