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...totally unsubstantiated." His case follows arrests in October 2001, when U.S. officials in Bosnia picked up six Algerians accused of plotting attacks on British and U.S. embassies, and later deported them to Guantanamo Bay. Meanwhile, four al-Qaeda suspects - two Algerians, a Frenchman and a Dutch national of Eritrean origin - went on trial last week in the Netherlands on charges of running a support network for planned attacks on the U.S. embassy in Paris. And in Britain, investigators detained, under the Terrorism Act, but later released Hassan Butt, 22, a member of the radical Al-Muhajiroun group. They...
...threatened and attempted attacks during the holiday season since 1999, and we have to assume it will be the same this year," says a French official. In an effort to disrupt any potential strikes, French authorities last week arrested Slimane Khalfaoui, a 27-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin and a veteran of jihads in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Material evidence ties Khalfaoui to a Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it prepared an attack on Strasbourg Cathedral. Khal-faoui has also been linked to "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, an al-Qaeda operative convicted...
...staff is rightly concerned that American citizens and residents of Iraqi origin might be unfairly targeted if war breaks out in the Middle East. Sadly, one of the continual refrains of American wartime policy has been for the government to limit the liberties of groups deemed to be potential threats; the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II is the most prominent example...
...Class of 1890 description of the “sorrow songs,” and builds on heart-rendingly bare renditions of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “Down in Egypt Land,” giving a beautiful account of the origin and progression of spirituals...
...Origin of the Species