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...lawmaker Paulo Pedroso, who spent four months in preventive custody in connection with a pedophile scandal involving state-run children's homes. Pedroso, who is suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, resumed his seat in parliament after the body's ethics committee reinstated him. Predictable Poll CHECHNYA Kremlin-backed candidate Akhmad Kadyrov was elected President with more than 80% of the vote. His victory was widely expected as his main rivals were pressured into withdrawing early in the race...
...soon after Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater; after a three-day siege, 129 died as Russian special forces used a sedative gas to storm the building. Ivanov now says it would be "irresponsible to confine the armed forces' prerogatives to the realm of external operations," adding that - as Chechnya proves - it's impossible to separate foreign and domestic threats. He also said the Russian military must be prepared to fight "two conflicts of any type" simultaneously, as well as carry out peacekeeping operations anywhere in the world. That's a tall order for a military that can barely handle...
...shabby, multiethnic west London shopping mall, robed men sit placidly at a stall offering Islamist pamphlets and videos on Shari'a law or jihad in Chechnya. They hope a black Islamic flag and a display of postcard-size stickers advertising a conference on Sept. 11 will attract the curious. On closer inspection, it is clear the conference's message will be anything but passive. The stickers at the al-Muhajiroun group's stall depict THE MAGNIFICENT 19, a lineup of the 9/11 hijackers set against New York City's burning Twin Towers and a smiling Osama bin Laden...
...strike in Iraq, the newest "field of jihad." That phrase, redolent of Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Kashmir, Indonesia and others. The extremists will fight and die to evict "infidel" forces from those places, including any Muslim government they consider apostate...
...brief recording session until the song - featuring her heavily remixed warbling - rocketed up the Serbian charts. The fearless, seize-any-opportunity attitude that launched her short-lived pop career has made Seierstad, 33, perhaps the best-known journalist in Scandinavia. She has reported from such hot spots as Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq - picking up several languages and awards along the way. She covered the war in Iraq for an assortment of newspapers and radio and television networks. Scandinavian viewers rushed to their sets each morning to see how Seierstad, holed up in Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, had fared. "With...