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...government to recruit informers among Iraqi-Americans has an eerie similarity to the ill-fated TIPS program that the administration had to abandon after public outcry. The government should not be involved in recruiting informers and gathering information with specific threats of terrorist or criminal activity. Although every citizen should be vigilant of suspicious or threatening actions, America has a culture of openness and tolerance that would be poisoned by intense government surveillance measures. The fight against terrorism must go forward, but not at the expense of our Constitutional freedoms...
...drone fired its Hellfire missile into al-Harethi's car as it moved along a remote desert road east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, it also killed five other people--all of them al-Qaeda operatives, according to the U.S., one a man Yemen says was a U.S. citizen. He was not just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., outside Buffalo. The putative American in al-Harethi's entourage traveled under the name Ahmed...
...hotel coffee shops and soaring flyovers of China's booming cities. This kind of government is the opposite of the transparency that characterizes truly effective regimes in the new era of globalization. To be sure, there are sprouts of democracy here and there?village level elections, investigative media, and citizen suits against government offices. Even the Party Congress will see contests for some five percent of the seats in the central committee, which may?if the past is a guide?produce a few upsets...
...chilling account of the meeting in Thailand was given by one of those present, Mohammed Mansur (Sammy) Jabarah, a 20-year-old Kuwaiti-born Canadian citizen, who was arrested in Oman in April and is now being interrogated at an undisclosed location in the U.S. According to sources familiar with an FBI report of Jabarah's interrogation, details of his testimony?including the dramatic order by Hambali to target bars and nightclubs?were passed on by U.S. officials to all Southeast Asian governments in August, a full two months before the Bali attack...
...struggling are at the very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make...