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...concerned, they already have. The 30-year-old Malaysian fisherman was on his usual night run for shrimp and squid a few kilometers off the western coast of peninsular Malaysia in June when his 9-m wooden vessel was approached by a rifle-toting group he assumed were policemen. "They fired some shots in the air and told me to get on their boat. They were young, about 25 years old, and grim-faced, looking like some gang from a movie, some of them wearing bandanas around their heads, all carrying rifles and a few with grenade launchers...
...bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, which killed at least 10 people. Officials say the arrests could lead them to the blast's alleged mastermind, Malaysian Azahari bin Husin. Burning Question MEXICO Riot police arrested more than 30 people in connection with the murder of two undercover policemen, who were beaten and set on fire by a mob that suspected them of kidnapping children. A third officer was hospitalized in critical condition. Officials launched an inquiry into why it took reinforcements so long to reach the scene. Laying Down Arms COLOMBIA Some 450 members of the paramilitary United Self...
...Mosul, emerging from the shadows in groups numbering up to 50 fighters at a time to brazenly confront U.S. and Iraqi government forces in broad daylight. Within a day of pronouncing Fallujah essentially over, U.S. forces were mounting a major offensive in Mosul, aimed at returning Iraqi policemen to police stations throughout the western half of the city that had fallen into insurgent hands. And Ramadi, Samarrah, Baquba, Tal Afar and Baghdad itself have all seen intensified rebel attacks over the past week...
...People climbed on top of the T stop, on top of garbage cans and on top of the information booth. I heard one thirty-ish man say to his friend, “Oh, to be in college again.” After a while, Cambridge policemen in comical riot gear—round helmets, vests, nightsticks—shined their flashlights up at the people standing on the information booth and told them to get down, please. They did. The band played “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” and everyone sang along...
...Leigh's Vera Drake is just such a film. He's famously a realist (Life Is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies) and never more so than in this film. He simply recounts the story with unblinking objectivity. The almost comic cluelessness of Vera's family, the phlegmatic spirit of the policemen processing her case, the attitudes of her patients, ranging from the hysterical to the cool--they are all there. Yet there's nothing forced or movieish in Leigh's treatment...