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...indecisive, even following the deadly Bali bomb blasts and last year's attack at the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Jakarta. She encouraged a competent and thorough investigation of the Bali bombings, which led to the arrests of more than 30 Muslim militants and key players in the network of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI). But Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. If Megawati does not move cautiously, she risks alienating Muslim voters or being branded a U.S. lackey. Although JI has been declared a terrorist organization by the U.N., Megawati has been reluctant to follow...
...Guinness lent its name to a TV series hosted by David Frost, which was later broadcast on India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined...
...book" inside the FBI made no sense at all. For years agents were barred from searching open sources, such as the Internet, without first opening a formal investigation. Agents had a deeply ingrained habit of keeping information to themselves and filing paper reports. There was no computer network permitting broad searches for terms like Arabs and flight schools. The FBI's greasy pole was tilted, leaning away from counterterrorism work and toward the traditional pursuit of such crimes as Mob activity, kidnapping and white-collar offenses. Intelligence work? That was the last thing an up-and-coming agent wanted...
...Interior Minister Otto Schily told TIME. From his window-lined 12th-floor office on the banks of the River Spree, Schily has a commanding view of the German capital. But as chief of Germany's war on terrorism, his sights are often clouded by the country's overly complex network of independent state-run police and intelligence services. Take the morning of March 11, when European governments were scrambling their antiterror forces in the wake of the Madrid train bombings. Ideally, Schily would have liked to call a crisis meeting of top officials from the BfV, the Federal Criminal Police...
Instead, Manckiewicz said, the news is slanted because the network presidents restrict us to a half-hour of national news in a 16-hour day of programming...