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...hand. President Bush may rail against Syria's ruthless dictatorship, but his own security agencies happily cooperate with Syria's unlovely secret police in fighting al-Qaeda - Canada is up in arms, right now, over the case of a Syrian-born Canadian arrested in transit in New York on suspicion of al-Qaeda links and "deported" to Syria, where he was repeatedly tortured over more than a year in custody. And it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it is precisely because the secret police in countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are not restrained...
...turns to a group of Muslim children huddled together at the front of the crowd. "Are children terrorists?" he asks. "No," the children meekly reply. "Say it again! Are children terrorists?" "No!" the children shout back. The tussle over the King Fahd Academy is emblematic of the fear and suspicion that have existed between Muslims and some of their neighbors since Sept. 11. German counterterrorism investigators are still smarting over revelations that some of the al-Qaeda operatives involved in those attacks masqueraded for years as foreign students in Hamburg. They're determined not to let the same thing happen...
...Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until the country's authorities barred him from entry in 1994 on suspicion of providing funding to Islamic militants and possible involvement in a plot to blow up 12 U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Abdeljalil, whom authorities claim works for Khalifa, is currently being held in Manila for interrogation...
...entertain, to be fabulous, much like “Sex and the City” and “Friends.” Do we honestly believe that Carrie Bradshaw or Rachel Green represent the average heterosexual woman? Where’s the outrage there? I have a sneaking suspicion the genuine concern is related to image. What if my heterosexual co-workers watch “Queer Eye” and assumes that I get pedicures and back waxes? Apparently it never occurred to these men that someone who judges an entire population based on a makeover show perhaps...
...Nowhere has this newfound confidence been on display more than in China's rapidly improving international relations. Under communist rule, Chinese foreign policy had often been marked by suspicion and a certain belligerent petulance. But in the past few months, under Hu's leadership, Beijing has emerged as an increasingly sophisticated and mature player on the global stage, a power more intent on diplomatic pragmatism that preserves the country's robust economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director...