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...Iraq today there's every reason to brace for the worst. The country was still reverberating last week from the shock of the attacks on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf when an explosion rocked the headquarters of the new Iraqi police force in Baghdad, killing one and injuring more than 20. Some Iraqis blamed loyalists of Saddam Hussein for the blast. But the bombing also bolstered fears about the deadly threat posed by small bands of foreign jihadists who have infiltrated the country with the intent of exploiting Iraqi discontent to launch...
...only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need to understand the universe. The system of belief is summed up this way by student Syed Ayaz Ali Shah: "Since the days of the Prophet, there are only two forces on earth, Muslims and infidels. And their fight will go on until Judgment...
...snaking above each eye - scars from the gym. He began to learn to box in 1998, when he was "looking down at the abyss of middle age and not fancying the drop." He heard about white-collar fights at New York's Gleason's Gym - once home of Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson - and flew over to box a dentist (yes, a dentist) in March 1999. Upon his return home, acquaintances ventured they'd like a shot at the sweet science. So in July 2000, he organized Capital Punishment, which pitted Londoners (among them a company director and a lawyer...
...daughter of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, once the Prime Minister of Pakistan ... Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom she had met only twice before. The prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player ... The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they...
...CHARGED. Maizuru Haiji Abduallah, Mujahid Haiji Abdullah, Waehamadi Wadao, Saman Waekaj and Arifin Bin Ali, with plotting to bomb embassies and tourist spots; in Bangkok. Police allege that the four Thais and one Singaporean are members of Jemaah Islamiah, the regional terrorist group allegedly behind the Bali bombing in October 2002. Police say the men planned to blow up the American, Australian, British, Israeli and Singaporean embassies in Bangkok, as well as tourist attractions in the Thai capital, Phuket and Pattaya...