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...suspect. "I believe he might have been to Yemen, but we are investigating to determine that," Mutallab told the AP. The Nigerian newspaper This Day reported Saturday that Abdulmutallab had been known to have extremist religious views since attending high school at the British International School in Lome, Togo, saying he had the nickname Alfa, a local term for an Islamic scholar. The newspaper also cited family sources as saying that after Abdulmutallab left university in London, he relocated to Egypt and then Dubai, where he cut ties with his family. (See how Nigeria is struggling with its Islamist insurgencies...
...Unconstitutional Crisis TOGO Demonstrators protesting new President Faure Gnassingbe's assumption of power clashed with police on the streets of Lome, as a government delegation headed for Niger for talks with the Economic Community of West African States. ECOWAS called Gnassingbe's army-backed installation - after the Feb. 5 death of his father, who ruled for 38 years - tantamount to a coup, and threatened Togo with sanctions...
...measure, the Lome peace deal was a remarkable achievement for a corporal cashiered by Sierra Leone's British colonial army in the early '60s and sent to Scotland to be trained as a TV cameraman. Insurgents are prone to self-mythologizing, and the snippets of biography Mr. Sankoh has released are often contradictory. He is reported variously to have worked as a wedding and portrait photographer and as a cameraman for the state TV service, spending time in jail for anti-government activities before finding himself, in 1991, a guest of regional mischief-maker Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The Libyan leader...
...gave them a long-term source of funding that made them both a more formidable force and a more intractable foe. And the long-suffering people of Sierra Leone simply wanted peace, even if the price was sacrificing justice for the criminals of the RUF. Thus was born the Lome peace agreement, which set the scene for the current debacle...
DE48 Kevin PATRICK (SR, 6-2, 208) DT 76 Mark BERGGREN (SR, 6-2, 246) DT 58 Jim PETRUCCI (JR, 6-0, 231) DE 99 Mark PETRUZZIELLO (SR, 6-0, 215) LB 95 Bnan HETHERINGTON (SR, 6-0, 203) LB 53 Anthony DiTOMMASO (JR, 6-1, 205) LB 54 Lome KELLER (JR, 5-9, 212) CB 1 Enc ROBINSON (SR, 5-11, 171) CB 47 Dave McEACHERN (JR, 5-10, 181) SS 40 Jim ANDERSON (JR, 5-11, 175) FS 9 Kyle HEFFLEY...