Word: saudi
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...dashing Dodi was royalty of a different sort. He was the only son of Mohamed al Fayed and his late first wife Samira Khashoggi, sister of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. The elder Al Fayed is a self-made billionaire whose wealth is greater than the Queen's. His sprawling empire contains some highly prized European properties. In addition to London's fashionable Harrods department store, he owns the Ritz Hotel of Paris, the British humor magazine Punch, the Fulham soccer club and a $32 million, 190-ft. yacht. The senior Al Fayed also holds a long-term lease...
...financial support of Yasser Arafat. Hamas sees him as a corrupt traitor who is selling out Palestinian interests to the Israelis. Hamas continues to deny any link to the apparent Brooklyn plot. But Palestinian security officials think the two suspects could be members of a new group, financed by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, which takes its orders from Hamas or another Islamist group. With Hamas' popularity at home slipping, American targets may now be topping the new group's list...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Apparently, Hani Al-Sayegh would rather take his chances with the U.S. judicial system than risk possible execution in Saudi Arabia. The suspect in the July 1996 Khobar towers bombing that killed 19 U.S. airmen abruptly dismissed a tentative plea bargain agreement today, pleading not guilty to charges he was an accomplice in the attack. Al-Sayegh had agreed to tell investigators all he knew about the bombing in return for being indicted on one conspiracy count. Although neither side is talking, the speculation is that talks broke down late Monday over the government's refusal to guarantee...
...being interviewed." Among the offending disclosures: a Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy that detailed U.S. intelligence intercepts of a covert Chinese-government scheme to funnel illicit money into political campaigns; revelations of plea-bargain negotiations between Justice and Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that alleged CIA killer Mir Aimal Kansi gave a confession to FBI agents who snared him in Pakistan; and the still unsolved leak of Richard...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Lawyers for suspected Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh say their client will cooperate with U.S. officials in their investigation of last year's Dhahran, Saudi Arabia bombing. U.S. officials believe Sayegh drove the look-out car during the June 1996 attack that killed 19 U.S. Airmen and injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop...