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...busy time in the war on terror. German police last week announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Iraqi, identified only as Mohammed L. He is suspected of having dispatched a dozen locally recruited radicals from Germany to Iraq to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. troops; four men were arrested on similar charges in Italy and Germany the week before. Syria handed over 22 suspects sought by Turkey in connection with the November Istanbul terror blasts. French police rounded up four people accused of assisting an al-Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France...
...This was dangerous information. As a law professor and activist, Ebadi understood the risks; she could be dragged off to jail by the Islamic regime, or assaulted herself. "Fear, like hunger, is an instinct," she says. "It comes whether you like it or not." But when the moment of terror came, Ebadi, typically, was not worrying about her own well-being. She was more concerned about her family's reaction than what she might face in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. So instead of waiting for agents to knock on her door, she told her husband and two children that...
...MEANWHILE IN AUSTRIA ... Hell's Bells Playing Christmas carols in shops during the festive season is tantamount to "psychological terror" for store workers, according to a study by an Austrian trade union. By the time the big day arrives, the study says, hours of listening to piped carols such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night will have made many store workers aggressive and confrontational. The union wants shops to limit the number of hours per day the music is played, and restrict it to areas where Christmas gifts are being sold...
While the U.S. and its allies have dithered for months over whether to deploy more troops outside Kabul, Afghanistan's countless warlords have established a reign of terror in the nation's small towns and rural areas. At the same time, a recrudescent Taliban, aided by its al-Qaeda allies, has stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and reconstruction efforts in southern and eastern regions of the country, assassinating 13 aid workers since May. The latest, a French U.N. employee, was shot in the face and killed early last week by suspected Taliban gunmen in the southern town of Ghazni...
...course, I will give Generation X credit where credit is due. Some audience members asked hard-hitting questions about the economy, civil rights, the war on terror and nuclear weapons. These thoughtful questions showed that many young Americans care about the future of their country and have invested themselves in the outcome of the 2004 presidential election...