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...movement has far outpaced judicial cooperation. After the first arrests in Milan last April, Italian prosecutor Dambruoso issued a warrant for another figure associated with the cell, Tarek Maaroufi, referred to in Italian court papers as one of the "spiritual heads of the Salafist Group with a basic function of indoctrinating recruits." But Maaroufi lives in Belgium as a Belgian citizen, and no European Union country extradites its own citizens. The Belgian authorities contend that the Italians have not provided sufficient grounds for his arrest, nor have they seen fit to hand over his dossier to a Belgian prosecutor...
...logic of parsing al-Qaeda?s European network, investigators say, is to watch operatives in one cell make contact with another. The problem, says a French investigator, is that many groups that seem to work independently of one another actually coordinate their activities in London. "Since radical Islamist groups function openly and in total freedom in Britain," gripes the investigator, "how can you monitor who makes connections with whom, and who acts as the go-between...
...lesson was clear. No Crimson skater is good enough to win games by himself. But in a fluid, up-tempo game where the offensive lines function as a unit, Harvard can be scary good. Good enough to rout a team that many feel is the best in the ECAC...
...sculpture hanging in front of Holyoke Center is anything but pleasing on a simple level. In part, this is a physical problem—a function of the sculpture’s positioning. It is constructed in such a way that the most interesting parts of it—the colorful structures that rest on top of the nest—are blocked to a large extent by the mesh upon which they lie. Sadly, the best way to appreciate the sculpture is to view the aerial photo of it on the Internet...
...residents are Uzbek and Hazari, and the Taliban can only count on the support of a few Pashtun villages on the outskirts of the town. For the rest, they rule by fear, and Northern Alliance leader General Rashid Dostum believes his Uzbek supporters in the city will function as a fifth column once the battle begins. That may not be enough...