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...very different sentiment is aired nearby in the mainly Sunni district of Tarek Jdeide, where a group of laughing young men chant crude insults at Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's charismatic leader. "If the Shi'ites topple the government, Hizballah will take power and we will have a Shi'ite state, but we won't let that happen," says Yussef Beydoun, 21. "Tarek Jdeide will continue to be a citadel of resilience against the Shi'ites...
...Although a Shi'ite, Mahmoud lived in the Sunni neighborhood of Tarek Jdeide. While mourning pictures of Mahmoud plaster the ochre-colored wall of his simple two-story home, most of the drab apartment buildings and storefronts carry posters of slain prime minister Rafik Hariri or of his son, Saad, displaying their allegiance the Sunni political leadership. Mahmoud was killed on his way home from a mass sit-in downtown, where tens of thousands had demanded the ouster of the government...
...Tarek Hassan, the owner of the Tannery, said his business had increased 10 percent since last year because of the popularity of Arches and sneakers...
...EUROPEAN UNION The Net Tightens Luck finally ran out for Tarek Maaroufi when Belgian police arrested the terror suspect on evidence he engaged in logistical and recruiting work for al-Qaeda. Maaroufi had avoided arrest despite being repeatedly implicated in recent inquiries. Italy linked Maaroufi to an al-Qaeda cell in Milan that was planning attacks on France, and his name surfaced in several Belgian investigations. Authorities in Brussels finally obtained sufficient evidence to arrest him on charges of membership of a terrorist organization and recruiting for a foreign army, which is illegal in Belgium. Meanwhile, in Britain, police took...
...against those successes in cross-border teamwork, however, are some fairly spectacular instances of how the European Union?s vaunted freedom of movement has far outpaced judicial cooperation. After the first arrests in Milan last April, Italian prosecutor Dambruoso issued a warrant for another figure associated with the cell, Tarek Maaroufi, referred to in Italian court papers as one of the "spiritual heads of the Salafist Group with a basic function of indoctrinating recruits." But Maaroufi lives in Belgium as a Belgian citizen, and no European Union country extradites its own citizens. The Belgian authorities contend that the Italians have...