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...Jersey - pockets of support have been unearthed in most places where foreign veterans of the Afghan war are to be found. Earlier this year, a New York court convicted a former Egyptian army major of doing intelligence work for Bin Laden's networks - Ali Mohammed had also been a sergeant in the U.S. Army. And the Algerians arrested last December for allegedly smuggling explosives into the U.S. are suspected of working with Bin Laden, even though they had been linked with Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front - a group that has not traditionally targeted the U.S. That suggests a growing tendency...
Timothy Woodland is in a grave predicament. The 6-ft. 4-in., 24-year-old Air Force staff sergeant sits in a jail cell in Okinawa, Japan. He goes on trial next month in a proceeding that could last as long as a year. He has already been through Japan's standard detention period--15 days in his case but sometimes as long as 23--during which a suspect is questioned without the presence of a lawyer. Denied bail, Woodland can comfort himself with English-language books, a Bible and American-style meals but no cigarettes, TV or air conditioning...
...Force Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland, 1.9 m tall and 24 years old, now resides in a jail cell behind the Okinawa district court. Denied bail, he will live here through his trial, which will begin in September and could last as long as a year. He's got English-language books, a Bible and American-style meals, but no cigarettes, TV or air-conditioning. He isn't allowed to speak or write to friends and family. His mother Arlene Jordan, who works in the engineering services department at the Army's Fort Eustis in Hampton, Virginia, says she used...
...SOFA be revised. Koizumi agreed it needed work; U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, on a visit in mid-July, flatly refused. Outrage mounted to a point that it seemed almost an offering to better U.S.-Japan relations when the Air Force did, eventually, give Woodland up. Staff Sergeant Woodland was arrested July 6, a week after the incident, and indicted on rape charges 15 days later...
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