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Mughogho, northern regional chair of the Malawi Forum for Unity and Development, was arrested on Sept. 17 for protesting President Bakili Muluzi’s decision to alter the constitution and seek a third term as leader of the southern African country...
...Crimson is likely to face the Tigers and the Midshipmen again at the Northern Championships to be held at Blodgett Pool this weekend. Despite last weekend’s results, the team feels confident it will place well...
...summer of 2001, Khan, 28, was pining for his young Afghan bride, who had gone to Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan to show off the couple's new baby to relatives. So Khan set off after them, traveling for a week by hitching rides on buses and trucks that were headed over icy mountain ranges. But soon after he arrived, the war swept him away. After the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance captured Mazar-e-Sharif from the Taliban, his parents heard nothing from him. "We were sure he'd been killed," says Azeem. Khan was a Pashtun...
...Guantanamo has, in fact, turned out to be a windfall for America's Afghan confederates. According to Pakistani detainees, the U.S. military paid the Northern Alliance $5,000 for each captive who confessed to being a Taliban and $20,000 for each purported al-Qaeda fighter. With that incentive, the prisoners claim the allied commanders grabbed any Pakistani wandering dazed around the battlefield, then extracted confessions by force...
Friday, at a memorial service in front of the Minnesota state capitol, a preacher told the crowd, “We cannot park the green bus.” If it were a practical choice, Wellstone probably would have taken the bus up to northern Minnesota for the funeral he was scheduled to attend. He was known to hate and fear flying in those small planes...