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...were seized along with the scientist's son, an unemployed Pakistani man, Ahmed Afzal Qudoos. "We have finally apprehended Khalid Shaikh Mohammed," boasted Pakistani presidential spokesman Rashid Qureshi. "He is the kingpin of al-Qaeda." Sources tell TIME that agents had been led to his hideout through the earlier arrest of an Egyptian in Quetta who had been in contact with Mohammed. Neighbors, wary of the lone Arab who appeared in their working-class area, tipped off the police, hoping for a reward. Phone records led them to Rawalpindi, where investigators say Mohammed had been hiding for 10 days before...
...book's backdrop?the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during the war?is familiar material. But Otsuka, through various devices such as the use of characters without names, manages to make universal the psychological torment of wartime prejudice without wallowing in sentimentality. Starting with the arrest of the father of the clan in a midnight FBI raid, Otsuka spins out the story from the perspective of each family member. First, the characters lose their freedom as they are trucked off to a camp in desolate Utah. Ultimately, they lose their identity, returning to their vandalized home...
Nyarota, who founded his independant newspaper, The Daily News, in 1999, was issued an arrest warrant on Feb. 28 by a Harare Court after he failed to appear to face charges of “abusing journalistic privileges and publishing falsehoods...
...issuing of a warrant of arrest across the Atlantic is, therefore, less terrifying an experience than being dragged from bed at midnight...by complete strangers,” Nyarota said...
...Cracking down on gangsters and corruption appeals to a population that has resigned itself to these twin evils, and following Cam's arrest, Saigon's newspapers went into a muckraking frenzy, openly asking how far the corruption went and who might be the next government figure to be arrested. After 6 months of that, the government decided that openness about official corruption might not be in the Party's best interest. On June 2002, Vietnam's ideology chairman, Nguyen Khoa Diem, ordered newspapers to tone it down. "They're afraid people are losing their faith in the government," explains...