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...threat? The 3-min. video, which was obtained under unspecified circumstances by the Intelcenter, a Washington, D.C., company that specializes in collecting counterterrorism information, was greeted with skepticism both in and out of China. Police in Shanghai and Kunming said the blasts weren't related to opposition to Chinese rule by ethnic Uighur Muslims in the country's far western province of Xinjiang. Police in Guangdong province also said they had no record of an explosion on the date mentioned in the video...
China's roughly 9 million Uighurs have long chafed under what critics describe as oppressive rule that reduces them to second-class citizens. Beijing, meanwhile, has trumpeted the threat from what it describes as secessionist groups bent on forming a breakaway state named East Turkestan. Some 60 people have been arrested this year alone for "terrorist activities," Becquelin notes, and as recently as July 9, two Uighurs were executed for allegedly plotting attacks; 15 others received lengthy prison sentences...
...days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I got a chilling insight into the brutality of his rule, in the most unexpected place - the compound of the Iraqi sports ministry. In one corner of a sprawling complex of offices and official residences, behind walls emblazoned with the universal symbol of the Olympic Games, was that most medieval of torture devices: an iron maiden...
...said that "Pakistan is reeling from rising radicalism and a slumping economy." You went on to call Pakistan "a failing state" and a sanctuary for terrorists. Why not focus on some good news? In the February elections, Pakistanis totally rejected religious extremism, voting instead for democracy and the rule of law. Pakistan's economy is hardly the only one in the world faced with rising food prices and unemployment. Nor is it the only Asian nation where radicalism, terrorism and extremism are rife. The extremists in Pakistan are a minority in a small area. Pakistan is not a failing state...
...France's ruling conservatives are celebrating the mothballing of what they've long derided as the most destructive legacy of Socialist rule: the 35-hour workweek. Late Wednesday, a government text gutting the left's decade-old labor innovation was voted into law, provoking cheers from rightist politicians that France Inc. could now better fulfill one of President Nicolas Sarkozy's key campaign slogans: "work more to earn more...