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...Saudi diplomat, is alive in Morocco and working for the Saudi airlines. A man using the name Abdul Alomari, born Dec. 24, 1972, is listed on the passenger manifest of Flight 11. But someone called Abdulaziz Alomari who shares that birth date is alive and well in Riyadh. Last week he told a newspaper that in 1995, when he was studying engineering at the University of Denver, his passport was stolen...
...children hugged. Patriotism hung in the air, as palpable as the first chills of fall; flags sprouted on a million lapels and fluttered from a thousand taxicabs in a wounded but defiant New York. On television, the reports came from Islamabad, not as they had a decade ago from Riyadh or Baghdad or Amman. And as predecessors in his high office--including his father--had done before, George W. Bush drove from the White House to the Capitol, and in an address to Congress and the watching world, discharged the weightiest responsibility that any President can ever be asked...
...wage terrifying war on Afghanistan. There are already several hundred American warplanes in the region, based in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and aboard two aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and the U.S.S. Enterprise. Washington wants to conduct the air war from a new command center just outside Riyadh, but the Saudis are balking. (If the past is any guide, the U.S. will eventually get its way.) Another pair of carriers, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, could be ready to attack within a week. The Pentagon and the State Department have arranged for basing bombers...
...year, U.S. officials now believe, bin Laden began shopping for a nuclear weapon, hoping to buy one on the Russian black market. When that failed, they say, he started experimenting with chemical warfare, perhaps even testing a device. Then, in 1995, a truck bombing of a military base in Riyadh killed five Americans and two Indians. Linking bin Laden to the attack, the U.S.--along with the Saudis--pressured the Sudanese to expel him. To his dismay, they...
...Riyadh Nov. 13, 1995 The U.S. believes bin Laden is responsible for a car-bomb attack, which killed five Americans and two Indians...