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...There was this connection I felt. Unfortunately, there were 50 of us who felt it." -Robin Solod, One of dozens of women who became engaged to U.S. Colonel Kassem Saleh, who fought in Afghanistan, after meeting him through online dating services...
...last public mention of Aziz Saleh Numan - the King of Diamonds in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqis - came on March 24. It was only days after U.S. forces launched the war. In a broadcast apparently intended to show that Saddam was still in charge, the "Voice of Youth Radio,? a station run by Uday, Saddam's eldest son, reported that the Iraqi president met with Numan, and Republican Guard chief Qusay Hussein, another of Saddam's sons...
...mosques all across Saudi Arabia were sacked from their posts. They had crossed the line. "It's inappropriate for preachers to convey to the faithful political or news reports in their sermons, as the preacher should be neither a broadcaster nor a journalist," explained the Islamic Affairs Minister Sheikh Saleh Al-Sheikh...
...Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has unambiguously chosen Washington's side in its war with al-Qaeda, arresting scores of al-Qaeda suspects - even, reportedly, bin Laden's youngest wife, 20-year-old Amal al-Saddah. But despite the crackdown, al-Qaeda elements have found support among tribal chieftains in more remote parts of Yemen, where they have taken shelter, and the government's ability to act against them has been limited. Indeed, it is the very weakness of the Yemeni state that makes it such an attractive base for bin Laden...
...thousands of young men to join the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and hundreds more drifted over there in the 1990s and became disciples of bin Laden. That left Yemen with one of the Arab world's largest concentrations of al-Qaeda supporters, which threatens President Saleh's plans to strengthen ties with the West. Recent suspected al-Qaeda operations in Yemen have included attacks on a French oil tanker and a U.S. oil company, underscoring the terrorist threat to Yemen's own economic development. But cooperation with the U.S. has angered local Islamists and prompted attacks...