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...Initially arrested in November on immigration violations, French nationals Bassam Ayachi and Raphael Gendron were remanded in custody on Tuesday and charged with terrorism offenses after Italian authorities established their ties to an extremist network operating in France and Belgium. The Italian magistrates in charge of the investigation say evidence collected against the two men indicates they had "planned and organized terrorist attacks and guerrilla actions." Ayachi, 62, who was born in Syria, was previously known to authorities as a radical imam who oversaw a reputedly extremist mosque in Belgium. Like Ayachi, Gendron - described as a 33-year old computer...
...troops. That also goes for violence in general," says Ahmed Hassan al-Massoudi, a member of parliament aligned with radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. "I don't think 9,000 is a reason to worry, because you can see these numbers in other civilized countries," says Ahmed Bassam Mohammed, a police lieutenant and former member of an Awakening council in Baghdad. "For example in the United States you might have such numbers from murders and robberies...
Tempers flared among residents of Baghdad on Friday as word spread of Iraq's disqualification from the 2008 Summer Olympics. "I am really angry because this is an international competition and it should be legal for us to compete," says Bassam Ahmed, a shopkeeper in Iraq's capital. "It's very important for a country like Iraq. We would like others to see that Iraq can produce some good athletes, in spite of the situation...
...high-profile tour of Europe and the Middle East, Iraq seems unsure of just how to receive him. "Obama is a well-liked person. You feel it when he talks because he's genuine and passionate about what he says - he's not acting," says supermarket attendant Bassam Obeid in central Baghdad. "But this visit is just for election publicity, and 16 months [for U.S. combat troop withdrawal] is an exaggeration." Leila Mohammed, a housewife in Baghdad's Karrada district, also shrugged at the significance of the visit, the first Obama will make to the war zone since clinching...
...places where censorship reigns, Shakespeare can say what others cannot. Kuwaiti director Sulayman Al-Bassam uses him for subversive ends. "If you are an Arab theater maker looking to take a pop at authority, Shakespeare is your perfect bedmate, co-conspirator and alibi," he has said. Such is the yearning for catharsis in the Middle East that, when he took his Richard III to Egypt, it provoked a near riot among people who couldn't get tickets...