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Cauldron of Terror Your cover story on the making of terror suspect Ajmal Qasab, a village boy from Faridkot in Pakistan, paints a very grim picture of Pakistan's plight [March 16]. Scarcity of jobs for the youth and the flourishing of radical education facilities there, funded by Islamist elements from other countries, promise instability for the government. With a corrupted military and little consensus among Pakistan's politicians, one can only see a bleak future for its people. Premdayal Gupta, Indore, India...
...this stag universe, Diesel is the alpha and the omega male. One scene has him dangling a suspect from the high window of a tenement, then letting him go. Diesel fans know that if you let him into your apartment, you'd better clear the knickknacks off your freestanding shelving, because he's bound to throw somebody into it. Anybody else does this, you'd say he has anger issues - or, considering his character's surname, Toretto's syndrome. But Diesel doesn't get mad; he stays cooler than cool. The guy's an icebox...
...alarm about the problem - 16 out of 663 investigations led to the ouster of accused cops. By contrast, there's been an explosion in cases and convictions of "outrage," an offense based on anything from a bystander protesting unjustified arrest or violent treatment of someone by police to a suspect slandering peace officers or other public officials. Out of 31,800 court cases filed by police or prosecutors in 2006 for "outrage," nearly 14,000 ended with conviction - half of those involving jail terms. (See pictures of the British police clashing with protesters in London...
...study's examination of 14 cases of police brutality - one of which resulted in a suspect's death - gives compelling human voices to the abuse. But however damning the information contained in those accounts may be, the report provides little evidence to prove that the officers cleared in the hundreds of abuse cases deemed unsubstantiated each year benefited from a systemic whitewash...
...trial is the first time a coup plot has landed high-ranking military officials in court. The 40 soldiers now being held include a retired general and colonel believed to have cofounded JITEM, a secretive military-intelligence unit which many Kurds suspect is responsible for most of the dirty work in the southeast, including the extrajudicial killings of dozens of Kurdish activists. The Ergenekon trial - the group named itself after a mythic central Asian valley Turks believe they come from - "is a milestone," says Nuserivan Elci, who represents some 50 families of the 'missing' in Silopi. "It's a historic...