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...Mansour Shahab, a mercenary now in Kurdish custody who says he worked for Saddam's secret police, told interviewers that in 2000 the regime set aside $16 million for nine terrorist operations, including a scuttled suicide attack Shahab was supposed to organize against a U.S. Navy ship in the Persian Gulf...
...huge amounts discussed in the U.N. report, al-Qaeda's budget for mass murder doesn't necessarily need millions. Investigators believe the September 11 hijackers were financed mostly from abroad, by at least $325,000 funneled into the U.S. over a one-year period from operatives in the Persian Gulf - usually in apparently innocuous tranches of less than $10,000 that went into more than 35 different accounts. The whole operation is believed to have been undertaken for no more than $500,000 - a little over $26,000 per hijacker over a year. And the terrorists fiscal discipline appears...
...last week that none of the many scenarios leaked to the newspapers will resemble the plan eventually presented to Bush: "People don't want to accept this, but everything about it is going to be different. It won't be like Afghanistan, and it won't be like the Persian Gulf...
...last week that none of the many scenarios leaked to the newspapers will resemble the plan eventually presented to Bush: "People don't want to accept this, but everything about it is going to be different. It won't be like Afghanistan, and it won't be like the Persian Gulf...
...Bush is unhappy that Russia has supplied Iran with reactors for a huge nuclear power complex, shown above in a January satellite photo. Experts say the reactors cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium but they will certainly improve Iran's nuclear know-how. The site, which has docks on the Persian Gulf (1), has one reactor dome completed (2) and a second rising (3), but pipes (4) for the cooling pond remain unattached. The complex is likely to come online in late...