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...been a fan of boxer Muhammad Ali's ever since I watched him defeat Sonny Liston on closed-circuit TV in 1964. Still, the compliments by essayist Stanley Crouch in your coverage of the new film Ali [CINEMA, Dec. 24] were, to put it gently, excessive. The closing paragraph is but one example: "Everything he did was big, when he was right, when he was wrong, when he embarrassed us, when he inspired us. That finally is why he remains a king of the world." Gracious! My guess is that Ali would get a chuckle when reading such nonsense. RICHARD...
Actor Will Smith said that "for an African American, Muhammad Ali is the biggest role you could have." Although I admire Will, I think he should be more careful. I am not an African American, but I think any actor of that race would be more than thrilled to play the life of someone like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Time to start reading history, Will. CARLOS DOMINGUEZ CRUZ Xalapa, Mexico...
Musharraf started slowly, banning the two organizations that India linked to the Dec. 13 attack, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, and freezing their bank accounts. Then, under U.S. pressure, he had the groups' leaders, 22 of their henchmen and more than 100 other extremists arrested in the name of domestic security, and instructed his intelligence agency to scale back its support of insurgents going into Kashmir...
...jail on charges of carrying a fake passport, when masked gunmen hijacked an Indian Airlines jet to Afghanistan and demanded that India free him and two comrades. To protect the lives of the 155 passengers, New Delhi acquiesced. And now, India believes, Azhar, 34, as head of Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), is partly responsible for the Dec. 13 attack on its Parliament by five suicidal militants. It was his arrest--and that of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, leader of the other party India blames, Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure)--that New Delhi demanded and won from Pakistan...
...India released him. Within weeks, he was in Karachi delivering fanatical speeches and exhorting several thousand armed supporters to destroy India and the U.S. Azhar joined hands with a hard-line Sunni sectarian group and broke away from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen to found the even more fanatical Jaish-e-Muhammad. His new group was the first to favor suicide attacks in India. It has been responsible for grenade and car-bomb assaults on civilian targets, and took responsibility for a devastating bomb blast at the state legislature in Indian-administered Kashmir last October...