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...morning and accuse me of having al-Qaeda connections." Last year police netted a cache of antitank mines in Rustempasic's family house, and imprisoned him for two months; Rustempasic and three others were arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities, but they were released due to a lack of evidence. Rustempasic says the weaponry was wartime trash from the 1990s, and claims he is being hounded for his Salafi beliefs. Still, his talk is disquieting. "There is a religious thought that Muslims are one body," he says. "As far as I know no Bosnian has been captured...
...them to us." The one Bosnian who repeatedly claims to have trained and fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan - citing gory details of how he supposedly slit the throat of an Australian soldier - remains free. Nihad Cosic was arrested in a 2007 police raid in Pakistan, but released for lack of evidence and flown home to Sarajevo. In April he offered his most recent description of his years fighting with al-Qaeda to Austrian and German journalists visiting Sarajevo. Yet Bosnian police have not sought to arrest him for terrorism, and last year an intelligence official told a Sarajevo publication...
automobiles •utter lack of knowledge about - "I don't know anything about cars" - of incoming General Motors chairman...
...Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held earlier this week with leaders of groups that represent minorities, the disabled and the disadvantaged. While these are the very segments of society that stand to benefit the most from expanding health coverage to the 47 million or so Americans who currently lack it, they were nonetheless skeptical of some of the things that Obama is trying...
...what are our options, given Mashaal's refusal to yield on any of the demands made by Obama? Hamas has some inconvenient facts in its favor: it exists, it remains strong in Gaza - as a direct consequence of the real social services it provides and its relative lack of corruption compared with Fatah - and it has a legitimate complaint. The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is inhumane and outrageous. Palestinians are imprisoned behind a barrier wall that does not conform to the 1967 lines; they are forced to endure hundreds of Israeli checkpoints and roadblocks whose purpose seems humiliation...