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...have had friends in strange places. In January the Wall Street Journal published an astonishing tale. Journal reporters in Kabul purchased a secondhand computer whose hard drive contained thousands of files written by al-Qaeda members. One file was a detailed account of the travels last summer of "Abdul Ra'uff," who flew from the Netherlands to Israel, Egypt and Turkey scouting locations for terrorist attacks. Abdul Ra'uff's itinerary matched one known to have been taken at the same time by Reid. FBI analysts now firmly believe that Reid and Ra'uff are the same man. Moreover...
...machine, and flew to Israel on an El Al flight. Once in Israel, according to security sources there, Reid spent most of his time in Tel Aviv, where he cased the mall and office complex called the Azrieli Center as well as the local bus and train stations. ("Abdul Ra'uff" also checked security at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.) After 10 days in Israel, Reid crossed into Egypt and from there flew to Turkey and back to Pakistan before being debriefed (if the Journal's Abdul Ra'uff is in fact Reid) in Afghanistan...
Some Arab commentators have also recently questioned the unofficial involvement of thousands of Arabs in the Afghan wars. "The time has come to let Afghanistan be," wrote Shafik Nazim al-Ghabra in the Kuwaiti daily al-Ra'i al-Aam on Nov. 23. "The time has come to stop exporting the Arab world's problems to neighboring societies." That paper has been critical of the Taliban from the start, but al-Ghabra's article was particularly bitter. Other Muslim journalists have written articles in the past few weeks about the misinterpretations of the Koran that led some of those Arabs...
...solely the physical aspects of the project that concern the artists. “A lot of us do political art. We want to do more than make pretty [things]. We want to say something with our art,” notes Bastian. Govignon says RA lets artists explore “how art can be used for social change.” For instance, an installation at the Muddy River by Jay Kamins put objects such as tea kettles and bottles that were on the river bed on pedestals to bring attention to the pollution of the water. NEST...
...RA is still looking for help on the artwork. Up until the day the installation is made, the Adams Squash courts will be occupied every Tuesday and Thursday from 4pm to 9pm by RA and their student collaborators. When the artwork is hung, it will dominate the front of the Holyoke Center, catching anyone’s eye who passes by. The approaching date is exciting to Bastian. “I’ve been living and breathing the project for the last several months, and it’s great to see it finally coming together...