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...RAIDING THE HEALTH FUND? Who benefited from Enron's employee-benefits fund? It wasn't just the company's workers, according to Robin Hosea, a former accountant in the benefits department. Hosea's lawyer, Randy McClanahan, confirms what Hosea first told CBS News: in early 2001 Hosea noticed suspicious payments made from the fund in 2000 that hadn't been approved by anyone in her department. She said those payments, totaling roughly $15 million, went for unspecified purposes that had nothing to do with employee benefits. Her superiors stonewalled efforts to trace the payments. In addition, Hosea found evidence...
...Londonistan Calling Reid was not born to Islam; he is a convert with a convert's zeal. His grandfather was a Jamaican immigrant to Britain, and his father Colvin Robin Reid met and married Lesley Hughes, a white woman who was the daughter of an accountant and magistrate. Richard was born in London in 1973, by which time his father, known as Robin, was in jail for car theft. All told, Robin has spent about 20 years behind bars. "I've seen the inside of most of London's prisons," he says. "I was no great example...
...jailed for the first time. In the next few years, Richard was in and out of prison, and when he bumped into his father in a shopping mall seven or eight years ago, he seemed depressed and downhearted. "He was born here in Britain, like I was," says Robin. "It was distressing to be told things like 'Go home, nigger!'" For once Robin, who had converted to Islam while in prison in the 1980s, had a suggestion that seemed to make sense. Muslims, he says, "treat you like a human being." Plus, he says, they get better food in prison...
...chosen path. He took the name Abdel Rahim and on his trips back to Brixton harangued listeners. "We warned him where the extremist ideas he was adopting had led people," says Baker. "But he found our beliefs too passive, too slow." Reid told his parents he was going overseas. Robin says his son sent him a letter from Iran, but if Reid visited there at all, it was probably on his way to a madrasah, an Islamic school, in Pakistan. In 1999 and 2000, Reid appears to have spent much of his time in Pakistan. He seems certain to have...
...destroyed China 12-1 last night, and Canada outmatched Russia 7-0 on Wednesday morning. Since Finland and Sweden each won their second games as well, each of the four teams clinched first or second place in their preliminary round-robin pools and advanced to the medal round...