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...their ancestral homeland. The agents, who will operate with Yemeni government permission, also hope to find more evidence against the "Buffalo Six." But there are questions about the strength of the government's case. When the six suspects were hauled into federal court last week, the prosecution's request that bail be denied was met with considerable skepticism. "I haven't heard of any act of violence or propensity of violence in the history of these individuals," said U.S. Magistrate H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr. In fact, the 1996 antiterrorism statute being used to prosecute the suspects can be an unwieldy...
...pregnancy. This is particularly shocking to see in predominantly liberal, democratic states. In a survey conducted two years ago by the Mass. NARAL Foundation indicates that over 50 percent of Massachusetts’s hospitals and community health centers fail to provide this emergency contraceptive consistently to women who request it. Of those, only a quarter provide accurate referrals to another accessible health care provider...
...Typical was the incident last December when Spanish authorities requested the arrest of Parlindungan Siregar, who allegedly ran military training at a JI/al-Qaeda camp near Poso on the island of Sulawesi. Despite being under 24-hour surveillance by intelligence operatives and having his mobile phone conversations recorded, Parlindungan vanished as soon as the Spanish request was received. Tellingly, his current whereabouts remain well known to the authorities, says a senior foreign intelligence source: "I was told [by Indonesian officials], 'you can go and talk to him if you want. We'll give you his address in Yogyakarta.'" Seeking to increase...
...Room of Winthrop House about his decision to sign the petition. He refused, citing “other priorities.” I can imagine few priorities more pressing than to justify to his students why he is willing to single out Israel for special criticism. Accordingly, I hereby request an invitation from the students of Winthrop House to conduct such a debate, either with Hanson present or with an empty chair on which the petition which he signed would be featured...
...Harvard African Student’s Association (HASA) and its alumni organization, Harvard African Students Association Network, contacted University President Lawrence H. Summers to ask for an official request from the University to the government of Malawi for Mughogho’s release...