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...ENNOBLED. CONRAD BLACK, 57, with the award of a seat in the British House of Lords; in London. Black is a millionaire newspaper magnate whose holdings include the Daily Telegraph in London and the Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often criticized in Black's papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud...
Being cautious, and even being critical, of the military campaign does not make you unpatriotic. On the contrary, staying informed is a necessary ingredient of citizenship, and having open dialogues on governmental policy is about as American as it gets. Questioning the American exit strategy in this war, an exit strategy that presidential candidate Bush guaranteed would be a component of any military action, does not mean you are heartless. It simply means you don’t want to see the tragedies of Sept. 11 turn into another Vietnam...
...suggestions as well: As he lauded the nation's "new heroes" - firefighters, police, teachers, members of the armed services and postal workers - he called on everyone to engage in volunteer work and even enroll in an expanded Americorps. "We are a nation," he said, "awakened to service and citizenship and compassion...
...traditional "freedom under attack" and "good vs. evil" themes may play well at home, but they have little resonance in the wider world. And just as President Bush expects more action against terrorism from other countries, so do many of those countries expect more active and responsible global citizenship on the part...
...such preacher, Abu Hamza al-Masri, arrived in 1981, having left one eye and both hands in Afghanistan. He was granted British citizenship in 1985, and his mosque in Finsbury Park, tucked among Victorian row houses one tube stop from Arsenal's soccer stadium, has become famous worldwide for preaching jihad. Moussaoui, the Courtailler brothers and Beghal all attended prayers there. Beghal is said also to be a follower of Abu Qatada, a radical who preached jihad from a community center on Baker Street and whose bank account, allegedly with $270,000 in it, was frozen by the Bank...