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...take some doing. Watai's surprise announcement last week is just the latest odd turn in the bizarre diplomatic and legal drama swirling around Fischer. After 12 years on the run from charges that he broke U.S. trade regulations, the 61-year-old chess genius is fighting attempts to deport him back to the U.S. after Japanese immigration authorities apprehended him on July 13 for traveling on an allegedly invalid passport. That collaring brought to a close one of the most famous (if not particularly intense) manhunts in recent American history...
...Ellwood said present government policy is not attuned to the needs of immigrants. He said our present policy is to either deport illegal immigrants, or to train immigrants and then ask them to return to their home countries. Illegal immigrants are also not legally able to obtain the same level of public education as citizens...
...initially blocked the law because of fears that increased immigration would open the country to terrorists. Schröder finally won agreement by accepting an opposition-backed measure to have all applicants screened by the security services; "preachers of hate" - an apparent reference to extremist Muslim clergy - can be deported even if they don't break the law. "In the future, it will be easier to deport foreigners who took part in training in terror camps or who incite hatred," said Günther Beckstein, Interior Minister of Christian Social Union-ruled Bavaria. That's got civil libertarians worried...
...early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign country ... [It] launched a secret program to harass his network ... The CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local security service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know 'exactly what each person was doing,' says an intelligence official, 'just that he was doing something with a terror organization, so we should disrupt...
...suspects preparing the attacks he had detailed. French officials say that having the three years to assemble a case against him has been crucial. "He continues to play the jihadist game," says one investigator. French officials are testing new, more aggressive techniques to thwart terrorism. One is to deport foreign militants following arrests for relatively minor offenses. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is thinking about extending the same approach to newly naturalized suspects, based on a year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve...