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...free them? Officials cannot claim that people are enemy combatants simply because they happened to be in a country like Afghanistan where terrorist events are common. Should the British Foreign Office warn tourists that they may be arrested for traveling to such places? Rupert Eden Madrid Bush's New Campaign Columnist Joe Klein discussed why President Bush is taking the controversial position in favor of reforming Social Security [Jan. 24]. Although I usually agree with Klein, I take issue with his endorsement of private investment accounts for Social Security. Over the past quarter-century, most Americans have moved from traditional...
...finally understood that helping build decent, representative, tolerant societies in the Middle East is ultimately the only way to prevent endless generations of young Arab men from finding fulfillment by crashing airplanes into buildings filled with infidels. Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic nihilism that visited the Twin Towers...
...Belgian Connection? Last March 13, just two days after bombs destroyed three commuter trains in Madrid, Spanish investigators were directed to a video recording stuffed in a trash can near Madrid's main mosque. On it, a man calling himself Abu Dujan al-Afghani, the self-styled "military spokesman for al-Qaeda in Europe ," claimed responsibility. Last week in Brussels , police arrested a Moroccan-born Belgium resident named Youssef Belhadj, 28, after receiving an arrest warrant from a Spanish judge who suspects Belhadj of being the man in the video. He hasn't been charged and has made no comment...
...days after the attack, on suspicion of involvement with al-Qaeda. The Belgians let him go for lack of evidence. According to a spokeswoman for Belgium 's public prosecutor's office, they had no idea of his alleged link to Madrid until last week when the Spanish warrant arrived. Was that because the Spanish didn't yet suspect him or because they didn't know he'd been in Belgian custody? Spanish Interior Ministry officials aren't saying. Spain has rounded up a considerable number of suspects in its March 11 investigation, but testimony before parliament last year revealed...
Ryan Z. Cortazar ’06, a History and Literature concentrator studying in Madrid for the spring semester, wrote in an e-mail that he was not able to access a review sheet online for his “Statistics 100: Introduction to Quantitative Methods” final explaining a crucial concept until too late...