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...DIED. SHEIKH MAKTOUM BIN RASHID AL- MAKTOUM, 62, pragmatic, business-minded Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Dubai who oversaw his city-state's transformation from a minor trading post to a gleaming, modern metropolis; of a suspected heart attack; in Australia. Active in foreign affairs, he was also an avid thoroughbred fan. With brothers Mohammed?who succeeds him as emir?and Hamdan, he founded Godolphin, one of horse racing's most winning stables...
...Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used to get information out of the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks...
...agreed to back an amendment--sponsored by Arizona Senator John McCain and, until recently, vehemently opposed by the White House--that would ban the torture of prisoners held by the U.S. anywhere in the world. But CIA spooks who interrogate terrorist suspects, such as alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, may not need to don kid gloves just yet. U.S. officials conceded to TIME that the White House and McCain, a former Navy POW in Vietnam, made certain the amendment imposes no new penalties for any CIA operatives who violate the ban. "The McCain legislation does not create...
...slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek,” the prince said in his statement, according to CNN. Alwaleed’s donation follows the University’s return of a controversial $2.5 million gift from United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan in 2004. Harvard gave the money, which was originally earmarked for an endowed professorship at the Divinity School, back to the UAE after the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center came under fire for promoting an anti-Semitic agenda. In an interview with the Washington Post, Alwaleed...
Missing from the indictment are allegations that Padilla planned to detonate a dirty bomb or blow up apartment buildings. Evidence for those charges came from captured al-Qaeda helmsmen Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, who have undergone the sort of coercive interrogation treatment, including waterboarding, that can induce people to lie. "It would have been very difficult to use that in court," said a Justice Department official. Expect pretrial skirmishes over such issues as access to classified information and, possibly, the effects of three years of isolation on Padilla's psyche. Said Patel: "He's been alone, with...