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This isn't the first media firestorm to provoke speculation about whether the controversial Commissioner may be forced out of his job before his contract expires in 2010. In July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian living in London, was mistaken by police marksmen for a suicide bomber and...
The case highlights the intense pressure the constant threat of terrorism places on the Met, which leads all counterterrorism investigations in Britain as well as those affecting British nationals abroad. A New York Police Department (NYPD) official who has worked closely with the Met says the scale of London's...
But Abbas hasn't been killing any fellow Iraqis lately - or even Americans, his group's primary target. In fact, the vast militia of radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has been relatively well-behaved since al-Sadr called on his followers to stand down and allow Iraqi government...
"My hunch is that this is a media-driven operation," says Nicholas Bequelin, chief China researcher for Human Rights Watch, based in New York City. "The goal is to help it to recruit people to the cause or attract attention" at a time when the eyes of the world are...
Whether Karadzic was accorded such assistance is only one of several outstanding mysteries. What's telling now in the Belgrade operation is who took the credit for finding Karadzic - and who did not. "We have just jumped over a big hurdle on the pathway toward European integration," said Defense Minister...