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...with him schemes ranging from "dirty bombs" to blowing up gas stations - discussions which some captive terrorist leaders appear to have shared with U.S. agents. So Padilla flew back to Chicago under U.S. surveillance, and into the waiting arms of the FBI. That was a month ago; the story broke this week because the authorities had to move him out of the criminal justice system and into military detention, for lack of evidence (at least evidence which the government would be willing to reveal to a judge) to support keeping him in prison. By week's end, the nation...
...which fuels Pakistan's claim over the territory. Hindu India, anxious to prove its secular credentials, refuses to let go, clinging on with a mix of high-handed vote rigging and indifference to public opinion. For Muslim Pakistan, still smarting decades after the 1971 war in which India successfully broke Bangladesh--then East Pakistan--away from West Pakistan, Kashmir remains a call to arms, a national obsession and the one topic on which there is near unanimity. The cause is seen by some in Pakistan as a jihad, a holy war; it is viewed with clarity and single-mindedness...
...member FARC lost its sheen as a populist insurgency years ago because of its record of taxing and protecting the cocaine business and its penchant for gratuitous kidnapping and indiscriminate killing--like last month's bombing massacre of 119 villagers in a church. When the government broke off fruitless peace talks with the rebels in February, Colombians' exasperation catapulted Uribe's candidacy. His chief promise: to professionalize Colombia's weak and inept military and double its size to more than 100,000 fighters...
...European Central Bank to meet its goal of 2% inflation across the 12 countries in the euro zone by bringing down the prices of imports. That might allow the E.C.B. to cut interest rates, now 1.5% higher for short-term securities than in the U.S. The euro last week broke through the psychologically important barrier of 94?, its highest level since March 2001. But that's still way off the $1.17 the currency fetched when it was launched in January, 1999. Hans-Werner Sinn, chief of the German IFO economic think tank, said last week that he foresaw the euro...
Fuller and Lambert, along with senior Shawn Parker and junior Sean Meeker, made up the Crimson 4x100 relay team in the outdoor season that broke the school record several times—the best performance being a 40.72-second mark in a second-place finish at Heps...