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...moved to New York. I grew up in Austin, Texas, and we didn't have these old-school butcher shops; my meat was wrapped up in cellophane, and that was it. When I moved to New York and discovered these old shops, I was fascinated by the skills these men had - they were born and raised learning how to use these knives. And I so envied that - that deep comfort level they had with their craft.(See nine kid foods to avoid...
...facing Obama's top advisers in December was what to do with the 40 to 50 Yemeni detainees who were deemed by the task force to be safe for sending back to Yemen for eventual release under the right circumstances. The officials decided that circumstances militated against sending the men home. "We all took a look at Yemen and said, Man, this stinks," says a senior State Department official. "Normally when you repatriate [detainees] to a government that is competent, they keep an eye on them. In Yemen the government has less capacity [to do so]. We'd be negligent...
People who knew Abdulmutallab and Lindh are stunned that those young men turned out to be notorious figures. Muhammed al-Anisi, director of the Sana'a Institute for Arabic Language, where Abdulmutallab studied, was also the director of CALES, another Arabic language school, when Lindh was a student there in the late 1990s. He says he never thought Lindh or Abdulmutallab were capable of violence and stresses that the schools teach language, not religion. "These people cheat us," he says. "It's very bad for us as a school, and Yemen as a country." (See "The Making of John Walker...
...appear to be limited to Denmark, either. In neighboring Sweden, which has a Somali population of about 15,000, authorities say al-Shabab is recruiting Somalis to attend militant training camps in their homeland. Patrik Peter, a spokesman for the Säpo security police force, says about 20 men have left Sweden for Somalia in recent years, "a handful of which were found dead after acts of violence." (Read a brief history of al-Shabab...
...Somali refugees are also among the least integrated minority groups in Denmark, a fact that experts blame on a lack of education and the strident tone of right-wing politicians. According to the Integration Ministry, only 34% of Somali men and 22% of Somali women are employed - a rate far below the average for immigrants in the country. "There are different reasons for this, but one is that there has been civil war in Somalia since 1991, and this has created a situation in which many have a poor education from their homeland," says Nauja Kleist, a senior researcher...