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...former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but old soldiers in Pakistan never really retire, short of the funeral shroud. He is an éminence grise to be watched. Since its founding, Pakistan has fundamentally been a military state. For U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher to see Pakistan as a potentially "moderate, stable, democratic Muslim nation" shows considerable optimism. Michael Day-Thompson, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales...
...clean-skin, once used to describe drug traffickers without a record, morphed in the late 1990s to characterize potential terrorists who weren't on any watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its élite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
...Ring of Fire jokes: Johnny Cash's 13,880-sq.-ft. lakeside house has burned down. It's a loss to music history and a blow to the renovation plans of the house's new owner--the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb. But Cash's neighbor, Oak Ridge Boys singer Richard Sterban, sees a higher power behind the disaster, telling the AP, "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house." SCORE...
...know Kevin Costner had a band? Probably not. That's why Costner is suing his music promoter for, well, nonpromotion. "The lawsuit should have profound implications ... leaving promoters leery of ever taking on another [celebrity band]," notes blogsite DEFAMER, "lest Richard Gere and the Dolly Llamas sue them." SCORE...
...Richard Dowden is director of the Royal African Society, which promotes cooperation between Britain and African nations