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...vanished, according to court documents filed by Mildred. In Bellingham, Wash., 120 miles away, Muhammad jump-started yet another life. He reportedly enrolled the kids, two of them age 8, one age 10, in school using false names. In June he went to Antigua and successfully applied for a passport, using a birth certificate that may have been falsified, according to a spokesman for the Antigua Prime Minister's office...
...another alleged al-Qaeda sympathizer in Southeast Asia was handed over to American officials and sent packing to the U.S. on a military plane. Slight difference this time: the suspect is an American. U.S. authorities claim Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, who was deported from Malaysia on Oct. 11 after his passport was revoked by Washington, is part of a six-person al-Qaeda terror cell based in Oregon. The group is alleged to have "conspired to wage war" against the U.S., most notably when five of them sought to enter Afghanistan last fall to fight in support of the Taliban. Four...
...people in Shenyang if they are surprised by his current woes, and the answer is an emphatic "No." The cause of his fall, they claim, is most likely Holland Village, his 220-hectare re-creation of a Dutch city on the outskirts of Shenyang. Yang, who carries a Dutch passport, got hooked on Holland while studying at Leiden University there. The partly-finished development looks like a dystopian Disney World. Within its gates, which are flanked by massive golden lions, are the offices of Yang's local empire, some of which are housed in a replica of the Hague...
...orchid seedling business he built into Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) Co., which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A hardy perennial himself, Yang was orphaned at five, graduated from China's naval academy and, after winning a scholarship to study in the Netherlands, scored himself a Dutch passport. Last year, Forbes magazine named him the second richest man in China with an estimated worth of $900 million...
...Faruq. In May, the report continues, the CIA found that Ibin al-Khattab, the late Chechen commander with ties to al-Qaeda, had once placed a call to al-Faruq on his cell phone. On May 2, shortly after discovering that al-Faruq had acquired a fake Indonesian passport, the Indonesian government authorized agents to arrest him. Intelligence reports say that on May 23, U.S. interrogators questioning Abu Zubaydah showed him a picture of al-Faruq. Abu Zubaydah quickly identified his old friend as "al-Faruq al Kuwait." He then told his inquisitors the tangled tale of al-Faruq...