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...report published by the center in June, Gunaratna wrote, "There are multiple threat groups operating in China. But the group with proven capability to attack in China is the ETIM. Working with al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban, ETIM has been training members specifically to mount operations in China." He warns that although the group is small, the threat it poses to the Olympics is real because of the training and assistance it has received from al-Qaeda-linked groups. "To prevent attacks, it is essential for Beijing to develop a deeper understanding of the structures of each one of these...
...good for football, because if we ever got to the point where we knew what was going to happen, and it happened all the time, we wouldn?t have to play the game. And the fact that we don?t know what?s going to happen-and it was proven and it was proven in the biggest game of the year-I think just stamps this game as the great game that...
...public relations setback in 1997, when Indian police were quoted in the press saying that practitioners were suspects in the ritual slaughter of one of the Dalai Lama's close associates. (The suspects have never been tracked down or tried, however, and the Shugdenpas claim they were never proven to be devotees...
That has not stopped the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed, socially conservative Islamist party, from winning one-fifth of the seats in parliament with its members running as unaffiliated independents. Despite the legal roadblocks - Cairo decries the MB's history of terror - the party has proven popular at the grassroots level (its social organizations provide education and health services in the communities that the government does not reach). And so, when seats in what were presumably MB strongholds became vacant in 2005, the government found several legal reasons to postpone elections. Until last weekend...
...George W. Bush was, at best, one of hostility. The problem wasn't the Administration's policies - objectivity is still very much the goal - but the way those policies were expressed. Part of the problem had been Bush's two unsuccessful press secretaries: his first, Ari Fleischer, had proven capable but combative and condescending; his second, Scott McClellan, had been inadvertently caught up in misleading the press about the White House leak of the identity of a CIA officer...