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Enaam Arnaout is not an especially rich man. Yet every time the Syrian-born director of the Benevolence International Foundation, an Islamic charity, visited Bosnian offices over the past few years he would withdraw the same sum from a local bank: $50,000 in neat notes, 10 times in two years, or up to half a million bucks since 2000. Then the money would disappear. "We have no idea where it went," Ivica Misic, head of Bosnia's antiterrorism commission told TIME. He has his suspicions, though. In a case now before a U.S. court, FBI investigators are arguing that...
...democracy will diminish the power of gunmen in Palestinian society and make a compromise peace deal more likely. But that outcome is far from guaranteed. A senior Palestinian official says that the regional peace conference the U.S. had hoped to stage in Turkey this summer "is dead" because of Syrian reluctance to sit with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and limitations insisted on by Sharon. --By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad/Ramallah
Autocratic Middle-East leaders and their state-run newspapers, moreover, have been leveling ridiculous charges of Nazism against Israel for years. In 1983, Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass penned The Matzah of Zion, which propagated the repugnant libel that Jewish families murdered Gentiles and then used their blood to make traditional holiday pastries...
...March 19, 1998, another Syrian daily newspaper, Al-Baath—the official mouthpiece of the ruling al-Baath Arab Socialist Party—cautioned that “…[then Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu is following in Hitler’s path...
...Zubaydah's comrades lunged at a cop and wrested away his AK-47. "There was a struggle for the gun, and Zubaydah was hit in the cross fire," Hussain says. He was shot in the stomach, the leg and possibly the groin. His gun-grabbing comrade, a Syrian named Abu al-Hasnat, was killed, and the third, unidentified suspect was also wounded, along with three officers. Once the al-Qaeda men were all handcuffed, the Americans moved in, comparing their catch--25 foreigners in all that night--to photos kept in a casebook of known al-Qaeda members. When...