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...Sheik Majed al-Sabah, 35, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. His mother Sheikha Amthal al-Ahmed al-Sabah is the favorite sister of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Emir, and his uncle Saad al-Abdallah al-Salim al-Sabah is the country's Prime Minister...
...posh Baghdad suburb, he says they were intrusive, even examining the personal belongings of his wife and daughters. He also said that one of the inspectors, an American, suggested that she could help him to accompany his wife out of the country to seek medical aid. Now Sheik Qutaiba Sa'adi Amash, a Shia cleric of the blue-domed Al Nid'a Mosque in Baghdad says that the visit of the bare-footed inspectors - and their rather innocuous questions about the area and construction of the structure - was an insult to Islam. "Mosques in Iraq contain nothing that they...
...candidacy of the former leader of Kach, the banned anti-Arab movement founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. Israel's Supreme Court overruled the ban on the two Arab politicians, but Arab leaders aren't impressed. "This Zionist mentality does not recognize our presence in the country," says Sheik Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement's radical wing. Salah and his deputy were interrogated by the Shin Bet last week, in what the sheik believes was an attempt to intimidate them into silence before the election. If the Shin Bet was making a veiled threat to Salah...
...gold and platinum. It is sheathed in the same leather used in Rolls Royces, and the face is scratch-proof sapphire. Ruby bearings under each keypad ensure precise key press. But while everyday mobiles are getting tinier by the moment, Vertu recalls an earlier, bulkier era. Kuwaiti fashion mogul Sheik Majed al-Sabah stopped carrying his, complaining of its weight. Before you put a Vertu on your Christmas list, check Santa's bank balance: prices go all the way up to €24,000 for the platinum model. In functional terms, that sum gets you one unique feature: a "concierge...
...Ramadan." While they try to anticipate the next attack, security forces are sifting through previous ones for clues. Last Tuesday French investigators resumed interrogation of six family members of the Djerba suicide bomber Nizar Naouar, whose last phone call before his death was to suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The satellite phone he used was purchased in Paris by his supposedly impoverished 22-year-old brother, Wahid, for [EURO] 1,900. The cost, and the complicated manner in which the phone was sent to Tunisia, suggest the backing of an organized group. But even if officials unearth...