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...year, the Canadian women were forced to play for the bronze when Britain beat them in the semifinals. The British went on to defeat the Swiss in an exciting (honest) gold-medal match that went down to the last stone. All the members of the British team hail from Scotland, which is appropriate since the sport traces its origins to the 16th century and frozen Scottish lochs. The 19-kg stones used in competition are still cut from Scottish granite...
Reid had another reason for choosing the Netherlands. The country, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, has become a center of al-Qaeda activity. In September, Dutch police raided houses in Rotterdam and picked up Jerome Courtailler, a French convert to Islam arrested as a suspected associate in the Paris-embassy plot and yet another young European who was known to have attended the Finsbury Park mosque. Dutch investigators now speculate that before he was arrested, Courtailler helped Reid find temporary employment in Rotterdam...
...NETHERLANDS New Evidence Five judges in the Lockerbie appeal case heard new evidence that lawyers say casts doubt on the conviction of a Libyan for the downing of a Pan Am airliner over Scotland in 1988. A former security guard at Heathrow Airport said that he discovered a break-in at the restricted baggage area about 18 hours before the New York-bound flight took off from London. One of the appeal judges agreed earlier that the bomb that downed the plane, killing 270 people, may not have been loaded in Malta as argued in the original trial...
...Reid had another reason for choosing the Netherlands. The country, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on terrorism at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, has become a center of al-Qaeda activity. In September, Dutch police raided houses in Rotterdam and picked up Jerome Courtailler, a French convert to Islam arrested as a suspected associate in the Paris-embassy plot and yet another young European who was known to have attended the Finsbury Park mosque. Dutch investigators now speculate that before he was arrested, Courtailler helped Reid find temporary employment in Rotterdam...
DIED. JOSHUA MINER, 81, educator who launched the U.S. version of the wilderness self-reliance program Outward Bound; in Andover, Mass. Miner--who had met founder Kurt Hahn in Scotland in 1950--began in Colorado in 1961 with 80 teenagers; 600,000 students, including former President Jimmy Carter, have since taken the course...