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...understand him. He's part go-your-own-way artist, part passionate communitarian, part canny salesman, part lyrical architectural philosopher. (One typical pronouncement: "I think design is a defunct word. I curate spaces.") The son of a Ghanaian diplomat, he was born in Tanzania and raised in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon. He brings to his work the eye of a man who has learned as much from the intricately woven streetscapes of Cairo as from the ideal geometries of Le Corbusier. "I spent my childhood in a profoundly different physical environment, with a different sense of public and private spaces...
...revisits al-Aulaqi, it will have to do so overseas. In early 2002 he left for Yemen, partly because of a "climate of fear of intimidation," says Johari Malik, a friend. Malik says al-Aulaqi returned briefly last fall to liquidate his assets and adds: "If he was concerned about the feds, he wouldn't have come back." --By Massimo Calabresi, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon
After years of strained relations with Washington, the government of Yemen has quietly allowed the FBI to open an office in its capital city, San'a, TIME has learned. "Yemen is a hotbed" of Al Qaeda fighters, says a top U.S. counter-terror official. The FBI, along with the CIA and the U.S. military, is urgently trying to disrupt efforts by the jihadists to reconstitute command and control structures in parts of rural Yemen controlled by clans hostile to the government in San'a and sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden, whose own family roots are in Yemen...
...gaining far greater access to telephone records, prisoner interrogations and other intelligence about Yemeni al-Qaeda operatives that have been involved in a series of major terrorist incidents, including the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor; last year's attacks on a French tanker off Yemen's coast and an Israeli tourist hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; and the May 12 bombing of Western residential compounds in Riyadh...
...Also in their in-box: an assignment from Washington's Joint Terrorism Task Force to track American Muslim cleric Anwar Aulaqi. TIME has been told by a friend of Aulaqi's that the imam abruptly moved to Yemen, his parents' birthplace, last year, as the investigation into his possible relationship with three 9/11 hijackers was heating up. But Aulaqi may be on the move. The FBI is asking British authorities for information on the 32-year-old cleric's doings if he appears in the northern English city of Bradford this month to teach, as advertised on the internet...