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...terror cell that mounted the May 12 suicide truck bombings, was cornered by Saudi police July 3 in the town of Sowair, near the border with Jordan. He blew himself up with a hand grenade rather than being taken alive. U.S. intelligence reports describe him as head of Persian Gulf operations for al-Qaeda, responsible for land and maritime attacks on U.S. and Western interests throughout the region. His knowledge of al-Qaeda plans could extend to schemes in Asia, Europe and the U.S., officials...
...currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani took over the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured in separate incidents, say U.S. officials...
...first-night target in the war on Baghdad--almost as important as killing Saddam Hussein. Capture it early, went the thinking, and the next Iraqi government at least had a chance of getting back on its feet. Ignore it, and Saddam might blow up the facility, flooding the nearby Persian Gulf with crude, compromising Iraq's economy and shutting down critical water-desalination plants all along the Arabian Peninsula...
...growth in money transfers since 1999, sent home $32 billion last year. They also shelled out $4 billion in remittance fees, or about 12.5% of the money they sent--nearly 50% more than what Turks pay to wire funds from Germany or Filipinos pay to send money from the Persian Gulf. Latin American migrant workers pay more because they tend to steer clear of banks in their home countries as well as abroad. In Mexico, for example, only 1 in 5 citizens has a bank account. Unstable local currencies don't help matters, nor does the memory of mid-century...
...Arafat, 73, brags of his descent from a Jerusalem family, whereas Abbas, 68, was born in the ancient Galilean town of Safed, now part of Israel. In 1948 his family fled to Damascus to escape the fighting of the first Arab-Israeli war. Abbas' best connections are in the Persian Gulf, where he was long the P.L.O.'s main man. In peace talks before and after the 1993 agreement, Abbas gained a reputation as one of the Palestinian leaders most open to compromise with Israel, making him relatively popular with Israelis and Americans but less so with Palestinians...