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...Sept. 11; they say the Saudis who ultimately joined bin Laden's brigade learned their trade not in Saudi Arabia but by fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan-a war supported and funded in part by Washington. But some Saudi elites have begun to argue that something is basically rotten in their homeland. Says a Saudi journalist: "Wahhabism breeds extremism. It was building up, and bin Laden used it. The government should have said, 'Enough is enough...
...Israeli reoccupation of West Bank cities has handed religious hard-liners an excuse to go on the offensive. In a televised address, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, imam of the Mosque of Mecca, declared that God turned Jews into "pigs and monkeys," condemned the "poisonous culture and rotten ideas" of the West, and trashed Hinduism...
...INSIDER STOCK SELLING] [Thoroughly rotten] From 1999 to last November, Global Crossing executives sold more than $1.3 billion of company stock, with Winnick cashing in some $735 million worth...
...EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION] [Thoroughly rotten] Adelphia guaranteed $3.1 billion in loans to off-balance-sheet partnerships owned by founder John Rigas' family. Some of the money was used to build the Rigases a golf course...
...BOARD INDEPENDENCE] [Thoroughly rotten] Before they resigned last month, Rigas and his three sons accounted for four of the company's nine board members. Rigas' son-in-law refused to step down despite calls for his resignation...