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...LETTER FROM HAIFA STREET: Scenes from Baghdad's deadliest address...
...mining operations in Sudan. Mann may be the most direct link between Thatcher and the coup plot. In the early 1990s, the Eton and Sandhurst-educated Briton set up a security consultancy known as Executive Outcomes, which was hired for private military operations by governments in Africa. A letter from Mann to his wife smuggled out of his Harare prison cell and shown to British newspapers suggests that he was expecting $200,000 from "Scratcher" - believed to be Mann's nickname for Thatcher - for an unspecified "project." Last Friday, Mann was found guilty of attempting to buy arms...
...Selectively Permeable Wall Matt Rees' "Letter From Jerusalem" [Aug. 2] referred to the separation wall being built by the Israelis, saying it might prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from crossing to Israel. However, it has not prevented Israeli army incursions into the West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands, and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. Azzam El-Hait Cairo
...press conference before the match, Fischer spat on a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department telling him not to play. He beat Spassky and pocketed a $3.35 million prize, and a U.S. federal warrant was issued for his arrest. Faced with a possible penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for violating America's economic sanctions, he has never returned to the States...
...clear why the U.S. has chosen to pursue Fischer more vigorously after all these years. Japan's immigration authorities detained him as he attempted to board a flight from Tokyo to Manila, acting on a letter from the U.S. State Department, which notified them that his passport had been revoked in November 2003. John Bosnitch, a Canadian journalist and consultant in Japan who has founded an organization called the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer, says the U.S.'s invalidation of Fischer's passport did not follow due process because Fischer was not properly notified of the action...