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...grainy videotape showed 11 minutes of a blindfolded, sobbing man pleading for his life. "I don't want to die," said Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer taken hostage by Islamic extremists in Baghdad. Two American men kidnapped at the same time had already been beheaded on camera. Bigley appealed directly to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "You are the only person on God's earth who can help me. Please free female prisoners held in Iraqi prisons." Blair refused to bargain with the kidnappers, which made Kenneth's brother Paul bitter. "If my brother dies, his blood is on Blair...
...said he had alternate reasons to plead guilty and pay the fine. Mathews said that he has had to travel to Cambridge three times over the summer for court hearings...
Since last May, when FBI director Robert Mueller held a televised news conference to plead for news of el-Shukrijumah, tips have poured in placing him everywhere from Niagara Falls, N.Y., to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "He's kind of like Elvis," an intelligence official told TIME. "He seems to pop up all over the place." The last place he can credibly be traced to, however, is Waziristan. FBI agents call el-Shukrijumah the next Atta--after Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian ringleader of the 9/11 attacks. Investigators are trying to learn whether the versatile el-Shukrijumah helped case the buildings featured...
...Since last May, when FBI Director Robert Mueller held a televised news conference to plead for news of el-Shukrijumah, tips have poured in placing him everywhere from Niagara Falls in New York to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "He's kind of like Elvis," an intelligence official told TIME. "He seems to pop up all over." The last place he can be credibly traced to, however, is Waziristan. FBI agents call el-Shukrijumah the next Atta?after Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian ringleader of the 9/11 attacks. Investigators are trying to learn whether the versatile el-Shukrijumah helped case the buildings featured...
Kerry's political world is a far bigger place than it was 34 years ago, when his college-age brother had to plead for Boston's political kingmakers to give him even a look. But it's the nature of how things work in Washington that when a politician starts looking like the One, you will find legions of people who claim to have his ear. Kerry does indeed give many a listen. But as his spokesman Wade put it, "He's his own big thinker. He's not looking for people to make it easy for him." Nor does...