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Sources: Cambridge Health Alliance (2); MSNBC (2); New York magazine (2); AFP...
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...suicide attack - a first for Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city - took place just moments before the scheduled start of a rally by lawyers protesting the rule of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Witnesses described to AFP a scene of carnage and mayhem, with dead and wounded scattered among debris and body parts across the square. "The target was the police force," Punjab Police Inspector General Nasim Ahmed told reporters at the scene. "Today's bombing was to demoralize the Punjab police, but it will not. They have given their lives while performing their duty...
Australian authorities still consider Hicks a threat today; earlier this month the Australian Federal Police (AFP) obtained a control order to ensure that he is monitored. Using letters written to his parents while he was in Afghanistan, the AFP describes Hicks as a devotee of al-Qaeda, who once wrote that Osama bin Laden was "a lovely brother" and declared, "Western society is controlled by the Jews." Under the control order, Hicks must report to a police station three times a week, use an AFP-approved SIM card in any mobile phone, and must not leave Australia...
...basis of the AFP's concerns, according to Terry Hicks, are just his son's "storytelling," and do not reflect the real David. "Nothing has been proven for what he's supposed to have done," Terry said on Saturday. Though Terry had once hinted that his son might make an apology to Australia, he now says David feels no need to do so: "He's done his time, and it's time for him to settle down...