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...detainees, and so far they?re not hearing much of immediate value. According to a Belgian official, when police asked Nizar Trabelsi - the ex-footballer arrested on Sept. 13 for his alleged role in a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris - why he had a Uzi submachine pistol in his Brussels apartment, he cited "sentimental reasons." Key prisoners like Bensakhria and the once talkative Beghal, alleged leader of the Paris plot, aren?t yielding up much either...
...frustrated with the stinginess from Belgium that they called the New York Times and gave the paper a blistering story that ran last Wednesday. Since then Belgium has offered official expressions of solidarity with America, but U.S. officials remain dissatisfied. "We wanted an opportunity to examine the machine pistol that was allegedly found when they arrested Trabelsi," said the source. "That still has not taken place." Last week Belgian Justice Minister Marc Verwilghen told TIME that "Belgium wants to cooperate with American law enforcement" but strict evidentiary rules made it difficult. He also said his ministry's influence is hampered...
...They are dressed in camouflage with balaclavas pulled over their faces and guns in their hands. I watch in horror as my colleague is pulled from the seat next to me. I feel hands forcing me out of the car, shoving me onto the ground. The barrel of a pistol digs into the back of my neck. A burlap sack is pulled over my head and tightened by a cord. The world has gone dark, and I hear nothing but footsteps on snapping twigs and my own rapid breathing under the heavy cloth. I am terrified - and this...
...their strict code of Pashtunwali, in which honor and revenge are paramount. In the village of Shakot, gunsmith Aziz Khan glanced up from a lathe as he bored holes to craft a homemade Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes acquainted with guns. Every man and boy will defend bin Laden and the Taliban against America. It would be dishonorable not to protect him." Among Musharraf's first tasks in coming weeks will be to ensure the support of Pakistan...
...their strict code of Pashtunwali, in which honor and revenge are paramount. In the village of Shakot, gunsmith Aziz Khan glanced up from a lathe as he bored holes to craft a homemade Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes acquainted with guns. Every man and boy will defend bin Laden and the Taliban against America. It would be dishonorable not to protect him." Among Musharraf's first tasks in coming weeks will be to ensure the support of Pakistan...