Word: ladens
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...Laden, the detainees claimed, did not always get his way. As early as mid-2000, he was so incensed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that he told Mohammed to go ahead with the mission right away. Twice more in 2001, bin Laden pushed in vain for the operation to start. In the end, he did assert ultimate authority in ordering the attacks, over the opposition of senior al-Qaeda officials and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who were worried that a direct attack on the U.S. would provoke a war with the U.S. or trouble with Pakistan...
...commission dispels the idea that bin Laden is worth as much as $300 million. Though he did collect $1 million a year in inheritance until he was cut off in 1994, he relied on fund raising to support al-Qaeda's $30 million annual budget. None of that money apparently came from the Saudi government or the wife of its ambassador to Washington, as has been previously alleged...
Dominick's supermarket pays Field Trip Factory up to $300,000 a year to fill the void. On a recent tour, second-graders from Universal School, a Muslim school in Bridgeview, Ill., learned how sugar-laden kids' cereals are placed on lower shelves. Li Schiavitti, 75, the store's star field-trip guide, advised them to reach instead for something healthier--like Toasted Oats, Dominick's house brand...
9/11 Commission The panel unveils new details about bin Laden's original plot: 10 planes and a nuclear target...
...report on Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11, Richard Corliss provided a good account of its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival [May 31]. But he incorrectly described the flights transporting members of the bin Laden family, who were Saudis, out of the country after 9/11. Corliss wrote that "in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, two dozen of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them." The film does not claim that these flights from the U.S. took place while others were grounded...