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...November 2001 the CIA deployed the drone to eliminate bin Laden's lieutenant, Mohammed Atef. Last November's Predator hit in Yemen killed an al-Qaeda commander and his entourage of five, though the strike was controversial: one of the dead men turned out to be a U.S. citizen...
...charges against him to be dropped. Ibrahim, who teaches at Cairo's American University, says he "was humbled and heartened by the support I got worldwide." He holds a U.S. passport but says he "did not ask the U.S. to interfere on my behalf although I am a dual citizen. I wanted to keep the battle lines clear and clean. I was fighting an Egyptian cause as an Egyptian on Egyptian soil." When the White House informed President Hosni Mubarak last August that Ibrahim's conviction jeopardized aid, Egyptians condemned the U.S. for meddling. The head-scratching continues in Cairo...
...Hirschfeld also had genes and the stars on his side. He was born on the longest day of the year (June 21, 1903) to a mother who lived to 91 and a father who lived to 93 - a father who, Hirschfeld said, invented the term "senior citizen." In America, or the more empyrean realm of art, few citizens were more senior than Al, none more youthful, cogent, articulate or productive. Over the years, his witty hand had fashioned some 12,000 drawings...
...assertion was so closely linked to the merits of the cases that it, too, should be considered. Sergei Mironov, head of the Federation Council, the upper house of the federal parliament, said appeals by Chechens to the European Court would not reflect badly on Russia's image, adding: "Any citizen has the right to defend himself this way." Long a thorn in Russia's side, Chechnya declared independence in 1991, and was granted substantial autonomy in 1996. It has remained a battleground, both with Russia and over human-rights issues. In the cases accepted in Strasbourg, Magomed Khashiyev and Roza...
DETENTION UPHELD. In the case of YASER ESAM HAMDI, 22, a Louisiana-born man captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan and now held in a Navy brig in Norfolk, Va.; by an appeals court in Richmond. The court ruled that the government can detain a U.S. citizen captured in an overseas battle indefinitely if the military declares him an "enemy combatant...