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EUROPE Cheeky anti-Bush activists HIP-HOP Ex-Nation of Islam members in natty suits and ties...
...Greg Burke: It's certainly one of the more complicated trips he's ever made - and there have been some tricky ones before, such as his 1995 visit to the Sudan, where there has been considerable persecution of Christians as that country's rulers try to spread Islam. The Ukraine trip is complicated because the pope is going very much against the will of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is trying to maintain its hold over the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church there faces challenges not only from the country's Eastern-rite Catholics, but also from...
...stolen Volkswagen truck roared along the chaotic main street of Nablus. As Kamel Salameh wove the VW through the morning rush-hour traffic, he slammed into nine-year-old Islam Atallah. She spun off the hood like a doll, dead. With screaming tires, Salameh turned his truck and sped off. He headed for Balata refugee camp at the edge of Nablus. The patrolmen chasing him were nervous. The camp is a no-go area for Yasser Arafat's police. Salameh swerved into Balata's narrow streets and disappeared. Soon after, the police found the truck abandoned, but Salameh had melted...
...seized in April last year on Sipadan, a famous diving site on the Malaysian coast?they collected an estimated $25 million in ransom. But even before the Sipadan raid, the name Abu Sayyaf raised alarm among Western intelligence agencies. Abu Sayyaf kept surfacing in connection with various plots by Islamic terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, now serving a life sentence for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City. Both Yousef and Abu Sayyaf founder Janjalani may have received training in the early 1990s at a commando camp near Khost, in Afghanistan. It was run by a professor...
...Tripoli, his friendship with an Egyptian senior official in the Islam Brotherhood, a fundamentalist organization, came in handy. Kane's family had a "much beloved Irish setter dog," and when they were evacuated, entrusted the dog to the official. Kane says he left the safety of the base under the pretense of appraising the situation in the city. "I had another motive--I drove back...