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...hostess at the House of Blues on the night she went home with Spector, who has said she shot herself. SENTENCED. ABD AL-RAHIM AL-NASHIRI and Jamal Al-Badawi; to death, for the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, which killed 17 sailors; in Sana'a, Yemen. The Saudi-born al-Nashiri, considered an associate of Osama bin Laden's and the mastermind of the Cole attack, has been in CIA custody outside the U.S. since 2002, and was tried by the Yemenis in absentia. Four others received prison terms for their roles in the bombing. DIED. JOHN...
...selective amnesia might explain why in this sea of wartime chaos and controversy, Osama bin Laden has been conveniently lost. Not that Bush ever found him, of course, but now the Saudi fellow has vanished not only in reality, but also in rhetoric. I bet he is hiding away in some cave right now, feeling quite indignant. After all, he’s the one who did the work, and Saddam got the credit. That’s like plagiarism, only maybe a lot worse...
Democrats should stand up for a more realistic approach to promoting democracy. They should demand that the administration make our support for regimes such as those in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Pakistan conditional on democratic reform in those countries. Perhaps the White House is hesitant to offend our allies in the fight against terrorism. If so, the administration does not understand how crucial democratic reform is to curbing militant extremism...
...delay seemed to rise from slow visa processing in Saudi Arabia, where only two venues are capable of processing piles of visa applications, Al-Dabbagh said...
...consumption 17% (and net oil imports 50%) while the economy grew 27%. The key to that revolution was a huge increase in average miles-per-gallon of the U.S. automobile fleet. If we had continued to increase energy efficiency at the same rate, the stability of Iraq and Saudi Arabia would by now be of minor concern to U.S. policymakers. Instead, we bought SUVs and wasted two decades...