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...agency's investigation into both the September 11th terrorism attacks and the widening circle of anthrax cases, is resigning at the end of November. Pickard, a 27-year bureau veteran who supervised the prosecution of the World Trade Center bombers as well as the terrorism cases against the "blind sheik" Abdel Rahman, the East Africa embassy bombers and the perpetrators of the attack on the USS Cole in Aden, has been the FBI's chief operating officer since late 1999, when then-FBI director Louis Freeh made him his right hand...
...Arabs as a biased backer of Israel, so the tanks won't help ease the qualms Muslims feel about the bombing of Afghanistan. In fact, it may be too late. After Israeli troops first moved into the Palestinian towns, Ronald Schlicher, the U.S. consul-general in Jerusalem, went to Sheik Ikrima Sabri, the chief Muslim cleric in the city, to gauge public opinion on the Afghanistan airstrikes. "People are angry at America and they'll react against you," Sabri said. "America should stop being on the side of Israel...
...INVOLVED Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others were convicted...
...more he says," says Hughes. Cheney puts it another way: "I save my advice for the President." Cheney has been working hard to help Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell weave together a global alliance against terrorism. His past experience is paying dividends. Last week he spoke with Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar, an old friend from his travels building the Gulf War coalition 10 years ago. Cheney traded family updates, made a few inside jokes and then discussed how Qatar could lend the U.S. a hand...
...BANGLADESH Opposition Victory The power struggle between two former women Prime Ministers continued after Begum Khaleda Zia swept to power and was immediately challenged by ousted leader Sheik Hasina Wazed. Unofficial results gave the alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party two-thirds of the 300 seats in Parliament in a general election marred by violence but described by international monitors as "generally free and fair...