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Just home from school on an ordinary afternoon, Sana Shah, 16, plops down her books, shakes out her hair and heads upstairs to watch some TV. She switches the set in her parents' bedroom to Roswell and kicks her younger brother and sister off the couch. "Teenage aliens with identity crises," grumbles her mother, who is trying to nap on the bed. "What nonsense...
YEMEN Street Cornered A brother-in-law of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers blew himself up with a hand grenade as security forces moved in to capture him in a suburb of the capital, Sana'a. Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada was also wanted in connection with the Oct. 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Earlier in the week, the fbi issued a terror alert identifying 17 al-Qaeda suspects, six of whom were found to be in jail in Yemen...
...abet Islamic radicals, and al-Qaeda sympathizers are in the army and bureaucracy. Al-Qaeda operatives arrested for bombing the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 received false documents from a former mujahedin fighter working for the Yemeni government. The country, says a senior Western diplomat in the capital of Sana'a, "is an important node for terrorist groups." Al-Qaeda agents ran free as facilitators to move people, supply documents and look after finances until the Cole attack proved they also had operational capabilities...
...says. "Once you have a separate identity, then other things will come." For most Muslim women, there are many things left to come. -Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Amanda Bower/ New York, Andrew Finkel/Istanbul, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Scott MacLeod/Riyadh, Azadeh Moaveni/Tehran, Amany Radwan/ Cairo, Matt Rees/Amman and Simon Robinson/ Sana...
...Calgary, the solution to the mystery may lie amid the ruins of a 3,500-year-old temple complex in northern Yemen. Known in Arabic as Mahram Bilqis - "the Queen of Sheba's sanctified place" - the sprawling ruins are situated about 130 km east of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and just a few kilometers from the ancient citadel of Marib, at the edge of the forbidding Arabian desert. "The Queen of Sheba," he asserts, "is likely to have lived in Marib and worshipped at Mahram Bilqis...