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...city of Dubai's airport, and tons more hotels and condos. Dubai recently unveiled a plan to create a "global aerospace manufacturing and services corporation" that will offer leasing and repair services, challenging firms like General Electric (start-up funds: $15 billion). Emaar is building an entire city in Saudi Arabia, a $23 billion project that will include an airport, seaport, schools and hospitals...
...with her. She did what she could to win his confidence, donning a hijab, the head covering worn by observant Muslim women, when she visited him at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Eventually, he began to ask how his aging father in Saudi Arabia made contact with her, how he could be sure she was not another interrogator trying to extract more information from him. "He asked me the same questions over and over," says Gitanjali Gutierrez. "He desperately sought some means of reassuring himself that I was a real lawyer and would...
...wonder that Gutierrez's client would be worried. He is Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi thought by U.S. counterterrorism officials to be the so-called 20th hijacker, the would-be fifth terrorist on the flight that crashed in a Pennsylvania field on 9/11. In a June 20, 2005, cover story, TIME chronicled part of the interrogation of al-Qahtani, based on a highly classified log kept at Guantánamo over a 50-day period in the winter of 2002-03. The 84-page log, available in full on TIME.com showed U.S. interrogators using a wide range of tactics...
...totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...Islamic leaders have a great deal of freedom. They are free to destroy Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan without a word of protest from Muslim nations. They are free to deny non-Muslims the opportunity to worship freely, as in Saudi Arabia. They are free to deny the Holocaust and vilify the Jewish religion. Yet publish a few cartoons, and the Muslim world is aflame. Perhaps Islamic leaders will now acknowledge that their actions over many years have been deeply offensive to other religions and take steps toward a more balanced and sensitive approach. Michael Renan Cape Town...