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...Salzburg this month. But that success was overshadowed by the victory in neighboring Carinthia of Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. One step left, two steps right. Free at Last U.K. The U.S. released five Britons held as terror suspects for two years at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The five were briefly detained by British antiterrorist police on their arrival back in the U.K., and then released without charge. One of the men, Jamal Udeen, said he had been subjected to beatings and ?psychological torture? in the camp. Mending Fences? MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime...
...guns aren't pointed at each other, stable government can still be a matter of life and death - By Chris Thornton Britons Freed U.K. Home Secretary Jack Straw announced that five of nine British prisoners held on suspicion of terrorism for two years at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay are to be released. Straw said it would be up to police and prosecutors to decide whether the men would face any charges in the U.K. Families Find Fault AUSTRIA Relatives of the 155 people who died in a ski train fire in 2000 reacted with anger...
...discriminatory, harsh and, paradoxically, ineffective at targeting homegrown terrorists, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said he was thinking of changing it - by extending the same stern measures to British citizens. Which approach makes Europe safer? The American camp at Guantánamo Bay may be the most notorious attempt to bypass legal protections for the accused in the name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package...
...security officials in the Caucasus told TIME. Abu-Ayat was an alleged explosives specialist who claimed to be close to Osama bin Laden and had been on the run for over a year. He was handed over to the U.S., local officials say, and has probably been transferred to Guantánamo Bay. Peace Setback ISRAEL A suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in the northern port of Haifa killed at least 19 people and injured up to 50. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Hours later, Israeli helicopter gunships struck two locations...
...budge. Even on the controversial issue of British citizens being held as unlawful combatants, Blair reacted as if it were an easily adjudicated matter among friends. And his attitude paid off. (The next day the White House announced it is suspending legal proceedings against all Britons being held at Guantánamo Bay until officials from both countries discuss the cases.) For Bush, that even temper demonstrates far more than grace under pressure. "I've heard it called cojones," says a senior White House official. "Blair's got the fortitude. He's a man of principle and character...