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...Setting the Record Straight Unusual Exchange Our story "The Monster Within," on Pakistan's violent extremist group Jaish-e-Muhammad [Jan. 26], referred to the group's leader, Maulana Masood Azhar. We said, incorrectly, that "Azhar was released from an Indian jail in a prisoner exchange in December 2000." Azhar was released from an Indian prison in December 1999 in exchange for 155 passengers from a hijacked Indian airliner...
DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who served as President of Chechnya from 1996 to '97; after a bomb exploded his car as he was driving with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist, whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda, for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege...
...ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who was Chechnya's President from 1996-97; after a bomb exploded in his car as he drove home from Friday prayers with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege in 2002 and for alleged ties to al-Qaeda...
...President remembers the lessons of 1992, when moderate voters punished his father for a G.O.P. convention loaded with extremist declamations on the culture wars. Bush the son is careful to avoid coarse language about gays and lesbians. As Air Force One flew to South Carolina last week, the President made clear his opposition to gay marriage but added, "I'm not against anybody," according to Jim DeMint, a Republican Congressman who was aboard. "If some people want to have a contract, that's O.K., but marriage is the foundation of society...
...largest single party, with 82 of the 250 seats in the Serbian parliament. That's not nearly enough to form a government, but with 53 seats the dss was far short of a majority too. A coalition with the Radicals was out of the question because of their openly extremist agenda, so it was widely expected that Kostunica would turn to the reformist Democratic Party, which dominated Serbian politics until its chairman Zoran Djindjic was assassinated last March. Kostunica and Djindjic never saw eye to eye on reform, and the DSS leader failed to do a deal with Djindjic...