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Sudanese Government Minister Ahmad Mohammed Harun is not your typical minister of humanitarian affairs. Charged with 42 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Harun has been at large since May 2007 when the ICC accused him of orchestrating militia attacks on entire villages in Darfur...
...unilateral U.S. action that could inflame Arab nationalist passions and thereby undermine the domestic standing of America's Arab allies, including Saudi Arabia. "My god, the idea of an occupation of Baghdad by the armed forces of the United States is unimaginable," said Saud. "This is the capital of Harun al Rashid, who was negotiating with Charlemagne. This was the flower of Arab civilization. Who is the general who will occupy Baghdad? How would he ever be considered a friend of the Arab world? But the U.S. is not an imperialist power and its record proves that...
...deal with random violence in the past?two years ago, a bomb exploded in the building housing the Jakarta Stock Exchange, killing 15. But the Bali blast has dragged Indonesia into the war on terror. Foreign businessmen "knew Indonesia was unsafe, but they still came," says Harun Hajadi, managing director of property developer Ciputra Group. "After this one, I don't know if they will come. Maybe they won't want to deal with Indonesians anymore...
...suspected ringleader of Bosnian cell, arrested in Zenica, Bosnia Oct. 10, 2001 Lased Ben Heni, closely tied to bin Laden, nabbed in Munich on suspicion of planning a biochemical attack. Aouadi Ben Belgacem, a Tunisian national also suspected of planning a chemical attack, arrested in Milan Oct. 17, 2001 Harun Aydin, a Turk, apprehended in Frankfurt attempting to board a plane to Tehran. Believed to be a leading member of a Cologne-based extremist group. Five people arrested in separate investigations in Sarajevo Oct. 23, 2001 Yasser al-Siri, who runs the extremist Islamic Observation Center in London, is arrested...
...Despite 30 years of breakneck economic development, Malaysia remains a spirit-haunted land where, as Hairudin Harun of the University of Malaya notes, a recent survey showed that 90% of professionals said they had consulted spirit me-diums for marital, health or work-related problems. "Most of these (mediums) are harmless. It is like watching David Copperfield," Hairudin says. But he adds that the regular reports in Malaysian newspapers of ritual dismemberment and the discovery of skulls and other body parts used in occult rituals testify to the continuing popularity of a much darker side to Malaysians' faith...