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...more surreal errors in post-9/11 America. Agents from a rainbow spectrum of agencies occupied Kurtz's home for several days, blocking off his street and setting up a biohazard shower to hose down investigators leaving the residence. (click here for a video about the raid created by Kurtz's art ensemble.) Agents would not let Kurtz retrieve his cat, Bean. Having lost his wife, his home and his pet in the span of 48 hours, Kurtz decided to get a lawyer. He told a friend at one point, "I just need to pretend Hope is alive so that...
...investigation, Kurtz and a group of artists have created "Seized," a small but mesmerizing exhibit made out of the refuse, scraps and assorted detritus that FBI agents left inside and outside of his house. "I started thinking," says Kurtz, remembering the day he returned to his house after the raid, "they went through my trash, so maybe I'll go through theirs...
...July 7 suicide bombing at the Indian embassy in Kabul, above, that killed 41 people--the capital's deadliest since 2001. Pakistan denied involvement, while dealing with its own carnage: a July 6 bombing in Islamabad killed at least 18 on the one-year anniversary of a deadly government raid on the city's Red Mosque, and a series of small explosions rocked Karachi on July...
Suspicions of a state raid on BP's Russian assets aren't surprising. Relations between the countries, already chilled by Britain's refusal to expel various critics of Russia's government, have been in a deep freeze since the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Still, in the case of TNK-BP, it's hard to make out a government agenda. The squabble over work permits was at least partially resolved once it became public, and suspicions of tax evasion stem from the years prior to BP's involvement. Resolving the conflict, Medvedev has said...
...cause of the Red Mosque and refers to it often in his public condemnations of Musharraf's government. Mullah Fazlullah, the leader of a militant group that took over the once popular tourist destination of Swat valley has sworn to avenge the death of those lost in the raid...