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...July 22 two Muslim men were arrested on suspicion of shooting dead an Islamic teacher in Pattani more than seven months ago. But such arrests are conspicuously rare. Inadequate intelligence gathering is largely to blame. Angered by state repression and fearful of militant reprisals, Muslims are unwilling to volunteer information to military and civilian authorities, who in turn are reluctant to share it with one another. So far, no weapons caches or bomb factories have been found. "The intelligence record is dismal," says Abuza...
...compromised by the TSA notifying people we don't want to know we're pursuing," says an FBI agent. But the FBI can't always blame the TSA. FBI agents were tracking Umer and Hamid Hayat, the father and son from Lodi, Calif., who were arrested June 5 on suspicion of being linked to al-Qaeda. (They have pleaded not guilty.) Hamid was also on the TSA's no-fly list and could not return to the U.S., where the FBI was waiting to question him. But it turned out that an FBI agent in Sacramento had placed his name...
...state officials, under pressure to combat a spike in pain-killer abuse, are waging an escalating war on drugs that is spilling into the waiting rooms of neighborhood doctors. Over the past six years, more than 5,600 physicians from Alaska to West Virginia have been investigated on suspicion of "drug diversion." Some doctors allegedly prescribed narcotics too freely, while others issued them to patients who turned out to be dealers or addicts. More than 450 doctors have been prosecuted on charges ranging from illegal prescribing and drug trafficking to manslaughter and murder...
...bureau is "concerned the cell may be in contact with individuals here in the U.S. We are concerned there may be copycats." Finding them won't be easy. The London bombers were what law-enforcement officials call "cleanskins" - people with little or nothing on their records to raise suspicion. How investigators managed to unravel some of the main elements of the London plot last week is the story of advanced forensics and furious, old-fashioned legwork involving thousands of police, security and intelligence officials. It is from these clues that investigators are racing to assemble a picture...
...integrated boy of Moroccan descent," revert to such radicalism? Lots of explanations were offered at the trial. The timing of his religious revival coincided with his mother's death. Bouyeri was also in close contact with a group of Islamic radicals, many of whom are now in jail on suspicion of terrorist activities. But all this seemed to leave the suspect unfazed. As Bouyeri told the judges: "You can send in all your psychologists, psychiatrists and experts. You will never understand this, you cannot understand...