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...could any student, like Abu Ali, who attended the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (I.S.A.) in northern Virginia while growing up. The eldest of five children, Abu Ali was born in Houston in 1981, but by the time he was 3, his family had settled in suburban Virginia, a short commute from his father's job as a computer systems analyst at the Saudi embassy in Washington. In many ways, young Abu Ali had a fairly typical American upbringing, playing soccer, tutoring other kids, passionately cheering on the Washington Redskins and even dreaming of one day becoming President...
...government's delay in taking action has also raised concern that violence and radical Islam may already have become entrenched in Bangladesh. In the northern town of Rangpur, police told local reporters that two arrested militants claimed to be part of a 15,000-strong militia aiming to "bring about an Islamic revolution." And talking to reporters while in custody, the Arabic professor Al Galib?who denies links with extremists?warned that any campaign to rein in fundamentalism would fail. "Whether we are hanged or jailed, our movement will continue," he declared. Until last week, that seemed guaranteed. Now, finally...
Hockey for women, however, has never had an American professional league, and nowhere near the national consideration as basketball, soccer or even softball because most still consider hockey on the whole a Canadian—or simply limited to the Northern U.S.—sport...
...though the post is intended to be largely symbolic, Talabani plans to use the position of titular head of state to protect Kurdish interests. "I must have the right to participate with the government in ruling the country," he told TIME in an interview at his headquarters in the northern Iraq mountain stronghold of Qala Chwala. "We want to be partners in reshaping Iraq...
...north of the "green line," the area where U.S. forces halted the Iraqi army's advance when Saddam moved to crush yet another Kurdish uprising in 1991. But since the fall of Saddam in 2003, the size of Kurdish-held territory has expanded 20%, according to coalition officials in northern Iraq...