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...weeks after the Singapore plot was foiled, according to an FBI report, a meeting of terrorists took place in a village in southern Thailand. The gathering was held at the behest of Riduan Isamuddin, a leader of an organization based in Indonesia called Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) that has long been suspected of acting as a cover for terrorist acts. Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, fought in Afghanistan with the anti-Soviet mujahedin in the 1980s and is wanted by authorities in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. He was last seen in January 2001, when Indonesian authorities sought his arrest...
...politicians on the general's behalf. It is unlikely that Jamali, a bearish, jovial man, will be able to do so. He won just 172 of the 329 votes cast. And even that thinnest of margins was suspect: a rule forbidding party defections was waived at Musharraf's behest, so that 10 PPP legislators could switch sides and back the army's man. "Democratic values have failed today," lamented Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the PPP's losing prime ministerial candidate, who claims his supporters were either threatened or offered top government jobs in return for crossing over. These legislators countered...
...English department chose merely to rescind an offer of official University recognition. Nothing prevents Paulin from airing his views in whatever venues he can find. This campus has seen many inflammatory and bombastic speakers throughout the years, but they have come to our community at the behest of student groups. Ann Coulter, who at one time advocated the slaughter of Afghani leaders and an installation of a “Christian” govemment, has been able to air her views, but her invitation came from the Harvard Republican Club, not an academic department...
...behest of Head Teaching Fellow Jennifer Davis, he announced the honor to students at his class lecture...
...scholarly community must never forget that they serve at the behest of a non-academic public,” Kaufman says. “The more academics speak to public concern, whether through their scholarly work or merely as sometime pundits, the more the public will endorse the basic goals of the academy...