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...area have been killed or arrested--a total of 70 men. With the Israeli army still in or around every West Bank town, it's no longer possible for cells to organize across different areas. They have to form and operate locally, which strains human resources. And with the crackdown's having removed so many leaders of the Izzedine al-Qassam military wing, political leaders who were not previously involved in terror attacks have been forced to fill the gap. One is Abdel Khaleq Natshe, 48, who headed the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron. After Defensive Shield, Israeli officials...
...This isn't the first time that the authorities in relatively prosperous Malaysia have conducted campaigns to eject illegal workers, who typically fill menial jobs in industries like construction. But the scale and severity of the current crackdown is unprecedented. Scores of illegal immigrants have been arrested; some have been sentenced to caning and lengthy prison terms. The harsh treatment has ignited a political and diplomatic firestorm. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo phoned Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to make a personal appeal for a moratorium on deportations of Filipinos. Amien Rais, speaker of the Indonesian Parliament, warned that Malaysia...
...least $16 million a year. That's why the U.N. panel investigating terror funding is urging closer scrutiny of charities suspected of diverting funds to Bin Laden's organization, and stricter financial and border controls by European nations. The U.S. Treasury Department, stung by the implication that the crackdown on al-Qaeda funding had stalled, rushed to reaffirm some of the important successes in interdicting millions of dollars of terrorist cash. But they also acknowledged the scale of the challenge described in the U.N. report...
...elected on Oct. 6, neither he nor second-ranked Ciro Gomes, the candidate of the Workers Front coalition, is regarded with much enthusiasm in Washington. A former metalworker known for probity, Lula insists he won't nix the capitalist reforms but will make them fairer--starting with a crackdown on Brazil's epic tax evasion...
...York City. China's abuse of psychiatry to detain and institutionalize its political opponents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, the report said. After declining from a peak in the 1960s, political psychiatry has been revived as a result of the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect. A Hong Kong court found 16 Falun Gong followers guilty of causing a public obstruction by demonstrating outside China's main office in the territory. INDONESIA Democratic Reform The world's most populous Muslim state abolished an electoral system that let President Suharto hold power...