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...across town another race has shaped up with its own potential to make or break the political career of a homegrown pol. Paul C. Demakis ’75, the incumbent state representative from Boston’s Back Bay, faces a tough challenge from upstart candidate and Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker...
...Afghanistan, thousands of militants have slipped across the border since last winter. Officials estimate that, altogether, more than 3,500 al-Qaeda operatives and their Pakistani comrades are hunkered down in the tribal belt along the Afghan border and in the sprawling cities of Karachi and Peshawar, sheltered by homegrown extremists. Since December, Pakistani authorities working with U.S. intelligence agents have caught more than 380 suspected al-Qaeda members. In Peshawar last week, U.S. and Pakistani officials detained seven suspected terrorists but failed to snatch two senior al-Qaeda aides who were the main targets of the raids...
...doesn't create a good feeling for Afghans to see their president have foreign security guards, to see a president who doesn't have homegrown security," former Kabul mayor Fazel Karim Aymaq told TIME. "As the people see this it may create a longer term problem." A respected Northern Alliance commander loyal to Fahim, Aymaq was recently replaced as mayor, a move that has further antagonized Karzai's political rivals. Western sources cite incompetence and a lack of management as the reason and Aymaq concedes the president had questioned his performance...
...question are in very different circumstances from Walker Lindh. One, 21-year-old Yaser Esam Hamdi, was captured in Afghanistan and brought to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After authorities discovered he was born in Louisiana, Hamdi was transferred to a naval base in Norfolk, VA. Hamdi lacks the homegrown factor that may have helped Lindh; he has lived with his family in Saudi Arabia for much of his life. He has been held without access to an attorney since his capture earlier this year. The second domestic terrorist, Jose Padilla, is under arrest for allegedly conspiring with al-Qaeda operatives...
...foreigners came and the trouble didn't. Young Japanese realized that the visitors were simply there for a good party, so they joined in. Some wrapped themselves in the Union Jack, while others sambaed along with the Brazilians. Across the sea, South Korea spent some $800,000 to form homegrown cheering squads for nations like Senegal and Turkey, whose fans typically couldn't afford the journey to Asia...