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...full black chador. "The police barge into the house early in the morning and accuse me of having al-Qaeda connections." Last year police netted a cache of antitank mines in Rustempasic's family house, and imprisoned him for two months; Rustempasic and three others were arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities, but they were released due to a lack of evidence. Rustempasic says the weaponry was wartime trash from the 1990s, and claims he is being hounded for his Salafi beliefs. Still, his talk is disquieting. "There is a religious thought that Muslims are one body...
...convinced that Obama could change the context of the relationship with Iran. An Obama presidency, he thought, could transform the Iranian image of America and "make it easier to explain your policies and get more of a hearing" from Tehran, Ross told me last July. "Iran's almost reflexive suspicion of the U.S. would be removed. That's not insignificant." (See pictures of Bush in the Middle East...
...these prophets is Hosea, who is thought to have written in the 8th century B.C.E. Rejecting a Solomonic view - that immersion in the larger world could make Israel richer - Hosea insists the game is zero-sum: when Israel "mixes himself with the peoples ... foreigners devour his strength." Hosea's suspicion of the foreign isn't surprising. Israel, a small nation in a tough neighborhood, often did get pushed around...
...would be justified in asking itself, What will stop Blair from taking another key station - Baghdad, for instance? Blair is a Navy officer, and the suspicion is that his grab for Kabul has something to do with a plan for the Pentagon to assume the CIA's authority. What's more, it's not as if Blair's argument is without merit. We are in the middle of two inconclusive wars, and the Pentagon needs good, detailed tactical intelligence on these two countries, so why shouldn't Blair cater to the Pentagon's needs, possibly even appoint a uniformed military...
...Disaster-management and human-rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe revealed that the three doctors - T. Varatharajah, T. Sathyamurthi and V. Shanmugarajah - had been detained by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and are being investigated for suspicion of working with the Tigers. The three doctors remained in the shrinking combat zone during heavy battles in May and crossed over to government-held areas only three days before the government announced the death of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, signifying the effective end of the Tigers' long insurgency. (See pictures inside Sri Lanka's rebel-held territory...