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Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers, is eager to unload this latest hot potato. Officials there quietly hint that the family is of Palestinian, Egyptian or Yemeni origin--the surname is more common in those places--and would love to be able to drop-kick his genealogy to another Arab country. "We are looking into the claims. We are not exactly sure yet," said Nail al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington...
...Harvard University Police Department is still investigating the origin of the fliers...
Although Scholl apologized for the contents of his e-mail, he said he knew nothing about the origin of fliers distributed Tuesday to law school students, which reproduced his e-mail, along with a swastika, profanities and anti-semitic statements...
...Harvard University Police Department is still investigating the origin of the fliers...
Scholl said that by sending the e-mail, he wanted to convey his belief in free expression and that a language barrier due to his Polish origin may have made the e-mail seem overly offensive...