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...News of the attack traveled around the country in minutes. Shortly after six o'clock, when Sayed Muhammad Ibrahim, a former soldier and an expert on security issues, was on his way home, he heard that several hand grenades had been flung at the rally in an apparent attempt to kill Hasina and the entire leadership of her Awami League party. The initial reports were unclear about Hasina's fate. Ibrahim, a decorated hero of his country's war of liberation in 1971, shivered. "I thought to myself, what will happen to my country now, what will happen...
...journalists who on a daily basis resist the spread of extremism, and the religious tolerance of a large number of its people. Yet its strengths might prove useless unless its political leaders stop fighting among themselves and start reining in the fundamentalists?while there is still time. Says security expert Ibrahim: "Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia must meet at once and start talking, before this country sinks into the Bay of Bengal...
...tragedies might be linked. "They belong to different air companies, and were flying to different locations," he told journalists. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin appeared on state TV, discussing the harvest and the new school year. By Friday, the official line was unraveling. The FSB soon confirmed what Russian security experts had suspected from the start - a powerful explosive, hexogen, had been found in the wreckage of both planes. As little as 400 g of the explosive powder would be enough to bring down a plane, says Adolf Mishuyev, an explosives expert who is involved in the crash investigation...
...March 2004 terrorist summit in the lawless province of Waziristan, described to TIME by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last week and expounded on by U.S. officials, has become a subject of obsession for authorities in both countries. "The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back," Musharraf said, "all this was extremely significant...
However, having no doubt discovered through focus groups and polling that stem-cell research might be a useful reverse-wedge issue against Republicans, who have traditionally enjoyed an electoral advantage on "values," the Democrats showcased it with a prime-time convention speech by the well-known medical expert Ron Reagan. Message? On the one side are the forces of the good, on the verge of curing such terrible afflictions as Parkinson's, diabetes and spinal-cord injury. On the other are the forces of reaction and superstition who, slaves to a primitive religiosity, would condemn millions to suffer...