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...additional dollars have been pumped into the CIA budget by President George W. Bush, a man who may be predisposed to believe strongly in an agency his father once headed. He has ordered SOG operatives to join forces with foreign intelligence services. He has even authorized the CIA to kidnap terrorists in order to break their cells or kill them...
...year ago this week, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl walked into a kidnap trap in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and most chaotic city. After six days of captivity, he was murdered. In July, a Pakistani court convicted four men for their role in delivering Pearl to the kidnappers, who were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner...
...happy face on the map. A happy face? What year was that kid living in? We call them emoticons now. In Britain, the worst royal scandal anyone could scare up this year was over a rape that allegedly occurred in 1989. And a gang of thugs wanted to kidnap Victoria Beckham, a.k.a. Posh Spice, now - that's like stealing someone's Enron stock. Even weirder were the public debates. Last year we were arguing about cloning and stem-cell research. This year, we pretended to argue about things we agreed upon long ago. The New York Times used...
Perhaps a less gullible mind would read between the lines of the defense department’s announced intentions. It seems naive to take at face value the department’s absurdly improbable plan to kidnap our enemies’ bombsmiths and hope the kind offer of asylum will move them to reveal their secrets. Since jail-time might not be as effective with Iraqi scientists as mobsters, the defense department could find itself tempted to turn to a bit of off-the-books torture once the U.N. handed over the new guests...
...Sayyaf. After his January capture in Manila, al-Ghozi said he carried out the bombings on the orders of JI operations commander Riduan (Hambali) Isamuddin. Equally worrying, recent Mindanao bombings suggest that Abu Sayyaf has returned to its roots as a purely terrorist organization rather than a kidnap-and-extortion gang...