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FREED. ROY HALLUMS, 57, U.S. contractor, formerly of Newport Beach, Calif., kidnapped at gunpoint last November while working for a Saudi catering company that provided food to the Iraqi army and last seen publicly in January in a video, pleading for his life; by U.S. forces, acting on a tip from a recent detainee, in a raid on an Iraqi farmhouse, where he had been held, bound and gagged; near Baghdad...
...brewer is wooing soft-drink bottlers from Iraq to Indonesia with his "PlatoTec" process, which makes tiny, layered granules of malt at about $2 per lb. Tapping the nonalcoholic halal-beer and flavored-malt-drink market positions GranMalt against Heineken's Fayrouz in Egypt and Carlsberg's Moussy in Saudi Arabia. But as consumption grows an estimated 6% annually over the next five years, exporting GranMalt gives Arab brewers an alternative to importing bottled beer or building a brewery, which is often met with political and cultural obstacles. Being nonalcoholic, it is not subject to the heavy tariffs of Muslim...
...scapegoat for all the ills in society. But blaming religion does not resolve conflicts. Al-Qaeda is not against the American or European way of life. It is against the constant political and economic intrusions by the West into the Middle East. It wants American troops out of Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants to see Palestinians given justice and a peaceful place to live and work, with no influence whatsoever by Israel over their daily lives. The world will be a better place when the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is resolved and the West pulls its forces...
DIED. KING FAHD BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD, 84, monarch who kept Saudi Arabia stable during two decades of regional and domestic crises; after several strokes and diabetes left him largely incapacitated for the past decade; in Riyadh. Fahd's rule, which now passes to his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, was marked by an effort to balance his country's traditionalist religious faith with the imperative to build a modern state. A fan of the U.S., he transformed the once primitive desert kingdom into a gleaming bastion of skyscrapers and expressways and oversaw a massive expansion of Islam...
...Some sad news--King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has died. In respect, the Saudi royal family lowered their flag and raised their oil prices." --JAY LENO