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...days in Ireland in May of last year and visited only a handful of police stations, but in that short period of time its investigation turned up evidence of three new cases in which fresh injuries were consistent with detainees' tales of beatings while in custody. The committee - an offshoot of the Council of Europe, an intergovernmental organization to protect human rights - highlighted "the number and consistency of the allegations of ill treatment" and called on the Irish authorities "to intensify their efforts to prevent ill-treatment by the police." The allegations contained in the CPT's report ranged from...
...appeared in several movies before finding her calling in broadcasting. The Hi Jinx radio show, with hosts Falkenburg and McCrary, first aired in 1946 and featured guest interviews as well as reports on such weighty topics as the atom bomb and venereal disease. Its success spawned a television offshoot called At Home that also starred the two. By the 1950s, the couple's franchise included two radio shows, a TV show and a column for the New York Herald Tribune. Tex and Jinx, as they were popularly known, separated in the 1980s. McCrary died in July...
...Outside the mosque, a third man, wired with explosives, walked into a cluster of worshipers and blew himself up. By the time police dispatched the gunmen, 47 people were dead and 65 wounded. Police defused two more bombs that could have killed hundreds more. Suspicion quickly fell on an offshoot of the banned Sunni radical group, Sipah-e-Sabah, whose preachers denounce Shi'ites as infidels and whose members have been accused of murdering Shi'ite doctors and lawyers. Police also believe that this group helped al-Qaeda carry out two suicide bombings last year in Karachi...
...were undereducated, unemployed and without hope of escaping Sidi Moumen's dilapidated, crowded, refuse-strewn streets - oases of despair where joblessness exceeds the estimated national rate of 20% and illiteracy runs over 50%. Such conditions are easily exploited by radical Islamist groups like the outlawed Salafia Jihadia and its offshoot Assirat al Moustaqim (Straight Path), which officials say recruited the bombers. "That's a major contrast with Islamist networks in the Gulf and Middle East, which rely mostly on the educated, cultivated upper-middle and affluent classes for members," notes a French terrorism official. "The Casablanca attackers were closer...
...offshoot of their campaign, a February New York Times article chronicled their efforts...