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Since then the bile has only thickened. In the final days of the South Carolina primary, Bush supporters unaffiliated with his campaign passed around leaflets highlighting Cindy McCain's addiction long ago to painkillers and the family's adoption of a Bangladeshi girl. And although McCain doesn't believe Bush directed those attacks, the Governor's silence about them was as wounding as if he had. In New York the Bush campaign aired a radio ad that selectively picked from McCain's record to attack him as an opponent of breast-cancer research, an affront made worse by the Texas...
...Indian police Wednesday announced the arrest of four men -- including a Bangladeshi national who Indian authorities claim was working for Pakistani intelligence -- accusing them of planning to bomb the U.S. embassy on January 26. U.S. investigators have flown to India to interrogate the suspects. "It's too early to confirm that this is Bin Laden," says Dowell. But even if the India plot doesn't pan out, Bin Laden is likely to planning more dramatic attacks. Says Dowell, "He needs the publicity...
Abuses of contract workers are widespread. A recent scam involved offering Bangladeshis jobs supposedly paying $1,000 a month as security guards on Saipan (shamelessly described as "a train ride away from Los Angeles"). A $6,000 recruitment fee was demanded. "When we arrived here, suddenly there was no job," says Mohamed Feroj Ahmed, one of more than 100 Bangladeshis who wander the island, indebted but unable to find more than day labor. When told of the Bangladeshis' plight, Congressman Miller said, "How low do you have to get to rip off a Bangladeshi...
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...towns and villages that shelters more than 160,000 people, mostly Muslims. He and his allies, totaling about 25,000 men, rolled up a third of the pocket and drew to within two or three miles of the main U.N. camp at Coralici, where 1,300 poorly armed Bangladeshi peacekeepers are holed...