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...increasingly isolated Maskhadov had seen many of his closest allies either die or give up. He occasionally met with radical guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev, the man behind terrorist atrocities like the Moscow theater siege in October 2002 and the Beslan school massacre last September. But Maskhadov rejected Basayev's terror tactics, and Basayev despised Maskhadov's calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet...
...forgiving mood, despite the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing. But so far that doesn't extend to the inmates of Block 8. "These are the hard cases," says Colonel Ofer Lefler, an Israel Prison Service official. When Israel makes an occasional early release of prisoners involved in terrorism, 48% are later reconvicted of terror attacks, according to a senior Israeli security official. Israel released 500 Palestinian prisoners last month, and Abbas persuaded Israel's Defense Minister last week to prepare the release of another 400. But most of them were serving short sentences and none participated in terror attacks that...
Saturday, Mar. 12. Ungerman & Brohy’s The Oil Factors Behind the War on Terror (U.S., 2004). 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...
After showcasing some of his older work, Rees read from the first set of “Get Your War On” strips he ever published, taking aim at Bush’s war on terror...
...CONVICTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the Bali nightclub bombings in October 2002 that killed 202 people, by a five-judge panel, in Jakarta. Abubakar was, at the same time, cleared of terror charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charges of directing the Bali attack. Sen-tenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months...