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...West Mosque, surnamed Li, says relations between the Hui and the Han have reached their lowest point in his lifetime. "Even though we have no connection with terrorists, the Han now have prejudices against us that come from negative international ideas about Muslims," he says. Five days into the martial law that was declared in Zhongmou county, only the Hui were still prevented from leaving their villages, even though the Han also participated in the violence. At roadblocks across the county, police scanned cars looking for people wearing Muslim headgear, and long-distance buses driven by Hui were turned away...
SENTENCED. STAFF SERGEANT IVAN FREDERICK II, 38, highest-ranking Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in prison; during a court martial in Baghdad. The sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five of eight charges, is one of seven charged in the scandal; his sentence is the longest of the three imposed thus...
...SENTENCED. Staff Sergeant IVAN L. FREDERICK II, 38, highest-ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in jail by a court-martial; at Camp Victory in western Baghdad. His sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, a corrections officer in civilian life, is one of seven charged in the scandal and the third to be convicted; his sentence is the longest to date...
...Motion Picture Association of America has given Team America: World Police an R rating for "graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language--all involving puppets." That about sums up the new martial-arts musical marionette movie from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Inspired by the '60s British TV and movie series Thunderbirds, Parker and Stone have fashioned a naughty, handsome, sporadically funny pre-election recruiting poster for U.S. military values at their most myopically heroic...
...fine array of raunchy gags, from a volcano of vomiting to the already notorious sex scene comprising many positions and much anatomically incomplete nudity. Parker, Stone and their marionettes also have fun at their own expense, detailing things puppets can't do (shoot pool, dance, plausibly engage in martial arts). The real kick, however, is in the grandeur and detail of the production design, by Jim Dultz and David Rockwell. Paris, Cairo, the Panama Canal, the inside of Mount Rushmore and a terrorist hideout (modeled on the Star Wars cantina) look fabulous redreamed in miniature...