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...world's two most nefarious villains, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein ought to have reasons to work together. They share similar interests--hatred of Israel, hostility toward the rulers of Saudi Arabia and, especially, enmity toward their common nemesis, the U.S. Both are suspected of dabbling in chemical and biological agents, and both are judged capable of using them. While al-Qaeda is still seeking weapons of mass destruction, Western intelligence experts think that Iraq already possesses some--in which case hooking up with bin Laden's network might make sense. If Saddam wants to employ his arsenal against...
Sabri al-Banna (Abu Nidal was his nom de guerre) was 11 when his affluent family was forced to flee the Arab city of Jaffa, now part of Israel, ahead of Jewish forces in the 1948 war. As a laborer in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s, he latched onto politics, joining Yasser Arafat's Fatah group, which would become the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Bouncing between Jordan, Sudan and Iraq, he rose through the ranks of the P.L.O...
...Although Saudi Arabia keeps stoning on its books, human-rights groups are not certain whether it is still carried out there. Yemen brought back the practice in 2000 for the brutal case of Mohammed Thabit al Su'mi, who raped and murdered his 12-year-old daughter. Witnesses reported that al Su'mi took four hours...
...worldwide BE ON THE LOOKOUT bulletin, or BOLO, has led to the detention of a 21-year-old Saudi man suspected of links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. The issued the BOLO alert for Saud A.S. al-Rasheed when his passport photo appeared on a CD-ROM with pictures of some of the 19 hijackers. The disc, turned over in May by a foreign government the FBI would not disclose, had only recently been analyzed because of the volume of material the agency has collected since the war on terrorism began, the bureau said. The bulletin included al-Rasheed...
...working as an informant for the FBI and the cia. According to the author, his plans were consistently tied up in red tape, not least when he had an opportunity to visit Osama bin Laden's training camp in Afghanistan. Collins also claims he met Hani Hanjour, the Saudi Arabian pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, and informed the FBI. Government officials have contradicted this assertion, saying that after Sept. 11, Collins denied knowing Hanjour...