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...Qaeda, for its part, appears determined to exploit such philosophical differences. In bin Laden's TV address that coincided with the launch of the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan, the plight of the Palestinians suddenly emerged as the centerpiece of al Qaeda's propaganda effort. And in a nimble preemptive strike on Qatar's al Jazeera TV network on Friday, Bin Laden's Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, insisted that U.S. support for Israel had been the "main engine" behind the September 11 attacks. He also slammed the Bush administration's decision, announced earlier this week, to deny Palestinian leader...
...most bizarre media moment of the week was not Washington's tapping as its propaganda chief an advertising executive famous for selling Head and Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's rice. No, that distinction would surely go to reports that Chilean businessman Eduardo Mateluna plans to launch a line of soaps and air fresheners called, simply, "Osama." Explained Mateluna, who has previously marketed wines named after General Augusto Pinochet, "It's a name that people already know...
Sophomore Kate Nadeau is the former team record holder in the 200-yard butterfly, and will be looking to launch an aquatic assault on Chock’s butterfly team records, as well as on the rest of the Ivy League...
...admissions log, he discovered that it was not a young male combatant wounded in Afghanistan's civil war. Instead, typical meant civilian and female. Three years later--relying mostly on private donors in Italy, including the pro soccer team Inter Milan--Strada had rounded up enough financial support to launch Emergency. Since then, the group has treated nearly 200,000 women and children as well as some combatants at its clinics and rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia, northern Iraq and Sierra Leone...
Sept. 11, 2001 Four planes hijacked as terrorists launch attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane crashes in Pennsylvania Sept. 13, 2001 Police in Brussels arrest Nizar Trabelsi and another suspected terrorist. They also find an Uzi submachine pistol and a list of chemicals used to make explosives. Trabelsi is believed to have been planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris. Jérôme Courtellier and Mohammed Berkous are taken into custody in raids in Rotterdam Sept. 21, 2001 Lotfi Raissi, believed to have been...