Word: arrestingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does now. Mas Selamat was captured in Indonesia in February. Information gleaned from his subsequent interrogation in Singapore triggered the recent arrest of the three Thais. The network exposed by Thai authorities now reveals that, despite Thaksin's initial assurances to the contrary, Thailand has played unwitting host to JI regional operatives...
...said last week that Selamat and his colleagues were planning the bombings to coincide with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, when the heads of state, including U.S. President George W. Bush, were supposed to gather in Thailand. But the plan was aborted, police say, following the May 16 arrest in Bangkok of the cell's suspected chief planner, Singaporean Arifin bin Ali, who also goes by the alias John Wong Ah Hung. Arifin, it is now known, was one of the accomplices who entered southern Thailand with Mas Selamat in December...
...kills. "He was a hit man, too, sent down from Lahore by a rival political party to get me," the assassin recalls. Except that the assassin tracked the newcomer down first, gunning him down at a crowded intersection. He adds, "The cops don't arrest the criminals; they only arrest the weakest." This allegation is echoed by a top police officer. He explains that often when a murder occurs, "We'll grab somebody?anybody?and beat him until he confesses and even starts blaming his own mother...
...Ismail. As the U.N.'s special envoy to Burma, Razali argued that it was possible to engage the ruling generals in dialogue. His softly-softly approach seemed to yield results. A year ago, he brokered the release of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi after 19 months of house arrest and secured what he thought was a firm commitment from junta boss General Than Shwe to negotiate with her about the country's political future. But last Saturday, Razali was back to square one, struggling once again to persuade the generals to release Suu Kyi after they stashed...
...conditions that led to the 1988 democracy uprising, which the military brutally crushed. "The generals saw her crowds growing larger," says a diplomat, "and decided they had to stop it." Now, Burma has been locked down. The military has shut all NLD offices nationwide, put party leaders under house arrest and closed universities?traditional flash points of protest. Witnesses to the attack are in hiding and being hunted by security forces. And the generals? Says Aung Zaw, a Burmese opposition figure in exile in Thailand: "They will hang on to the last bullet...