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We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [-] service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.
The Globe and Mail said that NATO's motives had been good--"it wanted to stop Mr. Milosevic, protect the Albanians and save its own reputation in the bargain.
Paz's father worked in turn with the anarchist peasant guerrilla leader Emiliano Zapata, who wanted Mexico to return to its pre-Hispanic, agricultural roots.
He wanted to come home the first day he got off the slopes, but Sandy Trombetta, the clinic organizer and recreation therapist at the Grand Junction VA Medical Center, convinced Urban to try again.
The participants wanted to convey the notion that they were not concerned with language.