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...help it can get. It is clear that some Saudis give financial support to terrorist groups and that others join them. Of the 19 hijackers, 15 are thought to have been Saudis. The house of Saud has no reason to pussyfoot with terrorists. Osama bin Laden has made plain that the Saudi regime is his ultimate target. Saudi rulers know all about Islamic militancy. They have been dealing with it--rather effectively and rarely with kid gloves--since Ibn Saud's forces slaughtered the religious zealots of the Ikhwan in the 1920s...
...take two-and-a-half hours had taken about four, did we learn that the bus driver was “new.” She had also been looking at the map upside down and had driven us very close to Cape Cod. Our anticipation had fermented into plain anger as we realized the tailgates and opening kickoff were all happening without us. As the frazzled bus driver stepped off the bus to “recollect her thoughts’” we talked seriously about hijacking the whole operation, locking...
With the graduation of its founding members last year, the band might have have died. It was up in the air for a while, but at some point it was plain we were getting somewhere, says Scammon, explaining his purchase of the House of Funk. Knowing how long it took to get this going so well...to do it all again seemed so unecessary. The lease is only for a year, but, as Scheuer says, Were not going to end FinkFankFunk right now, because were on a funk odyssey, and its not going to end until were old and crippled...
Meanwhile, back in Swenson's hometown of Rockford, Ill., another Charlotte, the plain teenage daughter of Swenson's childhood friend, drifts between an affair with a mysterious math teacher, an older man of shifting and suspect identity, and study sessions with her uncle, a history professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages...
...Alliance troops quickly capturing two important towns to the north and east, and more importantly, almost immediately opening up a land corridor from the Uzbek border. That would allow massive shipments of humanitarian aid to be immediately shipped to hundreds of thousands of Afghans facing starvation on the northern plain. It would also allow the U.S. to ship tons of military hardware to the Alliance, and possibly begin deploying its own forces in larger numbers inside Afghanistan...