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...Israel to swap intelligence. The talks "impressed on me the absolute necessity for the public's participation in reporting suspicious activity and events," says FBI Assistant Director Van Harp, head of the Washington field office. He and other top bureau hands have been meeting with Arab, Muslim and Sikh leaders to solicit tips about potential suspects in emigre communities--and to promise that hate crimes against their communities will be aggressively pursued...
...SENTENCED. INDERJIT SINGH REYAT, 50, Sikh activist involved in the June 1985 mid-air bombing of an Air India flight that killed all 329 people aboard, to five years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to manslaughter; in Vancouver. Reyat admitted acquiring materials for the bomb, but denies knowing who built it and what it was to be used for. Reyat has already served a 10-year sentence in Britain for his involvement in a foiled attempt to blow up another Air India flight on the same day. The bombings were believed to be retaliation against the Indian government after it ordered...
...Many in India argue that there are few alternatives, since the country's judicial system is tainted by corruption and crippled by backlog. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, India's most famous cop for helping put down the Sikh insurgency in Punjab state in the 1990s, is blunt: "Our legal system doesn't work at all. If there are no legal remedies, there'll be extralegal ones...
...Mutt alone has never had this much success in his career," she says. "Never as consistently and never as big. It's what we do together that makes it so great." Since meeting Lange, Twain has become a strict vegetarian and a devotee of Sant Mat, a strain of Sikh mysticism that advocates hours of daily meditation, abstinence from sex and alcohol, and copious journal keeping as the path to self-realization. The whole picture has led some, including Twain's brother Darryl, to conclude that she has become, as he put it in a 2000 magazine interview, "a robot...
...People may think terrorists wear turbans, but they don't." HARPEET, British Sikh Indian, complaining about a video game where players enter and destroy a digital Sikh temple's "terrorist" inhabitants...