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...infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged in part by a government-sponsored religious campaign, few Iraqis seem to share Osama bin Laden's repugnance for Western culture. Sitting on the lawn of Al Mustansiriyah University, geography student Hamid Lechali, 19, complained that America wants to control Iraq's huge oil reserves. But when the discussion moved away from politics, his 18-year-old girlfriend delightedly declared her favorite actors...
...TERROR Girding for the Next Attack With Osama bin Laden's taped threats still ringing in their ears, security agencies around the world wondered when and where the next strike might come. Governments from Britain to Australia had the impossible task of warning citizens about the danger while urging them to live normally. German authorities debated how to improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market...
...checks have been scrutinized so far. But sources said that starting in January 1999, payments of $2000 a month were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to a woman named Majida Ibrahim Ahmad Dwaikat, a Jordanian national with a green card, who is the wife of Osama Bassnan. Bassnan first came to the attention of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in April 1998, when he wrote a pleading letter to Princess Haifa introducing himself as a Saudi living in Washington with four children and a pregnant wife, who also had a severe thyroid condition. After vetting by the Saudi...
...Sources told TIME that all payments stopped in May 2002. Majida was deported in November 2002; her husband Osama Bassnan has been charged with visa fraud...
...chase these people down one at a time. It doesn't matter how long it takes, we'll find them and bring them to justice." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, responding to a message apparently recorded by Osama bin Laden...