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...case is being taken seriously because seven of the Sept. 11 hijackers--including four Saudis--studied in U.S. flight schools. A lawyer engaged by the Saudi embassy says she knows of no one who is being held as a possible national-security threat as a result of the immigration crackdown. --By Elaine Shannon
...ruling party, the BJP, reveres Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and his writings on India's growing self-confidence, in part because the esteemed author appears to sanction the party's Hindu-nationalistic agenda. So it must have stung last week when Naipaul expressed "profound disappointment" with the government's crackdown on news website Tehelka. The muckraking site made a splash nearly two years ago with a sting operation that exposed Defense Ministry officials accepting bribes. After promising to investigate the matter, a government commission has done little since but investigate Tehelka and freeze the assets of its financier, nearly squeezing...
...group are so-called Chechen Islamists, an international mix of al-Qaeda operatives (including many North Africans) trained in Afghanistan as well as in camps set up in the Caucasus before the Sept. 11 attacks. The al-Qaeda camps in Georgia's Pankisi Valley - which until a Georgian security crackdown last year was a lawless haven of guerrillas, drug dealers and kidnappers - specialize, says Jacquard, in training recruits in the use of explosives and in basic chemical terror, including the poisoning of water and food supplies. Indeed, Georgian security sources say the al-Qaeda operatives in the Pankisi region...
...there was one, heaped praise on Mitzna. The price for this return to Zionism is being paid by Israel's 1.2 million Arab citizens. During Israel's first two decades, the country's Arabs lived under martial law. Sharon's not there yet, but he's overseeing a divisive crackdown on the Arabs, who prefer to be called "Palestinians inside Israel," almost as much of a throwback as Lahav's songs. Even before the crackdown, life was tough for Israel's Arabs. The 10 Israeli communities with the highest unemployment rates are all Arab. They're dilapidated assortments of cinderblock...
...That stalemate has European and Arab allies - and even Israeli doves - exasperated over the refusal of the Bush Administration to aggressively pursue a peace plan. Instead, the Administration has broadly backed Sharon's crackdown on Palestinians and his insistence on an end to violence as a precondition for any political process, while occasionally drawing red lines such as insisting that Sharon refrain from banishing Arafat from the West Bank...