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...dead, so what use are his records?'" says a U.S. official. "Everybody's been looking for bullets and bombs, but nobody's paid any attention to the paper." The Americans hope to use the task force to convince the Saudis of the value of what the FBI inelegantly calls link analysis and associational databases...
...brand of Islam practiced in the kingdom, has any connection to terrorism. Still, some are beginning to acknowledge that Saudi culture has bred an antipathy toward non-Muslims ("infidels" in Muslim parlance) that can lead to violence. After the May 12 attacks, the newspaper al-Watan made just that link in a series of articles and cartoons. That proved to be too much for the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars. After it complained to Prince Abdullah, al-Watan's editor, Jamal Khashoggi, was fired. That, however, has not silenced Turki al-Hamad, a Saudi columnist for the London-based paper...
Once inside the country, says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "it's not hard for [infiltrators] to link up with fellow travelers." Sources inside the anti-U.S. resistance say foreign fighters have congregated west of Baghdad, in the conservative Sunni strongholds of Fallujah and Ramadi, where they receive shelter, food and weapons from local Islamic militants and members of the Fedayeen Saddam militia--though intelligence officials say there's no evidence of active collaboration between the outsiders and regime loyalists...
Developments in database technology have made the job easier and cheaper for market-research firms to link databases, creating more detailed consumer profiles. When Hyundai decided to give the psychographic treatment to car buyers earlier this year, it chose LifeMatrix partly because that company's data are linked with information stored at Mediamark Research, which tracks what consumers read. The combination will provide Hyundai not only with profiles of the types of individuals likely to buy its cars, but also with data on what magazines those individuals read--enabling the carmaker to create effective ads and place them in front...
...argument, he kept mum about a later intelligence assessment that concluded a war would actually make it easier for terrorists to get their hands on Saddam's arsenal. Blair told the committee he judged that risk was less than that of giving Saddam more time to forge a link between terrorists and his wmds - but one risk he avoided was letting M.P.s and the public in on the internal debate. The committee drew blood from Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. He testified that dissent about the dossier among Ministry of Defence analysts was minimal, despite knowing that two had written formal...