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Despite years of investigation into alleged abuse and death of prisoners in U.S. custody since 9/11, the only Americans held accountable have been the low-ranking "bad apples" convicted for the worst atrocities at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. No official blame has been assigned to higher-ups for abuses at Guantanamo or in Afghanistan, much less for crimes allegedly committed by U.S. personnel in various secret CIA prisons around the world. The Senate Armed Services Committee sought to correct that on Tuesday by holding the nation's first public hearing into who at the top should be held accountable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Answers on Detainee Abuse | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...Shady Connections A former Abu Sayyaf member says that, faced with the government's successes, the group is now waging a hearts-and-minds campaign of its own. "They are going back to basics, meaning recruitment and propaganda," the man says. "The goal is to avoid military confrontation for two years so their recruitment efforts will not be compromised. [Igasan] is busy recording audio and video propaganda messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning A War of Stealth | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Another concern for the government has been Abu Sayyaf's shifting alliances with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.), another Muslim independence movement of which Abu Sayyaf was an offshoot. The M.I.L.F. has been involved in on-off peace deals with Manila for almost a decade, though a special group set up in 2002 to facilitate intelligence-sharing between the M.I.L.F. and the government "atrophied in mid-2007," according to the International Crisis Group. In the past two years, M.I.L.F. members have rescued several Filipinos and foreigners kidnapped by bandits, and the organization remains in uneasy peace mode. But some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning A War of Stealth | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...race is on: if the defiance of men like Chief is to be encouraged, General Sabban and the country's armed forces must uproot the remnants of Abu Sayyaf, and do so before they lose their grip on the hearts and minds they've so lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning A War of Stealth | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...hottest part of the fastest-growing new energy source in the world. BCC Research, which charts technology markets, expects the global solar market to grow from $13 billion to $32 billion by 2012, with thin film expanding 45% a year. Masdar, the clean-energy arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, just announced that it will invest $2 billion in thin film. "Crystalline silicon has had its day," says Peter Harrop, chairman of the London-based research firm IDTechEx. "These new technologies will be taking over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solar Power's New Style | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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