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...were telephoned at home and told not to go to work the next day. A State Department official refused to explain the warning, but a Western intelligence officer in Africa told TIME the alarm was raised after a phone call from an al-Qaeda operative to a number in Cape Town was intercepted - a call in which an attack on U.S. government buildings in South Africa was discussed. No attack took place, and after three days, the embassy in Pretoria and three consulates reopened. But with South Africa expecting half a million fans for the soccer World Cup this June...
...Shabab's Long Reach If Somalia's extremists are becoming an international threat, that's partly because of their cosmopolitan leadership. One sure result of war is refugees, and decades of fighting in Somalia have seen the rapid growth of a large Somali diaspora in places from Cape Town to Minneapolis. But not all who have been forced to make new lives far away from Africa have done so easily. The past few years have seen the arrival in Somalia of 200 to 300 young ethnic Somali men from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Norway and Sweden, migrants' children returning...
...November, 14 Minnesota men with connections to Somalia were charged with offenses like aiding a terrorist organization; four have pleaded guilty. In August, Australian police arrested five men from the Somali community in Melbourne on suspicion of plotting to attack an army barracks outside Sydney. The September call to Cape Town was picked up because a group of ethnic Somalis in the city were already under surveillance on suspicion of raising funds for al-Shabab, according to the intelligence officer. "If you've been waiting for a moment to declare Somalia a priority threat, what else do you need?" asks...
...also an encyclopedic connoisseur, scholar and rescuer of old movies - a video savant - who makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie. Now Scorsese has taken on psychological horror, adding a filigree of frissons from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Val Lewton's artful B movies of the 1940s to Lehane's already dense thicket of chills...
...sound of the Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House has always run counter to its name. Full of cold, echoing vocals and propelled by a lulling drone, Beach House songs are more March in Montauk than July on the Cape. But Teen Dream, the band's third and most accomplished album, takes one step closer to the sun. Warm guitars, swoon-inducing melodies--why, the whole thing's positively springlike. You can almost forgive the pair the cruel joke of releasing it in the dead of winter...