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...statement followed Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision not to respond publicly to a Chechen appeal to reduce the minimum age requirement in the constitution - set at 30 - in order to allow for Ramzan's candidacy. Warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for Akhmad's May 9 murder. Security Crackdown EGYPT Officials arrested 54 members of the Muslim Brotherhood organization on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for jihad in Iraq , Chechnya and Palestine . Officials claimed that the Brotherhood - legally banned since 1954 - was hoping to train the members to eventually return home to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Senior Brotherhood leader...
...quell a separatist uprising in the region. With last week's assassination of Moscow's hand-picked Chechen President, Akhmad Kadyrov, Putin might also have remarked that his strategy for pacifying Chechnya looked pretty horrible too. But Kadyrov's murder gives Putin a choice: he can launch yet another crackdown or finally try a new approach. Judging from his comments last week, he's not sure which way to go. Kadyrov, who fought alongside rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov before shifting his allegiance to the Russians in 1999, came to power last October in an election the human-rights organization Moscow...
...events has combined to breathe new life into the dying embers of the southern Muslims' separatist cause. First came the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. and the accompanying global revival of radical, jihadist Islam, fueled by the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Coupled with that was a crackdown in Malaysia that saw many militants fleeing back across the notoriously porous border into southern Thailand. But the biggest factor, say critics of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has been the central government's hardball approach to the south since he came to power...
...indecency cops seem to be expanding their beat to cover the nation's roads, and they are hoping to recruit real cops to their cause: a crackdown on "drive-by porn"--that is, folks playing blue movies in their cars. Parents whose kids have been exposed to the stuff by seeing the images as they pass a car are urging lawmakers to curb the road shows. A Tennessee measure banning the display of externally visible, "obscene or patently offensive" video in cars passed the senate last March and is expected to become law on July 1. A councilwoman in Flint...
AFTER YOU HAD FINISHED YOUR ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY, THERE WAS A CRACKDOWN ON CUBAN DISSIDENTS, AND HBO MADE YOU ADDRESS THE ISSUE. WERE YOU UPSET...