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...local authorities loyal to President Hamid Karzai, and special forces regularly patrol Tirin Kot. Despite some reports of harassment and beatings by the town's police force, Talibs say their return has caused little friction. They are quite open about their Taliban affiliations. Afghan security officials admit they have neither the budget nor the reach to fully investigate these men for abuses during the Taliban period. Sardar Mohammed, head officer of Tirin Kot's district police force, says the Taliban foot soldiers are not a problem. "They surrendered and gave us their weapons. The senior commanders have all left." Secret...
...tend to admit people who were used to leading things,” he says...
...balance of power is clearly held by the colleges,” said Stephen Singer, the head college counselor at Horace Mann School in the Bronx. “They have the thing that all the kids want, and that’s the admit letter. If being admitted is an important thing, if people care about being admitted, then what difference does it make to Princeton and Brown’s daily existence that they are not a member of the national association...
With these arrests, the Justice Department is boasting that, for the first time since Sept. 11, it has detected and broken up an active al-Qaeda cell. Of course, officials admit there's no evidence the men were mounting an attack or stockpiling explosives or weapons. The suspects' friends and relatives insist that there is a misunderstanding, and so far prosecutors have only charged the group with providing "material support" to al-Qaeda, a crime carrying a maximum 15-year sentence. Still, local citizens provided tips, law-enforcement agencies shared information, and people kept their mouths shut until arrests were...
Muslims know it, but they don't want to admit that something is wrong with Islamic law, Shari'a. They fear that if they voiced their opinion, it would endanger Islam as a whole. How else to explain the support for the Shari'a court that sentenced Lawal to death by stoning as punishment for adultery and allowed the man she was involved with to walk free? As Jesus said, with regard to the woman caught in adultery, Any one of the executioners who has not sinned should be the first to cast a stone. BUNMI AKINSEMOLA Akure, Nigeria...