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That Imam Khomeini Square is so still borders on a minor miracle. Formerly known as Toopkhone, literally "cannon house," this square is one of Tehran's most storied, once the site of regal state ceremonies and Dar al-Funun, Iran's first modern college built in the 19th century. In recent years noble aspirations have been cast aside and Imam Khomeini Square has settled into its current role, a major south-central hub covered in ashen grey and lined on three sides by small shops and boarding houses for itinerant workers and their families. To the south of the square...
...indictment says Ghailani helped buy the Nissan truck used in the Dar es Salaam bombing and load it with explosives. The charges against him include murder, attacking civilians and destroying property...
...brief appearance in a crowded Manhattan courtroom, pleading not guilty to hundreds of charges related to the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and his alleged al-Qaeda ties. Ghailani, a Tanzanian believed to be 35 years old, is accused of scouting the American embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, assembling bomb materials and escorting a suicide bomber in advance of the attacks, which killed 11 in Dar es Salaam and more than 200 in Nairobi. He later fled to Afghanistan, where he allegedly served as a bodyguard and cook for Osama bin Laden and helped forge...
Vatican insiders know Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos well. The steely-eyed Colombian Cardinal, 79, served for nine years as head of the Congregation for Clergy, where in 2002 he drew the wrath of victims of American-priest sex abuse for denying that the Catholic Church had any particular problem with pedophiles in its ranks. But most of all, Castrillón is a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist. He was named by Pope John Paul II as the go-between in relations with fringe traditionalist groups like the Lefebvrites, whose official name is the Society...
...Ethiopians, know to their cost. Present day U.S. operations against the Islamists - publicly confined to air strikes, but also including some clandestine fighting on the ground - have killed two significant leaders, including the bomb-maker in the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania...