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...Graham Greene novel, Phillip Noyce's intimate epic dramatizes the mundane face of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Its release has been delayed, but Oscar-minded Miramax had better get it out by the end of the year. As an Englishman whose political scruples lead him to abet murder, Michael Caine gives a suave, smartly controlled turn that is guaranteed a nomination...
...Attorney General John Ashcroft pursues his own job with equal zeal. Terrorists must be vanquished and lawyers who abet them punished...
...principle, the legal line for defense attorneys is clear; in practice things get fuzzy. Lawyers may properly defend clients against prosecution for past criminal conduct, but may not aid and abet new crimes being planned by these clients. Whether Stewart crossed this line will be decided by a jury in the months ahead...
...YEMEN: It's bin Laden's ancestral land and long a hideout for terrorists, who can gather comfortably in the mountainous hinterlands well beyond the government's control. Plenty of former mujahedin who came home from the anti-Soviet Afghan war took up the bandit life and now abet Islamic radicals, and al-Qaeda sympathizers are in the army and bureaucracy. Al-Qaeda operatives arrested for bombing the U.S.S. Cole in 2000 received false documents from a former mujahedin fighter working for the Yemeni government. The country, says a senior Western diplomat in the capital of Sana...
...Broader definition of "terrorism" and harsher penalties for perpetrators and those who aid and abet them...