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From Prime Ministers to pop stars, terror suspects to teenage tearaways, Scotland Yard has questioned them all. But the request by the British Attorney General that the London police launch an investigation into MI5, the U.K.'s domestic security service, is unprecedented. At issue are claims by Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantánamo detainee, who alleges that British intelligence agents knew he was being held and tortured in prisons in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan, and even supplied questions to his interrogators...
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT With spring comes the launch of countless celebratory festivals around the country. Get out and enjoy...
...Iranian agenda that wants Ashraf residents out of Iraq." That may be, but government officials say the camp's closure is also in Iraq's national interest. "We do not want any friction with our neighbors," Rubaie says. The days when Iraq was used as a base to launch attacks against its neighbors, whether by the MEK along the eastern border with Iran, or by the Kurdish separatist PKK along the northern border with Turkey, are over, he says...
...North Korea Rocket Launch Fizzles In a move U.S. President Barack Obama called "provocative," North Korea fired a long-range rocket that crashed into the ocean. Pyongyang claimed it had successfully put a communications satellite in orbit, but experts in the U.S. and elsewhere said the mission, which violated a 2006 U.N. resolution, was a failure...
...warm summer's day in mid-January, South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, held a rally in East London on the country's southern coast to launch its campaign for re-election. Inside the city's stadium, in a pen between the stage and a sea of supporters in the ANC colors of yellow, black and green, stood the party's VIPs. Many of the men wore Gucci and the women Prada, but mixed in with them were 60 or so people, of both sexes, in combat fatigues whose camo caps identified them as veterans of Umkhonto...