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...Ramallah when she began trawling Internet chat rooms at about the time of the second intifadeh. She soon found Ofir Rahum, a schoolboy from the Israeli city of Ashkelon. She said she was a newly immigrated Moroccan Jew named Sali, and she soon initiated a sexually charged cyber-relationship. The young man was bedazzled that an older woman was so passionate about him. (See pictures from the saga of Gilad Shalit...
When Rahum failed to return that night and his parents discovered that he hadn't been at school, they alerted the police. Logging in to the chat room through his computer, Rahum's sister tried contacting Sali, but there was no reply. "I knew about his relationship with the woman, but neither of us knew that she was from Ramallah," said the boy's friend Abergil. "She misled him. He told us that she was from Jerusalem." Israeli police discovered the body of a boy on the outskirts of Ramallah. Israeli intelligence traced Muna's screen name to an Internet...
...biggest suppliers of fighters to regional conflicts. It is common knowledge in the tearooms of the Yemeni capital of Sana'a and in Western embassies that the government of northern Yemen used jihadis to help defeat the south in the civil war that ended in 1994. But the symbiotic relationship between the government and al-Qaeda shifted after 9/11 and the American invasion of Iraq, when the Yemeni government worried that it too might be on the receiving end of U.S. military action. Sana'a helped the U.S. with the assassination of an al-Qaeda leader in 2002 by missile...
...never returned. She divorced David and married Joao Paulo Lins e Silva, a well-known Rio de Janeiro lawyer. The couple kept Sean in Brazil, and David Goldman's legal efforts to regain custody were rebuffed by Brazilian courts on the grounds that the boy's relationship with his mother was his primary bond...
...himself against 'allegations from former colleagues that he used Wikipedia as a personal piggy bank': that he faced controversy over his age and 'doctored his own Wikipedia entry to knock it down a couple of years: and that there had been speculation and board in-fighting about Wales's relationship with the organization. Jimmy Wales has pointed out that we repeated allegations which have no truth and we apologize to him for this...