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...Whether Iqbal planned to martyr himself may seem coldly irrelevant to the families of the dead. But the question is of critical importance to security officials in Southeast Asia as they assess the likelihood of future attacks and formulate defense plans. Australian police said on Nov. 28 that the five-member team suspected of carrying out the Paddy's attack had formed a suicide pact (although only Iqbal died). Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said indications of suicide elements among Muslim extremists in the region posed "grave challenges" to governments trying to contain the terrorist threat. The day after...
...campaign of David M. Darst ’04 and Shira S. Simon ’04 did poster outside in the Yard early this morning despite the likelihood that their signs will be taken down by the time most students wake...
...when we mailed in that Harvard acceptance card, the chances that we will ever be foster parents decreased greatly. “As income level and education level increase, the likelihood that you will be a foster parent plummets,” says Bell. The Department of Social Services (DSS) struggles to recruit parents with socioeconomic and educational resources. Though good and bad parents come from all facets of society, the recruitment attempts should resonate at Harvard, where every year 1,600 students graduate, a group that will have the most socioeconomic resources to deal with foster children...
...rebutted those who had despaired of Indonesia ever taking action in the fight against terror. The police made a series of amazingly swift arrests and promised more soon. But for all the sound and fury surrounding the investigations, disturbing questions remain unanswered?questions that have grave implications for the likelihood of future terrorist attacks in Indonesia and the region. Why can't Indonesian and Australian forensics analysts even agree on the composition of the bomb? Who actually built the bomb?none of those captured even pretended to have the expertise?and what happened to the other 700 kg of fertilizer...
...Amrozi, the first member of the bombing team to be apprehended. According to a source familiar with a lengthy Nov. 15 interrogation, Amrozi disclosed that the target of the group's main bomb was changed at the last moment by the intervention of three mysterious strangers, in all likelihood the same three "top guns" now heading the police's secret most wanted list. (After testifying, the 39-year-old mechanic signed the 70-plus-page transcript with a flourish, bizarrely adding a grinning smiley face next to his name.) Originally, Amrozi told his captors, the group had planned to target...