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Interesting article ... from October 2001. In other news, oil is $144 a barrel.
1 FaverShareViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: ''If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap,'' said Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington. ''He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel'' -- about six times what it sells for now.
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1 FaverShareViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: A woman's role, he said on the Internet audio recording, is limited to caring for the homes and children of al Qaeda fighters. His remarks have since prompted an outcry from fundamentalist women, who are fighting or pleading for the right to be terrorists.
1 FaverShareViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: If you set aside the war in Iraq, terrorism has in fact gone way down over the past five years.
1 FaverShareQuoted: (Adds tribunal background, ACLU comment, paragraphs 9-12) By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it dropped charges against a Saudi who U.S. officials say intended
In 2006, Ambassador (Ret.) Prudence Bushnell, Ambassador to Kenya at the time of the U.S. Embassy bombing in 1998, approached the Oklahoma City National Memorial with the challenge of developing a process that could assist communities in the wake of a massive disaster.
1 FaverShare1 FaverShareQuoted: Oh no, the virtual terrorists are coming to get us! Well, maybe. Congress, in its infinite wisdom, had an entire hearing about virtual worlds and terrorism, even calling in the
So they killed at least two people because the film equated Islam with violence. How do they not get it?
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesQuoted: A few days after the anti-Islam film “Fitna” was released on the Internet, the Afghan Taliban claim to have attacked Dutch forces in Afghanistan on Sunday. ...The Taliban have declared on the Internet that they launched the two fatal attacks against Dutch soldiers as a response to Geert Wilders' short film that, they say, insulted Islam.
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