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...have talked every other week since they met last fall. Along with a dozen other Oklahoma City veterans, Leonard was sent by the Red Cross to offer the grieving New York City-area families a glimpse of what lay ahead for them--just as a widow of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing had once done for her. "It's amazing to me how quickly you can talk to someone you don't even know," Leonard says. The two talk for hours, sometimes in mutual tears, signing off with the words "I love...
...Afghan opposition fight with renewed determination against bin Laden's Taliban hosts after Sept. 11, but some of Islam's most influential scholars and clerics began refusing to give their support to the Kabul regime. Egyptian Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is host of a religious program on the pan-Arab television channel al-Jazeera, issued a statement condemning the suicide attacks. Such acts helped refute the jihad pretenses of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and rob them of all transnational Islamic support...
Taxing savings is less of a headline-grabbing issue than the money of fallen dictators or Holocaust victims, but for the E.U. it may be just as significant. The planned exchange of tax information would create the beginnings of a more unified pan-European fiscal system, and end the anomaly of tax havens within the E.U. Germany in the 1990s saw how damaging capital flight could be when it instituted a special withholding tax on savings to pay for reunification, sparking an exodus of billions of marks to neighboring Luxembourg. Tax evasion is not a criminal offense in Switzerland...
...having the debate. Rumors of his demise started circulating 18 years ago, when he was first reported to have died in Baghdad. Now that the end seems certain, "there is a collective sigh of relief everywhere that he no longer exists," says Abdul Bari Atwan, editor of the pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi, based in London. Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still the enemy. --Reported by Azadeh Moaveni/Cairo, Matt Rees/Jerusalem and Douglas Waller/Washington
...billion Amount offered by the Libyan government earlier this year in a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the families of victims of Pan Am Flight...