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...Milan last April, Italian prosecutor Dambruoso issued a warrant for another figure associated with the cell, Tarek Maaroufi, referred to in Italian court papers as one of the "spiritual heads of the Salafist Group with a basic function of indoctrinating recruits." But Maaroufi lives in Belgium as a Belgian citizen, and no European Union country extradites its own citizens. The Belgian authorities contend that the Italians have not provided sufficient grounds for his arrest, nor have they seen fit to hand over his dossier to a Belgian prosecutor. A Belgian court found Maaroufi guilty in 1998 of criminal association connected...
...Maaroufi, a hotly pursued terrorist in Italy, lives freely but under surveillance in Brussels. He heads a nonprofit organization of his own design, "the Institute for the Research and Study of Civilization." He says he researches Islam with funds solicited from Muslims in local mosques. "I am a Belgian citizen, and I respect the Belgian law," he insists. Maaroufi has acknowledged that he has visited the apartment of the arrested Tunisians in Milan, and he told Time he had traveled to Afghanistan last November, "but that doesn?t mean I know bin Laden...
...Tuesday the city was in a sports frenzy. Washington D.C.?s most famous citizen showed up. So did the President. With Michael Jordan downtown making his third basketball comeback against the Knicks, President Bush choppered in to the South Bronx to toss the first ball, two days after the government issued a warning about a new round of terrorist attacks. Ticket scalpers were having an early Christmas. While Bush was heaving a floater over for a strike, fans were still lined up outside, impatiently waiting to get through an army of cops and metal detectors and into the ballparks...
...necessity—to follow suit when the U.S. takes a stance on foreign affairs. Economically it acknowledges its near-total dependence on US markets. And in a famous survey a few years ago, residents chose Pamela Anderson as their country’s most distinguished citizen. None of these bodes well for Canadians’ sense of self-determination, not to mention their self-esteem...
...Real Met fans have realized that the vast majority of Yankee fans are obnoxious jerks. We’ve realized that the presence of the Yankees makes finding counterfeit Met caps at the corner store impossible and that there is nothing fun about being treated like a second-class citizen in your own city because you wear the orange and blue. So we’ve learned to root against the Yanks in the postseason, and you can tell who the real diehards are because they’ve continued to root against the Bronx Bombers in this, the city?...