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...perhaps there is something more corrupting about the Harvard football team playing McNeese State after Thanksgiving than the women’s hockey team going deep into NCAAs or Penn basketball becoming America’s sleeper pick every March. But there certainly is a double-standard, one that has no apparent benefit...
...them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., outside Buffalo. The putative American in al-Harethi's entourage traveled under the name Ahmed Hijazi, an alias used by Derwish. A positive identification may be difficult: the 5-ft.-long Hellfire turned the six people in the car into a mass of carbonized body parts. "They never...
REINHARDT: I think the danger for those already in retirement or close to it is that employers will find legal ways to whittle away benefits if it's absolutely necessary. I think it's a sleeper issue: more of the share of the health-care costs of the elderly will have to be borne by them or by Medicare, because employers have the legal means to pull...
...Muslim fundamentalists with connections to "certain extremist groups." The authoritative Asharq al Awsat daily published in London quoted Kuwaiti sources saying that the men were probably linked to bin Laden's network. Arab commentators see the attack in Kuwait and Yemen as a sign that al-Qaeda sleeper cells have been activated. Kandari and Hajiri would certainly not be the first known al-Qaeda operatives to hail from Kuwait. The group's oft-videotaped spokesman is a militant Kuwaiti preacher named Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. And a Kuwait-born Palestinian, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, is believed to have played a central role...
...activity; the first was John Walker Lindh (see box). Earnest James Ujaama allegedly conspired to set up a jihad training camp in Oregon and provide support and resources for al-Qaeda. He maintains his innocence. Also last week, four north Africans were indicted in Detroit, accused of operating a sleeper cell...