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Following 9/11, the U.S. wasted little time identifying and pursuing entities thought to be funding al-Qaeda. But half a year after the bombings in Bali alerted the world to a lethal terror threat in Southeast Asia, intelligence officials and regional diplomats say that a complex web of charities, front companies, Islamic organizations, and individuals suspected of financing Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?the al-Qaeda-linked network blamed for the Bali attack and numerous others?remains largely untouched. For months, say U.S. officials, Washington has wanted to issue a list naming terror backers in Southeast Asia, thus freezing their assets...
Diving will help the Crimson remain in the hunt. Junior Renee Paradise and sophomore Anne Osmun have provided a lethal 1-2 punch on the boards for Harvard. The duo finished in the top three in both the one and three-meter events in every meet this season except for the Columbia-Dartmouth tri-meet...
...election on an anti-war platform, and he has insisted that he will not support military action to topple the Iraqi regime. Those hoping France and Germany would be swayed by Secretary of State Colin Powell’s influential address to the U.N. on Baghdad’s lethal technology and connections to al Qaeda have been disappointed. The French and the Germans purport to have the most high-minded of motives, yet in reality their policies are driven by factors no less crass and practical than those that compelled London and Paris to appease Mussolini...
...stated goal of social rights is to promote equality, they always create a new (and more dangerous) inequality of power wherein political leaders hold the reigns of both military might and economic production: a difficult or impossible task even for the competent and beneficent—and a lethal temptation for power-hungry tyrants...
...window of a TWA airliner in a 1985 hijacking in Beirut - and CIA station chief William Buckley the same year, to 241 killed in a 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters that led Ronald Reagan to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. The group was also blamed for lethal 1990s bombings of Jewish targets in Argentina - showing that its deadly reach extends far beyond the Mideast...