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Over the next few days, al-Qahtani is subjected to a drill known as Invasion of Space by a Female, and he becomes especially agitated by the close physical presence of a woman. Then, around 2 p.m. on Dec. 6, comes another small breakthrough. He asks his handlers for some paper. "I will tell the truth," he says. "I am doing this to get out of here." He finally explains how he got to Afghanistan in the first place and how he met with bin Laden. In return, the interrogators honor requests from him to have a blanket...
...Japan. The U.S.'s new point man on the now stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Kim to abandon nuclear arms?ambassador to Seoul Christopher Hill?flew to Beijing, where he met with a group of senior Chinese officials, including Wang Jiarui, China's top North Korea handler, who traveled to Pyongyang for talks on Saturday...
...runoff, scheduled by the supreme court after it threw out last month's rigged results, the diagnosis may help consolidate his support and make it more complicated for his opponents to take advantage of his condition. When it was still a mystery, Yanukovych had his top Russian press handler warn voters on TV that if they elected such a sick man, "the very next day Yushchenko will be admitted to hospital." --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Paul Quinn-Judge, Andrew Purvis and Yuri Zarakhovich
Just last month, another tiger shook up New York City after it escaped from a circus in Queens. The animal caused a multicar crack-up but no serious injuries when it strolled down the Jackie Robinson Parkway and lay down on a nearby street. A handler lured the tiger back into its cage and returned it to the circus...
...hostages then become commodities in a deadly human trade that links street gangs to local mafias to insurgents like Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda--linked jihadi thought to be behind many of the recent terrorist attacks in Iraq. Victims are sold up the chain, and each handler scores thousands of dollars, money used to finance gun running, drug smuggling and the insurgency. There are indications that Rifat may have been caught up in such a chain...