Word: sheikhli
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...With no sales tax and low customs duties, gold traded in Dubai is cheaper than in the countries in which it originates. Prices can be driven down still further by a bit of traditional Middle Eastern haggling. If bargaining isn't your style, the Gold and Diamond Park on Sheikh Zayed Road offers a more restrained - if somewhat sterile - shopping experience...
...that he had a link to the 9/11 conspiracy. She put those shackles on the government's case because it had denied the defendant, on national-security grounds, access to witnesses who were in a position to say whether he was part of the 9/11 gang--Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other key al-Qaeda figures the U.S. has captured. Prosecutors are appealing the decision, with their first briefs due this week. But if they lose, they may be stuck with a precedent that would allow defendants access to avowed terrorists, perhaps inspiring the government in the future...
...Brinkema said Moussaoui could take a videotaped deposition of Binalshibh, a ruling that the government quickly appealed. Binalshibh had reportedly told investigators that Moussaoui was considered too unreliable for the 9/11 attacks, did not know about them and was to be used only if absolutely necessary. In March, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 strikes, was captured in Pakistan, and three days later Moussaoui demanded access to him as well. As it turned out, Mohammed later told interrogators that Moussaoui was to be used for a separate attack unrelated to 9/11...
...Hambali, who a regional intelligence official says is being interrogated at the joint British-American air base on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, knew more, according to his own account. Hambali said he recruited the four members of the cell on behalf of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11 who was al-Qaeda's military commander until his arrest in Pakistan in March. Mohammed told Hambali that the cell's mission involved hijacking a plane, and instructed him to get in touch in Malaysia with an activist named Zaeni, whom Hambali knew had trained...
...long run. Most of the Iraqi people may not like Saddam, but an equal amount of them will not support U.S. policies and its intentions in the region. Take it from a person from the region. So it is a failure from inception. Time will tell. Abdirazak Sheikh Dubai, United Arab Emirates...