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...decapitation by a Yemeni henchman includes unknowable embellishments: "As the Yemeni killer grabs and tears the collar of his shirt, he thinks of other hands. Of caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night before he sprung his trap on Pearl. Sheikh, Lévy finds, is a "perfect Englishman" of Pakistani origin, a chess player and champion arm wrestler, a brilliant student at the London School of Economics who embraced radical Islam during a stint in Bosnia...
...Loik Le Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist...
...southern Afghanistan. A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him. Dadullah claimed they are taking orders directly from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who has been in hiding since his regime fell in December...
...Queen roll into the first hamlet, and the Marines fan out, searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared. We will shoot 2,000 bullets back...
...Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him up. Dadullah claimed the clerics are taking orders directly from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader who has been in hiding since his regime fell in December 2001. U.S. forces have struck back hard. Following a tip from a rebel captured near Kandahar, U.S. forces and their Afghan allies killed at least 20 suspected Taliban fighters at a base in the Haba Mountains, according...