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...with cohorts scattered around the globe. This indicates, they say, that some of the network's leaders are still active in Iran. One of them, according to a U.S. official, is Abu Mousab al Zarqawi, chief of al-Qaeda's ally Ansar al-Islam. His alleged presence in northern Iraq was cited by Bush as evidence of a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda to help justify the U.S. invasion...
...DETAINED. AUNG SAN SUU KYI, 57, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Burma's National League of Democracy (NLD) party; by Burma's military junta after riots occurred last Friday during her trip to the northern town of Yaway Oo. Govern-ment spokesmen stated that Suu Kyi, who had been released from house arrest in May 2002, was in "protective custody" along with 17 other NLD leaders. Police also sealed off the NLD headquarters in Rangoon...
...prestigious All-Union State Cinema Institute in 1981 (Afghanistan was then under Soviet control), and a decade later he landed the directorship of the government-run Afghan Film Studio in Kabul. When the Taliban took the city, Barmak fled to the north, where he made documentaries for the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was later assassinated by al-Qaeda. Next he escaped to Pakistan, where he starred in a radio soap opera for Afghan refugees. His moviemaker friends from the studio weren't so lucky. Barmak returned to Kabul after the fall of the Taliban, to find...
...presence of embeds might curb the worst excesses of the troops. Fat chance. Two embed teams have witnessed T.N.I. atrocities and been warned-in one case, on pain of death-not to report them. "Before, the embeds were afraid of GAM," says an Indonesian colleague in Lhokseumawe in northern Aceh. "Now, they're more afraid of the T.N.I...
...clear. First, saturate the benighted countryside with trigger-happy soldiers and flush out any GAM suspects on a tsunami of civilian blood. Second, frighten into silence anyone who dares to report on the gory consequences, such as the summary execution of eight young men and boys at Peusangan in northern Bireun district. The Indonesian government has told foreign journalists and aid workers to stay out of the province, because it does not want Aceh's plight to be internationalized as East Timor's was. But reporters are not the only ones who have been intimidated. Fearful of reprisals from...