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...Islam Karimov as an ally. But Human Rights Watch this week noted that President Karimov is using the war on terror as an excuse to mount a massive crackdown on all Muslims who want to practice their faith independently of the government. Some observers believe that this week's outbreak of bombings and shootings directed against the police in Uzbek cities may be rooted not only in local al-Qaeda linked groups, but also in response to President Karimov's repression of a far wider group of Muslims...
...burden on the already stretched combat resources available to Coalition commanders. The European peacekeepers deployed in the southern towns came to Iraq believing they would be operating in a relatively benign environment, freeing up U.S. forces for counterinsurgency actions in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle. But the outbreak of hostilities in the southern cities has put troops from Italy, Spain, El Salvador, Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria on the front lines. The Bulgarian government called on Wednesday for U.S. reinforcements to help its 450 soldiers under fire in Karbala, while the Ukrainian contingent at Kut was chased out of town...
...course, to be fair, I should note that there hasn’t been an outbreak of gastroenteritis in the Dunster dining hall for nearly three years. But that can perhaps be attributed more to the hardy Dunsterites’ immune systems finally acclimating to the harsh intestinal bugs in the Central American water (I’ve heard the syndrome referred to as “Cabotzuma’s Revenge”) than to any hygiene improvement on the part of the Dunster women...
...rights of citizens might have been buttressed by the Daily's scoop?but at a price. Officials in Guangdong province had previously censured the paper for its aggressive coverage of last year's SARS outbreak. At 3 a.m. on March 19?one year to the day after Sun was killed?authorities raided the Guangzhou home of Daily editor Cheng Yizhong, confiscating books, magazines and computer documents and taking him into custody. Last week, two senior staff members of the paper were sentenced to hefty jail terms on charges of corruption. (The prosecution said the two had embezzled company money. Their...
...proposal is that the June 4 student movement of 1989 should be reappraised as a patriotic movement." JIANG YANYONG, retired Chinese military physician who exposed the seriousness of last year's SARS outbreak in Beijing, in a letter calling on China's leaders to reassess their classification of the Tiananmen Square protests as a "counterrevolutionary rebellion...