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...like Shaq in downtown Kandahar. Not to mention the fact that he's reputedly traveling with three wives and various offspring in tow. Still, bin Laden's height doesn't exactly make him a freak in the parts of the world from which he hails - remember, his father was Yemeni rather than Saudi, and al-Qaeda could conceivably have recruited scores where bin Laden was born...
...apparent leader of the Algerian cell. Bensayah Belkacem, 41, alias Mejd, lived with his Bosnian wife and two children in the central town of Zenica until his arrest last month. Combing through his dingy ground-floor apartment, investigators found two sets of identity papers (Algerian and Yemeni), blank passports and on a small piece of paper the number of a senior bin Laden aide, Abu Zubaydah, himself a veteran of the Bosnian war. Investigators say he is now in charge of screening recruits for al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. According to phone transcripts, Zubaydah and Belkacem discussed procuring passports...
...receipt connects him to the hijackers, and he was inquiring about lessons well after the others had finished theirs. These same officials wonder if he may have been part of another radical cell. They now suspect that the 20th hijacker was meant to be RAMZI BINALSHIBH, 29, a Yemeni who once shared an apartment with ringleader Mohamed Atta. On Sept. 21, Germany issued a warrant for Binalshibh, naming him as an accomplice in the attacks. U.S. investigators believe Binalshibh tried to enter the U.S. to take his place among the hijackers but was denied a visa for unknown reasons...
...recognize the Taliban government, Saudi Arabia is in the hot seat. The U.S. military, which encamped in the nation during the Gulf War, has still not left. King Fahd welcomes it, but fundamentalists are furious--to say nothing of Osama bin Laden, a native Saudi and son of a Yemeni immigrant. Things got touchy last week when the U.S. asked for permission to launch strikes from a new Saudi air base and the Saudis, for now at least, balked. If a war places Saudi oil reserves at risk, the U.S. may dig in deeper, perhaps lighting fundamentalist fires...
...Australia, as well as local Bedouin tribesmen - recently completed another field season. But they estimate that it will take another 10 to 15 years just to uncover all the buildings at Mahram Bilqis and the surrounding pathways - and even then most of the site will remain unexplored. Eventually, the Yemeni government plans to restore and reconstruct the sanctuary in hopes of transforming it into what Glanzman calls "an eighth wonder of the world" - a tourist attraction comparable to the Pyramids or the Acropolis. (Yemen's political instability, though, makes that scenario unlikely anytime soon.) It also intends to petition unesco...