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...cell, including Samarn Wae-kaji, believed by police to be an expert bomb builder who honed his skills under Arifin, who is a graduate of a terror training camp in the Philippines. "Don't worry, we'll catch him," says Major General Chumpon Manmai, Thailand's special branch police commissioner. The notion that there are terrorists in Thailand for him to catch is not so ridiculous anymore...
...don’t think that people knew quite what to do with Arthur,” says Richard Anders ’79, Golden’s best friend. “He was the kid brother of one branch of the family, sitting at home writing a book...about a Geisha—and all of a sudden he’s a famous author...
...controversies are brewing on other fronts. Last week a group of Baghdad health-care workers gathered in front of the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, to protest the Americans' appointment of Ali Shnan al-Janabi as Health Minister. The workers opposed al-Janabi because he is a branch member of the Baath Party and is suspected of taking money and gifts from the regime. At the State Oil Marketing Organization, a former director says he is refusing to return to work under the U.S.-appointed head of the Oil Ministry, Thamer Ghadhban, because of the man's Baathist...
Either of those cases could wind up in the Supreme Court. "To say that the Executive Branch on its own determination can pick somebody up and hold them indefinitely without any procedure or access to a court or to counsel or the press is an absolutely staggering thought," says Stephen Schulhofer, a law professor at New York University and the author of The Enemy Within, a book produced for the Century Foundation, that examines post-9/11 questions of civil liberty. The Attorney General insists that misses the larger point. "There are no civil liberties that are more important than...
...paranoia. President Bush has a habit of inspiring the American people through fear. He has no place among the august ranks of real leaders. It pains me that our elected officials have the ability to manipulate the American populace through fear, the lowest common denominator. KEN RICHLIN Long Branch...