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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...vote majority. Although he has the dictator's backing, Jamali's government is expected to be hamstrung by opposition from anti-Musharraf parties. INDONESIA On the Case Police said they had captured the "mastermind" behind last month's Bali bombing in which at least 190 people died. Computer expert Imam Samudra, 35, confessed to choosing the nightclub as a target and leading planning meetings. He also confessed to a string of bomb attacks on churches in 2000. MEANWHILE Lightyear's Ahead Galactic hero Buzz Lightyear took time off battling the evil Zorg to fight crime in Hereford, Britain. Police were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

...gentle wit, lets Pi tell his own story in an engaging voice, starting with a wondrous childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of zoo owners. In his adolescence, Pi becomes promiscuously religious: he decides he wants to be Hindu, Muslim and Christian, devoutly and simultaneously. His pandit, his imam and his priest are less than pleased. Pi doesn't see the problem. Gandhi, he reminds them, said "all religions are true," and as for himself, he says, "I just want to love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castaway With Karma | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...biggest foreign investor in the U.S.: "The people see their brothers dying in Palestine, and it makes them hate America." The Israeli reoccupation of West Bank cities has handed religious hard-liners an excuse to go on the offensive. In a televised address, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, imam of the Mosque of Mecca, declared that God turned Jews into "pigs and monkeys," condemned the "poisonous culture and rotten ideas" of the West, and trashed Hinduism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Still Need the Saudis? | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...biggest foreign investor in the U.S.: "The people see their brothers dying in Palestine, and it makes them hate America." The Israeli reoccupation of West Bank cities has handed religious hard-liners an excuse to go on the offensive. In a televised address, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, imam of the Mosque of Mecca, declared that God turned Jews into "pigs and monkeys," condemned the "poisonous culture and rotten ideas" of the West, and trashed Hinduism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do We Still Need the Saudis? | 7/28/2002 | See Source »

...Padilla converted formally to Islam at al-Iman mosque in Sunrise. The imam at the mosque at that time, who would have overseen Padilla's conversion, was Raed Awad--the former Florida fund raiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim charity that the Bush Administration has linked to Hamas. In December the Texas-based offices of the foundation were raided and shuttered by the Treasury Department. Attempts to reach Awad, who has since left the mosque, were unsuccessful. Awad has denied any link between the charity and Hamas. Law-enforcement sources say the FBI is interested in learning more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case Of The Dirty Bomber | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

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