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...Karzai has one particularly good reason to bridle at Washington's refusal to help solve Afghanistan's woes: the U.S. has become a major part of the problem. By backing the Northern Alliance, Washington has empowered a group of warlords of minority Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek descent to rule over the Pashtuns?Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and the bedrock of Taliban support. And by rearming the warlords to hunt down al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the U.S. has also unwittingly helped fuel further conflict. According to U.N. special representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, "The war against terrorism creates...
ITALY Drive-by Killing Two men on a motorcycle shot dead government labor law adviser Marco Biagi on the street in the northern city of Bologna, and raised the specter of renewed urban terrorism. The day after Biagi's murder an offshoot of the Red Brigades movement, which was responsible for a wave of killings in the 1970s and 1980s, claimed that they had "executed" the economist and law professor for "regulation of the exploitation of salaried workers...
Castlereagh was supposed to be secure. The small complex of squat brick buildings in east Belfast houses the divisional headquarters of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the armed service that operates across the province. Castlereagh is also a nest of spies, a base from which the secret wing of the police, Special Branch, trades information with British military intelligence and MI5, Britain's internal security service, about loyalist and republican terrorists. Room 220 is where informers working inside paramilitary groups arrange meetings with police. And it was here that the burglars struck...
John Reid, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, flew back from America after the raid to declare a breach of national security. Such a high state of alert is justified, he says, because of the important nature of intelligence work. Reid told Time that in the past year at least three "potentially disastrous terrorist attacks have been thwarted" by Special Branch and other agencies. Critics say there may be other reasons. Intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland have always bent the law, but there are persistent suggestions that they routinely broke it - even to the point of murder...
...with a criminal investigation - but his report is "unlikely" to be made public. By invoking national security, Reid also has the power to freeze out any political scrutiny. Denis Bradley, vice-chairman of the new board set up to oversee policing, fumed: "I have yet to meet anyone in Northern Ireland who believes this is anything other than the government looking after its own needs." These are delicate days for policing in Northern Ireland. There are still struggles over how much light to cast on the murky role of intelligence agencies. At a time when the spies should be retiring...