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...judicial fairness. Under the 1996 law, immigrants can be deported without being allowed to see the evidence on which their deportation is based, depriving them of all chance to present a defense. Many of the victims of the bill have been Arab-Americans: In one recent case, an Egyptian immigrant was detained without bond for three years on secret evidence until an immigration judge dismissed all the evidence as inadmissable hearsay. The bill has broad support, but it is still stuck in a Senate committee and has not yet been debated on the floor of the House...
...kidnapping of 16 Western tourists in 1998. But the more likely suspects, experts say, are international troublemakers operating in Yemen. Bin Laden, who attempted to blow up an Aden hotel housing U.S. service members in 1992, has helped recruit and support several fanatically anti-American terrorist cells, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Army of Yemen, which is headed by Bin Laden's brother...
...spending 20 minutes on the phone with Beyer on Saturday. Rees and his team have been out on the streets and into the many trouble spots to bring vivid accounts of the drama now unfolding. Cairo bureau chief SCOTT MACLEOD headed for the Gaza Strip, AMANY RADWAN monitored the Egyptian government's mediation efforts, Tehran stringer AZADEH MOAVENI kept watch on the volatile Lebanese border from Beirut, and veteran war correspondent ED BARNES hopped a flight on Thursday to Tel Aviv. From our safe haven in New York City, we have nothing but admiration for their dedication and work...
...third category is what experts call Jihadists, groups ideologically aligned with Osama bin Laden and guided by his 1998 fatwa, which called for a holy war against Israel and the U.S. These groups, mainly Bin Laden's al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, are known to operate in Yemen. The two are among the best trained and funded on the U.S. watch list...
...back and forth from the conference center, where the meetings were held, to the hotel. Whenever we came back, always the Egyptian security people checked us in a very, very tight way. What caused me a lot of frustration was the fact that while they were checking us, I saw the Palestinians going back and forth without anyone checking them. I felt very bad about that, because I had a badge as a member of the delegation. It happened that I had to go with my briefcase, a brown leather case. I did not allow them to open it. "This...