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...clutched his baby daughter and led his wife away from their burning home. "All this for a beauty show." - By Simon Robinson. With reporting by Phil Akhaine/Kaduna FRANCE In the Picture A judge ordered three photographers to stand trial for taking pictures of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and her lover Dodi Fayed in August 1997. Jacques Langevin, Christian Martinez and Fabrice Chassery will be tried in criminal court next year after a complaint by Mohamed al Fayed, Dodi's father. They will face charges of breaching privacy laws by taking pictures of Dodi inside the wrecked...
...Some eight months later, Bassnan's wife Majida wrote to Princess Haifa to make a similar plea - and, in January of 1999, the first series of payments to Majida were sent to an address in Northern Virginia, in care of another party. Majida then apparently moved, and later checks went to an apartment in Baltimore...
...question that has captivated officials in Washington is whether funds from the bank accounts of the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and his wife, known as Princess Haifa, might have found their way into the wrong hands...
...last 48 hours, TIME has learned, Riyadh's embassy in Washington has launched a major search through its medical, student, consular, cultural and other records to try to find out whether funds from an account of Princess Haifa their way into the hands of people who may have been supporting terror. That link has not been proven. But sources close to the Saudis made it clear that the ambassador's wife did not keep a close eye on her accounts. On Friday, Princess Haifa's accountant was dispatched to a branch of the Riggs National Bank in Washington to make...
...That search is not complete; only a portion of the checks have been scrutinized so far. But sources said that starting in January 1999, payments of $2000 a month were made from Princess Haifa's checking account to a woman named Majida Ibrahim Ahmad Dwaikat, a Jordanian national with a green card, who is the wife of Osama Bassnan. Bassnan first came to the attention of the Saudi Embassy in Washington in April 1998, when he wrote a pleading letter to Princess Haifa introducing himself as a Saudi living in Washington with four children and a pregnant wife, who also...