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...PLEADED GUILTY. SAAJID BADAT, 25, British-born student and co-conspirator of shoe bomber Richard Reid; to plotting to blow up a U.S-bound airliner; at the Central Criminal Court, in London. Badat was accused of planning to detonate an explosive device in his shoe on a flight to the U.S.?the same strategy as Reid's, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. following his own botched attempt in December 2001?but Badat never carried out his mission. Awaiting sentencing on March 18, Badat could face extradition to the U.S. on seven charges, including terrorism and plotting...
When Hassan Butt, a 24-year-old British Pakistani, enters a curry restaurant in Manchester, an industrial city in northern England, he is greeted as a minor celebrity, the other diners nodding and smiling at him. He is the former Lahore spokesman for al-Muhajiroun, an extremist group based in Britain. Since his falling-out with the group, the British-born Butt has had his passports impounded and is under surveillance. "I would fit into being called a radical, and one day, God willing, even to be called a terrorist, if Allah permits me," Butt says. "This is something...
...around London, 700 police officers swooped down on 24 addresses, detaining eight terrorist suspects--mostly British-born Pakistanis--and recovering 1,000 lbs. of a bombmaking chemical in a storage facility. A British official said the arrested have no proven ties to al-Qaeda but then suggested the suspects probably have "overseas links." And Italian cops conducted a "preventive" sweep, taking 90 Islamic extremist suspects into custody...
...DIED, GORDON ONSLOW FORD, 90, last surviving member of the Surrealist school of painters; in Inverness, California. The British-born painter studied in Paris during the 1930s, where he met Chilean painter Roberto Matta, who introduced him to the Surrealist group lead by André Breton...
...Storyteller's Daughter, British-born Afghan Saira Shah is unable to deliver as much insight as Seierstad does into the culture of her "lost homeland." Shah's uneven account of her attempts to reconcile the enchanting Afghanistan of her exiled father's tales with her own harrowing encounters relies on clich?d Western stereotypes: the Taliban are evil oppressors, the mujahedin noble warriors. Few of her subjects come across as real?which is precisely what makes Seierstad's nuanced portraits so compelling. While traveling with her romanticized mujahedin, for example, Shah is devastated to learn that they have been selling...