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That's all good news. More disheartening was news in January that the first person convicted under British laws targeting the preparation of terrorist acts was Sohail Qureshi, a 29-year-old dentist from London. That followed the arrest in Britain last summer of three doctors and an engineer on suspicion of attempting to strike Glasgow's airport with a car containing propane-gas canisters. This has challenged the stereotype of jihadis as disenfranchised madrasah students, presenting Europe with a troubling question: Why would those who have made a success of their professional lives be drawn to violent extremism...
...French government officials insist that even before the group's arrest by Chadian police on October 25, they cautioned Zoé's Ark against pursuing certain of their more audacious humanitarian projects in Chad, particularly what appeared to be clandestine adoption arrangements with families back in France. Because of that, it came as little surprise to many observers earlier this month when a French investigating magistrate named several members in the group as defendants in his case for "complicity in the illegal residence of foreign minors in France," "illegally exercising the role as intermediary towards adoption" and "fraud." With...
...incident started while the Iraqi police were on their way to fill up their cars with gas. The National Police stopped them, accused the Iraqi police of not carrying proper IDs and tried to arrest them. Shots were fired, punches thrown, and an Iraqi policeman had his cell phone and a Glock clip confiscated. "Most of them are drug-addicted criminals and work with militias," says Mohammad, the Iraqi police chief, of his National Police counterparts...
That's one reason the Jan. 22 sentencing?in a traditional U.S. courtroom?of Brooklyn, N.Y., native Jose Padilla to more than 17 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy has attracted attention. Soon after Padilla's arrest in 2002, he was designated an enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges?conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...
...worst days?and there have been plenty of late?Winehouse looks a safe bet for an early grave. After a 2007 full of well-chronicled erratic behavior ranging from mumbled concert performances to a drug arrest in Norway, her in-laws pleaded for a public boycott of her music so that she and her equally troubled husband, Blake Fielder-Civil?currently in jail for attempting to bribe a bartender he allegedly assaulted to drop the charges?might be deprived of the income they spend getting wasted. One day in December, Winehouse wobbled out of her London home...