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...members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast Asian network of Muslim militants blamed for numerous bombings region-wide, including the October 2002 attack in Bali that claimed 202 lives. Nyupeno flatly denies police allegations that a convicted Bali bomber, Ali Imron, had once taken refuge in one of the spartan cubicles at the rear of the mosque where the staff sleep. He also rebuts claims made by another bombing suspect during police interrogation that the school was used as a way station by militants traveling to and from the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines for combat training...
...weeknights were spent in my spartan New York University dorm room enjoying the E! Entertainment Network, followed by MTV’s Real World Paris. Even the gym had 10 television sets all tuned into different channels targeted at me and people like me: E!, MTV, MTV2, VH1, Comedy Central, ESPN and the major networks. And if I wanted to watch How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Sweet Home Alabama, or The Hours, NYU’s own movie channels were a part of my standard-equipped dorm package (free cable movie channels, yes; air conditioning...
While not every resident of One Western Avenue enjoys its spectacular river views, each and every resident, and every innocent passerby for that matter, is subjected to the building’s exterior. Flat and Spartan, the building’s face is decorated only by different sized windows in a seemingly random pattern and bricks of varying color and texture. Residents tended to outdo the critics in their creative assessments of the building, some commenting that it resembles “a hospital,” “a prison,” “a psychiatric...
...stardom on CNN as one of the smoothest and most antiwar of the corps of generals turned commentators during the Iraq war. So maybe it was not such a surprise that just 1 1/2 hours after Clark made another career leap last week, he could be found in his spartan Little Rock, Ark., office, remote control in hand, transfixed by the talking heads' first take on his newborn presidential campaign. "A placeholder for Hillary Rodham Clinton," Pat Buchanan huffed from the screen. "I think we're seeing the idea percolating here of a Clinton-Clark ticket." Clark sighed...
...targets. The group is getting faster with each mission. Immediately after receiving the midnight order to pursue the suspect in Nablus, Dan and his lieutenants began planning the raid, phoning nearby units to ask for extra vehicles, grenades and infrared light sticks to operate in the darkness. In a Spartan classroom at the Beit Lid base that functions as the unit's command center, Dan showed his troops magnified aerial images of Nablus' Old City, pointing out the target house and identifying positions for each soldier to take up on arrival. At 2 a.m., the unit piled into four armored...