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...later hatching the Bojinka Plot. That plot got busted on Jan. 6, 1995, when a chemical fire broke out in one of the bombmakers' apartments. Yousef fled Manila but was eventually picked up in Pakistan and sent for trial in the U.S. Masrie was detained in a general crackdown but was subsequently released. He left the Philippines for the first half of 1996, ostensibly looking for work in Lebanon. But since his return, he had worked for various employment agencies. The young Palestinian was also in contact with Selamah. Intelligence sources tell TIME one of the last cell-phone calls...
...They didn't undermine the festival but the protesting foreigners did show how thorough the domestic crackdown on Falun Gong has been. Most Chinese practitioners are in jail, and those still free are underground or closely watched. If they protest, their relatives or bosses are punished. "Holding local officials responsible for practitioners in their areas was a stroke of genius," says a Western diplomat who tracks religious issues. As a result, native Chinese haven't protested in Tiananmen Square in large numbers since January last year, when five people set themselves on fire...
...crackdown hasn't only targeted Falun Gong. A U.S. human rights organization last week publicized seven internal Chinese government documents that direct police not only to stamp out Falun Gong but to suppress unauthorized Roman Catholic and Protestant groups as well. The Vatican recently identified 33 Roman Catholic bishops and priests under detention or house arrest for maintaining allegiance to the Pope rather than to the Communist Party-approved church. And a Chinese court in December issued death sentences to five leaders of a 50,000-member evangelical Christian group?the South China Church?on charges of rape, although followers...
...most freedom-of-expression cases, the alleged offense was more flagrant than the Chomsky text that propelled Tas into court. In that March 2001 lecture, entitled "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" and delivered in Toledo, Ohio, the U.S. academic referred to Turkey's crackdown on its Kurdish population as "one of the most severe human-rights atrocities of the 1990s, continuing in fact." Chomsky also laid much of the blame for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds and the destruction of their villages - in "massive ethnic cleansing" - at the feet of the U.S., which provided Turkey...
...behind closed doors, he has refrained from publicly issuing decrees ordering the arrest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders or the disarming of Fatah militias. And in the absence of unambiguous public pronouncements by the chairman of the PA, Dahlan and Rajoub say it is difficult to sustain a crackdown. But Arafat remains reluctant to risk the ire of a substantial portion of Palestinian public opinion by openly declaring war on many of the forces that have been at the heart of the current intifada...