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With all four suspects apparently alive and their images captured on surveillance video, investigators launched a massive manhunt. The British last week were pursuing Haroon Rashid Aswat, a native Brit whom they consider "a central figure" in their investigation of the London blasts, although U.S. intelligence is uncertain about his role, a senior U.S. law-enforcement official says. The bombings, meanwhile, prompted New York City officials to institute random searches of subway riders' bags. "We are all wondering," says the U.S. official after a meeting with British agents. "There were four. Now eight. Are there 12?" --By J.F.O. McAllister. With...
...music videos and Egyptian sitcoms. These days, they almost always watch the news, usually on one of the many Arabic channels that offer endless images of death and desperation in Iraq. So grim is the mood that even escapist entertainment provides no relief. "The news is our life," says Rashid, one of my Iraqi co-workers. "And our life is the news." The sobering reality for the Bush Administration is that it's becoming harder to persuade Iraqis that either one is going to get much better...
...June 14, Dubai Crown Prince and United Arab Emirates Defence Minister His Royal Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum donated $13.6 million for the creation of the Maktoum-Harvard Library in Dubai Healthcare City...
...ambassador Britain recalled from Tashkent last year, says that Karimov is "indignant now that anyone should have the temerity to criticize him." The Uzbek government insists that a total of 169 people died in the confrontation - but not one civilian was killed by government forces, according to Prosecutor General Rashid Kadyrov. Andijan is still sealed off from the outside world, though, and hundreds of refugees have fled over the border into Kyrgyzstan. A group of diplomats and journalists was allowed to make a brief, tightly controlled visit last week, but they saw little. "There are still lots of troops...
...Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia, is one of four candidates being considered for a position as chair in Contemporary Middle East Studies at Princeton...