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...Canada, Latin America and anywhere else where German speakers are desperate for a dose of Deutsch. - By William Boston End Of The Road General Motors agreed to pay Fiat €1.55 billion to terminate a "put" option that could have forced GM to acquire the Italian firm's debt-laden auto division. The companies also unwound some of the their joint-venture agreements. Four days later, Fiat ousted Herbert Demel, its car unit...
...Osama Bin Laden win last week's elections in his native Saudi Arabia, the first ever held in the Kingdom? Not quite - but the al-Qaeda leader's sympathizers should be more than satisfied with the results of 38 municipal contests held Thursday, the first round in a series of three such elections around the country. Islamic conservatives outpolled nearly 650 other candidates - including contenders with powerful tribal links and businessmen who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars - for all seven seats up for grabs on the Riyadh city council. They were better organized, emphasizing their technocratic skills while having...
...contrast, Suleiman Rashodi, a winning fundamentalist candidate backed by Al Awdah, exulted in the outcome. "My friend, this is an Islamic country," he told Time. "Liberals are far from our society. They are like the West." Rashodi calls bin Laden "a good Muslim," though he says he disagrees with his global jihad...
...Rashodi has plenty of company. While many Saudis soured on al-Qaeda after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...
...giving women the right to drive cars, earning him a torrent of warnings about Judgment Day from Islamist hardliners. Conservative candidates stressed their credentials as technocrats, but energized supporters with appeals on Islamist websites and open backing from Islamist diehards like Sheikh Salman al Awdah, a onetime Bin Laden ally who argues ?there is no place for secularism in the Muslim world...