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...major presence in Indonesia. They pressed her to arrest Islamic militants they believed were linked to Osama bin Laden's network, including Abubakar Ba'asyir, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, a radical Islamic group suspected of terrorist attacks across the region. Two days before the bombings, U.S. Ambassador Ralph Boyce told Megawati that if she did not begin cracking down, the U.S. would close its embassy, which might drain Indonesia of American investment and devastate its economy. "We put it to them very hard," says a senior State Department official...
...under arrest. But the Bali attacks suggest it may be too late to prevent al-Qaeda from making the vast Indonesian archipelago a new sanctuary. "We've been talking with them for a long time about the seriousness of the problem," Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, a former ambassador to Indonesia, told TIME. "There's obviously a lot more to do, and maybe this will serve as a wake-up call for them...
...when the party hewed to the left on most social issues, Mondale is likely to pick up Wellstone's liberal banner as his own. Then again, that may be pure speculation based on his prior voting record: His most recent political tour of duty was as President Clinton's ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996, and while Mondale has remained active on the Minnesota political landscape, his positions on current issues are not widely known...
Makiya has been in contact with the department’s key Iraq policy advisor, Ryan Crocker, who has served as a U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Qatar...
Spears should help many fans with their homework in the future. Comments Hepburn on the phenomenon he created: “I hope that Britney does not mind being an ambassador of science and that the fan part of the site promotes her every endeavor in the future.” Heterojunction me, baby, one more time...