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...That plot, of course, had nothing to do with Jose Padilla, or his notorious alter ego, Abdullah al-Mujahir. It concerned three Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda operatives recently relocated to Morocco, who had planned to use a rubber dinghy packed with explosives to attack U.S. Navy vessels passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. The reason you're probably only faintly aware, if aware at all, of the foiled Morocco plot is that the U.S. media has been dominated this week by a mug-shot of former Chicago gangbanger Padilla, and talk of "dirty bombs...
...Baffert saw something in War Emblem that Reineman didn't--a nasty competitor begging to get loose on a big track. So did Prince Ahmed bin Salman, an American-educated, Saudi Arabian stable owner who had charged Baffert with finding him a Derby runner, and the two hoped their hunch would pay off. Did it ever. War Emblem won the Derby in style, going off as a 20-to-1 shot and leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert...
...Traffic Highlighted A survey of 89 countries by the U.S. government showed that at least 700,000 and perhaps as many as 4 million people are abused in a "modern form of slavery." Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that 19 countries - including Afghanistan, Greece, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey - had the worst records of failure to act against human trafficking. U.S. legislation, passed in 2000, calls for economic sanctions against countries that do not take action to halt trafficking or help its victims. MEXICO Logging Massacre A land dispute that has festered since 1935 claimed 26 victims in Oaxaca...
...example, his argument that "the Bush administration is using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of most of the American people, while enriching corporations"), but his solutions, including the removal of U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia, come perilously close to appeasement - the notion that if you just give the terrorists what they want, they'll leave you alone. This is impractical for as imperial a country as the U.S. - which is, one strongly suspects, Zinn's point. "We have to go through a real revolution...
...Valentine's Day 2002, Williams took the stand against Faisal Al Salmi, a Saudi Arabian pilot accused of lying about his connections to Hani Hanjour, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Williams testified that he had been working 16- to 18-hour days as the case agent on the FBI's post-Sept. 11 investigation in Arizona. He usually arrived at the office by 5 a.m., and he didn't take a day off until Thanksgiving. The most senior member of a joint terrorism task force, Williams was in charge...