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...extort money from Bill Cosby by threatening to tell tabloid newspapers she was his out-of-wedlock child. She was also convicted of conspiracy and crossing state lines to commit a crime, and faces up to 12 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. Co-defendant Jose Medina, 51, was convicted of the same three counts. A third defendant, Boris Sabas, 42, was convicted of conspiracy and crossing state lines, but acquitted of extortion charges. Jackson, 22, has portrayed herself as an innocent and abandoned child who merely wanted her rightful portion of Cosby's massive fortune. But that...
...Holy Mosques,' an important element of legitimacy, given that the Saud family were basically conquerors of the tribes of the Arabian peninsula and have never permitted an election," notes TIME's Scott MacLeod. "King Fahd has spent billions on vast and opulent expansion projects in Mecca and sister city Medina, partly out of vanity and party to show the Muslim world and his subjects in Saudi Arabia that he is doing great things for Islam." The end result of the expansion is an ever-growing number of pilgrims pouring into a remote site for a two-week period, increasing...
Growing up in Saudi Arabia near the Red Sea, bin Laden struck those around him as an ordinary young man. But he was more pious than his brothers, and was deeply affected by the involvement of his family's company in rebuilding the holy mosques in Mecca and Medina. Then in 1979, just after he graduated from King Abdul Aziz University, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and mujahedin resistance fighters put out an international plea for help. Bin Laden responded by packing himself and several of his family's bulldozers off to central Asia. He was inspired, he said...
...conscience." As the days went by, however, his strategy for staying the course came under growing pressure. Three of his 15 ministers resigned, as did five ambassadors. A group representing 15 influential business organizations suggested that he step down pending an investigation. By the end of the week, Santiago Medina, his former campaign treasurer who last year testified that the campaign received about $6 million from cartel leaders, claimed that Samper personally ordered the use of $400,000 of those funds for his election...
...fate. Critics denounced the plan as costly and having the potential to incite a civil war. Students and veterans demanded that Samper resign after his ex-campaign manager said the President had known the Cali cartel was funding his election bid with millions of dollars. Former campaign treasurer Santiago Medina fueled their anger by saying Samper personally gave the order to distribute some $400,000 of drug money for his campaign...