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...action that could inflame Arab nationalist passions and thereby undermine the domestic standing of America's Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia. "My god, the idea of an occupation of Baghdad by the armed forces of the United States is unimaginable," said Saud. "This is the capital of Harun al Rashid, who was negotiating with Charlemagne. This was the flower of Arab civilization. Who is the general who will occupy Baghdad? How would he ever be considered a friend of the Arab world? But the U.S. is not an imperialist power and its record proves that...
...subsequent chaos? The Iraqi exile community is a joke. Let Saddam's own people decide his fate. Dictators do not last forever. Instead of wasting billions of dollars to wage a stupid personal war against Iraq, President Bush should use the money to boost the U.S. economy. SYED RASHID ALI SHAH Vroomshop, the Netherlands...
...sure they are not associated with any of the Palestinian militias connected to attacks on Israelis. A source close to the investigation tells TIME that a mysterious payment of $10 million has been tracked from a holding company controlled by Arafat's secretive adviser for economic affairs, Mohammed Rashid, to the Finance Ministry and then out again to an unspecified payee--on the orders of Arafat...
...investigators have noticed that a lot of Authority holdings were sold off in the past year, presumably to hide them from prying eyes. What's more, Arafat prevailed in having his man Rashid head the Palestine Investment Fund, which as of Jan. 1 is to be the single vehicle for the Authority's business holdings. Even if Rashid is eventually replaced, Arafat will not be completely without resources. Israeli lawmakers say that in a secret briefing, a top Israeli intelligence officer maintained that Arafat controls at least $1.3 billion worth of investments beyond the official hold-ings now being scrutinized...
...Nurzai, 24, who straggles by, carrying a blanket full of long grass over his shoulder, food for the sheep he tends. He says he was captured in Kunduz and, like thousands of other prisoners, stuffed into a shipping container and ferried to Sheberghan by troops loyal to warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. Hundreds died in the heat inside those metal boxes. Shown pictures of the prisoners, Nurzai names three he recognizes. "I was an innocent," he says, claiming he had been conscripted into the Taliban army months earlier. But moments later he admits he volunteered for service four years...