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...name of holding lessons on Islam," says a government source. "No one suspected anything, and it was considered a good thing." The meetings, which attendees sometimes referred to as "motivation courses," actually featured diatribes against the Malaysian government and calls to Islamic activism. Students who displayed the proper ardor were sent by Azahari to Afghanistan, according to the police. After the Bali blasts, Azahari went on the run, probably fleeing to southern Thailand, although Malaysian police say he continued to use his campus e-mail account to communicate with fellow jihadis...
Investigators will also want to determine whether the club had instituted proper safeguards in the event of a fire. Survivors of the West Warwick blaze say nearly the entire crowd tried to escape through the front door of the club, in part because the Station's three other emergency exits were obscured by the thick black smoke. How many people could have made it out in time by exiting through another door will never be known. The intensity of the conflagration was staggering; witnesses say the building was entirely ablaze three minutes after the fire started. When rescuers arrived...
...foreign policy has often supported these same brutal dictators--including Saddam--when they have been on "our side." Bush's use of the word evil comes close to being evil--to the extent that it gives this war a religious justification (which Christians should resist). For Christians, the proper home for the language of evil is the liturgy: it is God who deals with evil, and it's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only God can do. Advocates of "just war" should be the first to object to the language of evil because...
Grieving family members of those who perished in the Feb. 18, Taegu, Korea, subway conflagration claim local authorities are bungling the investigation and protecting officials who may not have observed proper safety and rescue procedures during the blaze that killed, at latest count, 197. Police revealed on Feb. 25 that subway authorities edited out several incriminating minutes of taped conversation between a train conductor and the control station before making the tape public. Among the previously deleted portions: An order to the conductor to "kill the car"?to remove the carriage's master key and flee. There was no discussion...
...means does patron care absolve owners and operators of public gathering places of their responsibilities as well. They must be thorough and vigilant in the upkeep and proper operation of their facilities. Design limits must be known and must be maintained at a high enough standard. Municipal authorities, often known for laxity or petty corruption, must recognize the life-threatening importance of their work and strive to establish and enforce adequate and sensible building codes, particularly in buildings open for public use. Western European standards for such buildings are often cited as being nearly ideal, and should be investigated...