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...they fought on behalf of the Pakistani military, have now formed an alliance with ambitions on both sides of the border. The Shura Ittehad Mujahedin, or Council of United Jihadists, has declared war on the governments of the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan and proclaimed its fealty to Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban. (The Pakistani Taliban has, until now, been a separate if like-minded group.) In this instance, the drone war may actually have strengthened one of the most intractable militants operating in Pakistan...
...Last week, the Times reported the impending indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir by a pre-trial panel at the International Criminal Court. Having received Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo’s application for an arrest warrant in July 2008, the panel will likely issue the warrant within the next two weeks. At the same time, the Kenyan government is deliberating over whether to try suspected perpetrators of last year’s post-election violence or to ask the ICC to open an investigation. Likewise, the Palestinian Authority has asked the ICC to open an investigation into...
...debate raging over the Adams House email list: Is a wrap a sandwich? The question, credited to Chinh Vo ’09, set off a heated, house-wide argument when Kathleen Chen ’09 unleashed it on the Schmooze at the beginning of exam period. Omar Abdelsamad ’09, the former House Committee Co-Chair, was the first to weigh in: “I’m going to open this up by saying absolutely not. A sandwich has strict criteria and a wrap meets neither the bread nor the positioning requirements (bread, filling...
...immune system and let it know there’s a tumor in the body and it should try to destroy it,” Huebsch said. Current therapies involve reprogramming immune cells in a petri dish to recognize the patient’s particular tumor, said Omar A. Ali, one of the authors. But these cells have a low survival rate, requiring physicians to use large numbers of them to effectively treat tumors, said the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences associate. “These therapies have worked pretty well in many patients and are very promising...
...with reporting by Robert Horn/Bangkok, Coco Masters and Michiko Toyama/Tokyo, Madhur Singh/New Delhi, Jennifer Veale/Seoul and Omar Waraich/Islamabad...