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...same parliamentary commission recommended that foreign women exhibiting such signs of "radicalness" (presumably, like a veil) be denied residency, asylum, and citizenship. France has five million Muslims, more than any other country in Western Europe, and has had problems assimilating immigrants in the past. Therefore, fears of a London subway bombings-style act of violence by disenchanted Muslim youth are resonant Again, there is some truth to the idea that that veils often mark out some—although by no means all—Muslims who feel especially strongly about their faith. But just like it is unfair...
...plan," Najibullah Zazi said in a Brooklyn federal courtroom on Feb. 22, "was to conduct [a] martyrdom operation on subway lines in Manhattan." That scheme, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, represented "one of the most serious terrorist threats to our nation since Sept. 11, 2001." Zazi, who was arrested last September, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan...
Still, the movie is visually enticing and steadily engaging. The script is by Michael C. Martin, a former subway worker who wrote it hoping to win a $10,000 screenplay contest. He nabbed second place, despite lines like "These streets got an expiration date on them" which Don Cheadle, remarkably, almost manages to sell. Cheadle is intensely watchable - when isn't he? - but I'm not sure Tango could really have maintained his cover all those years. He's always discouraging violence or telling youngsters in the projects to go to college. The only time Cheadle convinced me Tango might...
...read a lot of this book on the subway and sometimes felt like I had to conceal the cover because I didn't want people to think I was plotting something. (Laughs.) I had the idea for a handbook of poisons in my head from the beginning. Poisoners are fascinating - they are the scariest killers because they are so cold at heart. What they do is premeditated: they plan, they plot and they wait. To me, they are the most amoral of all killers...
...cover the lens of the camera. Some reports allege that the Basij suppressed the Karroubi rally. Other protesters had planned to gather in Haft-e-Tir Square, northeast of Azadi. In addition, video circulated on opposition sites showing people tearing down government posters or chanting slogans in the subway. State-run television also mentioned small protests made up of hundreds on the edge of the big rally...