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...limits forced the Alabama Republican off the intelligence panel this year, but as new chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he is setting up hearings aimed at terrorist funding. A Shelby aide says the hearings will have "the Executive Branch telling the committee what they've done with the Patriot Act," the post--9/11 law that expanded the government's antiterror capabilities. The aide says the hearings' focus will include the CIA and the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen--and what they're doing to stanch the flow of terrorists' funds. --By Timothy J. Burger and Matthew Cooper
...Rimini coast near Schröder's aborted destination, it's Stefani rather than any German who is persona non grata. Maurizio Melucci, the head of tourism for the city of Rimini, was one of the first to call for the junior minister's resignation. People wondered why the patriot manqué drives an Audi rather than a Lancia, and whether his former marriage to a German woman influenced his feelings. Says Bernabò Bocca, president of Federalberghi, the main association of Italian hotels: "It looks like he had a problem with his wife and decided to take...
Sheila L. Skemp is the author of Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist
...black-market currency traders. Known as hawala in the Middle East, hundi in India and fei chien ("flying money") in China, these unlicensed remittance networks were targeted by the U.S. after 9/11, because some had been used by al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks. The following month the U.S.A. Patriot Act made participating in these networks a felony, and the law has been used more than 20 times against alleged violators...
...eventually made all-Patriot league, and even tried his hand as a semi-professional player in Germany...