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...extraordinary potential of their project.Sam “Squeak E. Clean” Spiegel and Ze “DJ Zegon” Gonzales named their collaboration N.A.S.A.—which stands for North America/South America—to reflect the combination of L.A.-based Spiegel’s specialty in hip-hop and the strong influence of Gonzales’s hometown of São Paolo. The pronounced base line of Brazilian funk is one of the few consistencies on this album, a project five years in the making that features close to 40 artists...
...Next came a Washington Post investigation into the life and death of Abdallah Saleh al-Ajmi. Upon his release in November 2005 after four years at Gitmo, al-Ajmi became a suicide bomber, eventually driving an explosive-laden truck into an Iraqi army base near Mosul last March, killing 13 Iraqi soldiers and injuring many more. This, exclaimed the pro-Gitmo group, was proof positive that detainees should not be released. (See pictures of prison life inside Baghdad's Camp Cropper...
...backgrounds—with “Nobel Prize-winning professors sitting next to a burned out hippie sitting next to a street person”—an onslaught of commercialization has led to a shift in the makeup of the Square’s customer base...
...which there have been more than 30 since August. Pakistan's governments have ritually condemned the attacks as "counterproductive," going as far as to summon the U.S. ambassador on one occasion. However, after Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently revealed to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the drones operate from a base inside Pakistan, it has emerged that the attacks carry Islamabad's silent imprimatur...
...minister in the government of President Pervez Musharraf and a current senior government official have confirmed that the previous government agreed to allow the CIA to target militants operating on Pakistani soil. Both sources refused to be named because of the sensitivity of the information. "Musharraf gave them the base in Shamsi [in a remote part of Baluchistan] to use for drones, logistics, everything," says the current government official, who insists that the air strikes are "counterproductive" because they inflame public opinion against Islamabad's alliance with Washington. "We have inherited all these problems from the previous government. There...