Word: trailing
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...Islamic banking, we wouldn't have opened this bank. The demand for competent Shari'a products and services is growing continually." Until the 1970s, banking in the Islamic world was largely confined to the informal hawala system, under which money was transferred through brokers without leaving a paper trail. The system came under scrutiny when it was linked to the al-Qaeda network around the world. But around 1975 Muslim nations in the Gulf and Asia, aided by the Islamic Development Bank, an organization fostering economic and social development in the Muslim world, started to offer Islamic financial services...
...book begins by introducing CIA director George Tenet, who is desperate to figure out “when or where or by what method” bin Laden will attack the U.S. As many as three years before Sept. 11, Tenet recruited 30 Afghan agents (the Seniors) to trail bin Laden throughout Afghanistan. They succeeded, but lacked the legal authorization to take lethal action against him. After 9/11, agents deployed by Tenet’s CIA used $70 million (in cash) to buy allegiance and cooperation from Northern Alliance and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. This initiative was perhaps the most...
...three substantial degrees of separation didn't stop Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman who referred to that incident following al-Jubeir's press conference to chide that ''the Bush Administration and the Saudis have done a masterful job of turning attention away from ... the trail that leads to the possibility that a foreign government provided support to some of the Sept. 11 hijackers...
...VISTAS Out by the Estrella Mountains, guests can can catch glimpses of wild horses. Trail rides on tamer beasts are available A GAMBLE Pima and Maricopa tribal leaders hope the joint venture with Sheraton will bring money into their community without relying on slot machines?although a casino is just a short trip away INDULGENCE The 16,260-sq.-meter spa is called Aji, a name derived from a place the Pima considered a sanctuary during battle...
...campaign trail, Modi's message is that India, Hindus and Gujarat are all under attack. The persecutors? Terrorists, criminals, all Pakistanis (and President Pervez Musharraf in particular, whom Modi declares to be his true electoral opponent), Osama bin Laden, intellectuals, the media, "pseudo secularists," communists and cow killers. He reserves particular venom for Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated Premier Rajiv Gandhi. Her entire party sees the world through "Italian glasses," he declares to loud laughs. But it's an odd slight for a man who himself looks out from behind a pair of frameless Bulgaris...