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...Muhajir was reportedly tracked following an arrest in Pakistan in April on a passport violation. The FBI and CIA (working together, please note) had followed him through Europe and onto a Chicago-bound plane from Zurich. (U.S. officials made sure airport security carefully check his belongings, particularly his shoes.) They arrested him immediately on landing in Chicago, hoping he would cooperate. (He hasn't, according to reports.) The decision to nab him early rather than monitor his movements in the hope of revealing a hidden network already operating in the U.S. also raises important questions. For one thing, it means...
...wife say the arrest was beneficial to him as a husband and a player because he learned to be more vocal and emotive, which in the process turned him into a team leader. In the past, he sulked on the bench and dealt with the threat of being unliked with silence, a strategy he says he copied from his reticent father. In Dallas, he didn't speak to Mavericks teammate Jimmy Jackson for six weeks following an argument and went two months without talking to his coach after a disagreement...
...arrest for domestic violence somehow humanized him, it also punished him in the way that must have hurt him most: he was no longer well liked. Phoenix fans were glad to see him go. And in the play-offs, he became a target of Boston rooters' chants of "wife beater." It got so bad in Game 4 that Joumana and T.J. decided to stay in New Jersey for Game...
Fast-forward to the present, to an era when terrorism is a global nightmare. Surprisingly, Aum lives on. True, many members quit after the atrocity, which led to the arrest and prosecution of Asahara and 18 others. But hundreds more (1,186 according to the group; hundreds more than that, according to police who watch them) stuck with it. And additional cults are springing up, offering refuge to disillusioned youth in a Japan that, owing to a pervasive sense of economic doom, is searching for its soul. By one government estimate, there are more than 10,000 "new religions...
...Speculation over a possible al Qaeda nuclear threat has mounted since John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Abdullah Al Mujahir, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago street gang member for allegedly conspiring with al Qaeda to detonate a diry bomb inside...