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...contractionary fiscal policies, and that premature capital market liberalization might expose countries to risks. Three years later protesters stormed the annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting in Prague and, with a couple of exceptions, those meetings have continued to be marked by protest, as the one taking place in Dubai this month may be. These events sparked a worldwide debate about the need to reform the world's economic and financial architecture. Now it is time to take stock: Has there been reform? Have the protests made a difference? At first glance, there have been enormous changes. Public pressure...
...Police Satya Pal Singh, "we suspect they might exist." The police also see the hidden hand of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant Islamic group committed to ending Indian rule in Kashmir. Police believe Hanif was recruited by Lashkar while working as an electrician at a hotel in Dubai and returned to Chimatpada in 2002 as a hardened extremist trained in the use of explosives. Police suspect that Lashkar operatives introduced him to Ansari and to two other men, called Nasir and Zahid, who helped in the planning and financing of the blasts?and who remain at large...
...Pakistani intelligence officer concedes the possibility that "maverick elements" among the Kashmiri militant groups?acting without Islamabad's support?might have been involved. And Umar wasn't coy about his willingness to use outside help, saying that "Whatever support we need, we ask and they give us." A Dubai-based Islamic militant leader even suggests that SIMI is part of a loose terror alliance that includes the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammmad, as well as Palestinian and other Middle Eastern groups. He says operatives have named themselves Ikhwan (brothers) and are sworn to avenge atrocities or injustices...
...Mosul, the pan-Arab cable channel al-Jazeera aired footage of masked Saddam loyalists bearing Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers vowing to avenge Uday and Qusay Hussein. The footage was shot on a dusty street in broad daylight "somewhere in Iraq," the network explained. Not to be outdone, Jazeera's Dubai-based competitor Al-Arabiya on Thursday carried footage of a self-styled 'fedayeen' fighter, masked in a keffiyeh and touting an RPG, warning that attacks will intensify...
When the students return to Dubai, they will retain their connections with the facilities, helping to support fledgling research programs in the region...