Republicans put Al Gore on notice that they intend to make an issue of the case this fall, but Democrats seemed just as caught up as the G.

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And thousands of miles away in Minneapolis, home to half of America's 75, 000 Somali immigrants, FBI agents began to notice that al-Barakaat had deposited into bank accounts enormous sums of cash that had been wired to an account in the United Arab Emirates, a nation not known for tight financial controls.

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This year, he already is drawing enough notice in states such as California, Oregon and Washington that he could spell potential trouble for Vice President Al Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

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