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...Roubaix gang. For now, four of the men-two from Bangladesh, one from Mali and another from India-are being held only on immigration violations, while another Bangladeshi has been charged with falsifying official documents. But the police are investigating whether Dumont, a French national of Algerian descent who lived in Japan on and off in 2002 and 2003, was setting up a terrorist ring in the country. The local press have reported that Dumont, who worked as a used-car exporter, opened a postal savings account in July 2002 and deposited or withdrew several thousands of dollars from...
...when Almeida gets mistaken for a terrorist--which happens about once a month, sometimes more. Since 9/11, he says, he has been followed by an Amtrak helicopter, questioned by police and rail workers and described to 911 dispatch as a "suspicious Middle Eastern male." Almeida is of Irish Catholic descent...
...questioned," laments Richard Maloney, spokesman for SEPTA, Philadelphia's public-transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone." Urban train buffs report being surrounded by police cars and customs agents. A Haverford College student of South Asian descent was detained last year by SEPTA police after he photographed a station--homework for an urban-history class, as it turned...
Since I'm of Indian descent, spicy foods have long been a part of my diet. The distinctive smell of curry often wafted through my childhood home as my mom prepared her deliciously spicy dishes, often served with a dose of "it's good for you." She is a fantastic cook, and it turns out she may have been right about the health benefits of curry as well. According to preliminary research presented last week at a meeting of the American Physiological Society, curcumin, which gives the curry spice tumeric its yellow color, may help protect the brain against Alzheimer...
Abizaid's brain is the fulcrum in the war on terrorism. He oversees the world's toughest "neighborhood," spanning 25 countries from the Horn of Africa to the Himalayas. An Arabic speaker of Lebanese descent, he won the U.S. military's most difficult job last July. Although troops embrace Abizaid's muddy-boots mien, his soft-spoken demeanor gives him a cerebral air more common to the campus than to combat. The roots of terrorism "certainly don't lend themselves easily to military solutions," Abizaid says over breakfast. He knows that winning the peace in Iraq will be far more...