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...militants have not gone down easily. In those sweeps, 11 Saudi security officials have died. The four members of an al-Qaeda unit, cornered in a house in the al-Jouf region, chose to bind themselves together and blow themselves up with hand grenades rather than get caught. In a number of raids, suspects managed to get away: at least two broke out of a safe house under surveillance, 10 escaped from another hideaway when police approached, and seven slipped through a police cordon during a five-hour gun battle in Riyadh. One arrest suggested al-Qaeda may have penetrated...
Some U.S. investigators think the Saudis could be learning a lot more about al-Qaeda members they have captured or killed. These officials say their Saudi counterparts have not seemed interested in setting up an analytical unit to pore over the suspects' financial records, computer hard drives, emails, phone records and other data. "Their attitude has been, 'Swift Sword is dead, so what use are his records?'" says a U.S. official. "Everybody's been looking for bullets and bombs, but nobody's paid any attention to the paper." The Americans hope to use the task force to convince the Saudis...
...feel like commodities," says a software engineer in General Electric's medical-systems division whose gripe echoes those of millions of mid-level professionals in corporate America. She says employees like her have been pressured to put in longer hours and take on more work to help her unit make its bottom-line numbers. GE's corporate elite are facing the same pressures, of course. But as anointed members of the GE star track, they're likely to spend 18 months to two years at a particular business before transferring to another--often leaving problems among...
...life"--conjured the comforting glow of a GE light bulb or the hum of a refrigerator. Real stuff. The company's new catchphrase--"Imagination at work"--may soon summon visions of the Hulk or a horse named Seabiscuit. With GE entering talks last week to merge its NBC unit with Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets, the industrial powerhouse has muscled onto a media stage already crowded with Schwarzenegger-size conglomerates. For GE, imagination may soon have to do some heavy lifting...
...began constructing his Khalifa Group empire that within three years boasted €1.7 billion in annual sales and €200 million in profits. Flush with success and cash at home, Khalifa expanded his domestic airline business to Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and launched European car-rental units. He also indulged his social ambitions by organizing celebrity-studded receptions and junkets to Algeria, sponsoring pro sports teams and founding satellite TV channels based in London and Paris. Last September, Moumen launched his French Khalifa TV from his €36 million villa in Cannes. But the image began to fray...