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...June 21, Timur Aliyev was working late. Suddenly he and his staff at the Public Development Institute in Nazran, the main town in the tiny Northern Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, heard gunfire. For the next three hours they watched as gunmen attacked the nearby headquarters of the Interior Ministry and the Russian border guards. The gunmen - apparently rebels from neighboring Chechnya - "appeared from nowhere," Aliyev recalls, and they left the same way, leaving the Ministry buildings and military sites in four towns in ruins, and almost 100 police, soldiers and civilians dead, among them the republic's Interior Ministry leadership...
...security in the Kingdom. Indeed, when he demands, "Enough blaming others when the reason lies within our own ranks!" he is explicitly criticizing a tendency, seen at the highest levels of the Saudi ruling family, to blame terror attacks in the kingdom on alien forces. Prince Nayef, the Interior Minister responsible for fighting terrorism in Saudi Arabia maintained long after 9/11 that the attack was the work of "Zionists," while even Crown Prince Abdullah, the day-to-day ruler of the kingdom in light of the debilitating illness of King Fahd, blamed the same mythologized foreign element for the recent...
...services; "preachers of hate" - an apparent reference to extremist Muslim clergy - can be deported even if they don't break the law. "In the future, it will be easier to deport foreigners who took part in training in terror camps or who incite hatred," said Günther Beckstein, Interior Minister of Christian Social Union-ruled Bavaria. That's got civil libertarians worried. The law should "not mean we can reject people or kick them out for expressing their opinions," says Reinhard Bütikofer, chairman of the Green Party. But Bütikofer concedes the new law will also...
...Ming-dynasty architecture, the city's finest tea parlor is a classy joint where executives come to impress clients and contacts with China's most exclusive brews. Its imposing wooden gateway (200 years old and transported to Shanghai from culturally rich Shanxi province) is the prelude to an interior of stone reliefs and bare brickwork infused with plenty of upscale nostalgia...
...real thing hits you, a powerful and astonishingly new experience. Here are the well-known images - most of them larger than you expect. Nighthawks has a room almost to itself. Details like the salt shakers on the counter pop out at you; the window frame is vivid green, the interior a heartless yellow. The background is rich: an empty shop front emerges from the blue depths. But "Edward Hopper" - Britain's first big show of his work in more than 20 years, with around 70 drawings and paintings - demonstrates that Hopper's vision extends far beyond that lonely diner...