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Azahari Husin's luck finally ran out. After three years on the run in Indonesia, the master bombmaker--who on several occasions slipped away just before police showed up--was killed last week when a U.S.-trained antiterrorism unit raided a house he had rented in the mountain resort town of Batu in East Java. Azahari, 48, responded to officers' calls for surrender by shooting and hurling 11 explosive charges. A four-hour standoff ended when police shot him before he could detonate the explosives vest he was wearing. His companion then set off a bomb that brought down...
France always thought it had one last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die--Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city...
...bill would give protection to some ten thousand foreign suspects.Supporters of torture often point to the “ticking bomb” scenario—in which torturing one suspect could potentially save thousands of lives—as a justifiable reason to consider torture as a last resort. But to think primarily in terms of such TV scenarios is unrealistic given that we never have all the important pieces of information to make such judgments. In the experience of Army Col. Stuart Herrington, a military intelligence specialist who conducted interrogations in Vietnam, Panama, and Iraq during Desert Storm...
...chimps and gorillas monkey around at close range. Fuengirola Zoo specializes in captive breeding for endangered species, chimpanzee-group research and tropical-forest education. And in summer, it opens its doors until midnight so that guests can observe its many nocturnal creatures in action. A pleasant diversion in a resort where nocturnal creatures are often wilder?and far less appealing. tel: (34-952) 666 301; www.zoofuengirola.com
...these “intruders” still don’t get the hint after all of your indirect techniques, you may have to resort to bluntness. I mean, being courteous only gets you so far in life, right? Plus, despite the “nice guy” reputation you may have, these room dwellers probably don’t deserve the courtesy at this point...