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...believer keen to plan terrorist attacks, neither country could tie him to a specific operation in the works. The circumstances of his Saudi detention will also be an issue. Once the Saudis decided they didn't have much of a case, they believed they were doing the U.S. a favor by letting the FBI park Abu Ali there, says a source close to the case. The Americans insist the Saudis were not merely keeping Abu Ali on ice but, in the words of a State Department official, "wanted this guy. They thought they could charge him." Either way, the situation...
While she did not rule in favor of The Crimson, she said that the issue at hand would be “a matter best left for the legislature to consider...
...suspects, that may explain why, in an experiment in England four years ago, newborn boys were much more likely than girls to stare at a mobile turning above their cribs. It may also help explain why boys prefer to play with moving toys like trucks while girls favor richly textured dolls and tend to draw with a wider range of colors, Sax says...
There's little dispute that the results of the Jan. 30 election have given Kurdish nationalism fresh momentum. Although they are predominantly Muslim, the Kurds of Iraq have long favored a more secular form of government than most Shi'ites do. The Kurdistan Referendum Movement, a grass-roots organization of intellectuals and junior political officials, says that of the 2 million who took part in an informal Election Day referendum on independence, 99% voted in favor. Kurds control their peshmerga militia soldiers and their own borders and are determined to preserve their sanctuary. Officially, Kurdistan exists only north...
...training with al-Qaeda and plotting to detonate a dirty bomb, he is being held as an enemy combatant Padilla continues to challenge his status. The Supreme Court dismissed his case on a technicality but, on the basis of the Hamdi decision, is likely to rule in his favor if there is another hearing...