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...Russian leader is not wrong about links between the Chechen insurgency and al-Qaeda: Arab volunteers have long fought in Chechnya under a Saudi commander known simply as Khattab (killed in action earlier this year), who had fought in Afghanistan and was believed to have been close to Osama bin Laden. And a few score al-Qaeda operatives took refuge alongside Chechen fighters hiding in Georgia last winter. Even there, however, there were clear differences - the al-Qaeda operatives urging the Chechens to attack Western targets in Russia, while many local Chechen commanders showed little interest in global 'jihad,' seeing...
...Jews should be restricted because Jews cheat. When a distinguished alumnus pointed out that non-Jews also cheat, Lowell replied that the alumnus was trying to change the subject, because Lowell wanted to talk about Jews. So too with divestment. When the human rights records of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, China and other countries are pointed to, those who favor divestment say, “you’re changing the subject; we’re talking about Israel...
...After 38 days of pummeling, they basically folded as U.S. ground troops moved in. In a new conflict, U.S. foot soldiers would probably enter Iraq more quickly. Ideally, the U.S. would send in land forces from three directions--south from Turkey, east from Jordan and north from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, although Iraq's neighbors have been reluctant to serve as staging points. Pentagon officials are optimistic that the Iraqi military, after more than a decade of sanctions, is a brittle force ready to snap under pressure. U.S. troops would face the most potent threat from the Republican Guard divisions...
...declining production. All the action makes the waters off West Africa one of the hottest places for oil exploration in the world. On a global scale, the numbers may seem modest; total proven reserves in the Gulf of Guinea sit at 40 billion barrels, less than one-sixth of Saudi Arabia's 261 billion. But Africa is just getting started. Says Al Stanton, an Edinburgh-based oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent...
...received information from "several" foreign agencies that the men?Abu Nujaid of Libya, Sadek Al Nassami, Abu Sallam, Abu Umaiya and Abul Abbas of Yemen, Abul Ashem of Algeria and Hassan Adam of Sudan?were involved in militant arms training at a madrasah in the capital run by a Saudi-backed charity, al-Haramain. In September, Indonesia's al-Qaeda supersnitch Omar al-Faruq told the CIA that al-Haramain was the foundation used to channel bin Laden's money to him from the Middle East. An American expert in the region concurs that branches of the ultraconservative foundation have...