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...letters to his mentor Ebrahim Nana, who runs the Mill Valley, Calif., mosque where Lindh converted to Islam, Lindh has written of his dreams about building Islamic schools so American children would not have to go abroad to study. For now, he will recite a special prison prayer Nana has given him: "Our Lord, take us out of this town whose people are oppressors and raise for us from yourself one who will protect us." Says Nana: "Allah has kept him alive for a purpose...
...With reporting by Hilary Hylton/Mill Valley, Siobhan Morrissey/Alexandria, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington and Frank Sikora/Birmingham
...into Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains. Since then, the Pakistanis say, there have been no credible sightings. But thousands of al-Qaeda fighters did cross into Pakistan in two waves. According to Pakistani intelligence officials, the first exodus came in November, when al-Qaeda fled into the remote Tirah Valley to escape the U.S. bombardment of Tora Bora. The second wave entered last March, during the allied forces' Operation Anaconda against al-Qaeda positions in Afghanistan's eastern Shah-i-Kot mountains...
Grants Pass, Ore. Set in the middle of the Rogue river valley, Grants Pass offers white-water rafting and blue-ribbon fly-fishing as well as hiking, biking, golfing and skiing in the nearby Siskiyou Mountains. Shielded from the Pacific by mountains, Grants Pass has little of the rain or fog that afflicts much of the Northwest...
...proposal to require that stock options be treated as a business expense, like other forms of compensation, he held forth at length on why it was a bad idea. Many of his corporate campaign contributors would agree, since expensing options would initially cause earnings to appear lower. Silicon Valley companies, in particular, are pushing hard against it, arguing that start-ups would not be able to attract talent...