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...leader's speech as well as news reports that I, too, had seen on state TV. He said the leader was right, that it was impossible to rig 11 million votes and that those creating the chaos were foreign agitators. "The students claim five were killed in a raid to their dormitories. They showed one of the students who they claimed was dead. He was doing just fine and wasn't even a resident of that dormitory," the middle-aged driver from the southern city of Yazd said with evident sincerity...
...police raid found more damaging evidence after raiding another Salafist group in Sarajevo. In one apartment the cops found about 44 lb. (20 kg) of explosives, and a training video of how to construct suicide-bomb belts. In Sarajevo I met Bajro Ikanovic, 32, one of the four men arrested for plotting terrorist attacks as a result of that raid. Sitting in a café during a four-day furlough from prison, he told me he has converted several young men to militant Islam, and has pressed them to consider fighting to defend their religion. "Muslims who do not preach...
...bush, someone will report them to us." The one Bosnian who repeatedly claims to have trained and fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan - citing gory details of how he supposedly slit the throat of an Australian soldier - remains free. Nihad Cosic was arrested in a 2007 police raid in Pakistan, but released for lack of evidence and flown home to Sarajevo. In April he offered his most recent description of his years fighting with al-Qaeda to Austrian and German journalists visiting Sarajevo. Yet Bosnian police have not sought to arrest him for terrorism, and last year an intelligence official...
...common enemy: Iran. The two countries needed to cooperate in order to prevent Iraq from becoming supplicant to the Shi'ite mullahs in Tehran - a fear commonly expressed by Sunnis. Eventually the imam gave up the location of a safe house for suicide bombers; a raid on the house led to the capture of an al-Qaeda operative who in turn led U.S. troops to al-Zarqawi. (See pictures of U.S. troops' 6 years in Iraq...
...reaction of passersby who witnessed the Beijing raid in March gives an indication of the suspicion with which the chengguan are held by average citizens. Hundreds of people surrounded the van, shouted at its occupants and even attempted to turn the vehicle over. "Many of them stood up for us, accusing the thugs of beating a defenseless old woman," says Yuan. It was only around 6 p.m., seven hours after the clash began, that the crowd allowed the van to escape...