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...region. The Uighurs are predominantly Muslim, do not speak Chinese and have little cultural affiliation with China. A Uighur separatist movement has used bombings and assassinations to pursue its ends, and some of the separatists were trained in Afghanistan. However, China’s current crackdown has led to harsh punishments for peaceful expressions of dissent, including preaching Islam or teaching others its tenets outside of government control. Amnesty International reports that a new effort to suppress “terrorist and separatist” movements in the Xinjiang region has in fact taken its greatest toll?...
...That's how the Taliban got its name, though the term now has an endangered ring. If Osama bin Laden is America's Enemy No. 1, Omar isn't far down the list. America is hoping that Omar's harsh, highly centralized five-year rule has alienated enough Afghans that support will drain away. If the U.S. and its allies want to get Omar, it should be far easier than nabbing bin Laden. For the past six years, Omar has worked from his guarded, palatial Kandahar bungalow. Just a year before that, he was a mere village clergyman living...
...perhaps this is too harsh or uncharitable an assessment; perhaps it doesn’t allow for an evolving sound or an evolving musical vision; perhaps it isn’t fair to expect a band to cling unflinchingly to the musical mores of their formative career. Indeed, these are important considerations, but change at what cost? In the estimation of many devoted fans, Bennet’s departure comes as a dear loss to Wilco’s nuanced sound and is a change for the worse...
...Training Day Alonzo's a rogue narc working the Los Angeles streets where he learned his mean lessons. On a single very violent day, covered at top speed with harsh intensity by director Antoine Fuqua, Alonzo has to murderously bust a drug dealer he has been stalking for a decade. At the same time, he's got to pay off some Russian mafiosi he has offended or end up dead himself. Oh, yeah, it's also his first day on the job with a new partner, an idealistic and ambitious square named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), who needs...
...UNHCR's spokesman Rupert Colville in Quetta, "There has been a drought for three years." Relief officials say as many as 10,000 Afghans may have already slipped into Pakistan in recent days and are being sheltered by fellow clansmen, invisible inside the fortress-like tribal homes of the harsh borderlands...