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...Pakistani Interior Ministry says al-Libbi was tracked down through monitored telephone intercepts and details extracted from a band of Pakistani militants arrested on Feb. 27 near Mardan, a town 40 miles north of Peshawar. A police source says al-Libbi may have stayed near a Muslim shrine there before his capture...
...instigated by the governments of China and South Korea. But provocation also comes from Japan and its textbooks, which are criticized for whitewashing history. There are rabid nationalists in every country. It is upsetting to South Koreans and Chinese for the Japanese Prime Minister to regularly visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese soldiers - including convicted war criminals from World War II. Would Europeans feel comfortable trading with Germany if Chancellor Gerhard Schröder regularly met with those who deny the Holocaust? Ovidia Yu Singapore
...glance, the timing looked impeccably bad. With emotions between China and Japan still raw after weeks of anti-Japanese protests in major Chinese cities, 80 Japanese Diet members and the personal representatives of 86 others assembled at 8:00 a.m. last Friday to pay their respects at the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo. No ordinary center of Shinto worship, Yasukuni is where the souls of 2.5 million Japanese war dead are enshrined. Since 1978, when 14 of Japan's most notorious World War II war criminals were added to the books of veneration there, Japan's neighbors have considered...
...There continues to be no better symbol of the two countries' inability to bridge their differences than the Yasukuni Shrine. In Tokyo this week, the rumor mill was working overtime, with suggestions that Koizumi has agreed to skip a visit this year as a gesture of good faith to the Chinese. That may or may not turn out to be the case. Yasukuni is controversial in Japan?some lawmakers say trips to the shrine are counterproductive. But others emphasize that those Japanese politicians who want to go to Yasukuni will never be compelled to stop simply because China asks them...
...second part of Fitzpatrick’s preparation was to get the virtually unknown Ivy prospect some national exposure. In January, he participated in both senior all-star bowls—the East-West Shrine Game and the Hula Bowl—and the NFL Combine in March...