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...predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood of Kasra are unlikely to herald a return to the bad old days, according to security officials. Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, they say, have been severely weakened and are merely shadows of their former selves, too hamstrung to conduct extended campaigns of terror. (See pictures of Iraq's attempts to restore normalcy...
Despite some criticism of the government, the police, and its anti-terror division in particular, have been widely praised for preventing further attacks since 2005, when a second round of suicide bombings in Bali killed 20 people. Dozens of militants suspected of having ties to Jemaah Islamiah, the Al Qaeda-linked organization behind the Bali bombings, have been killed or detained. The hope is that Sunday's executions will discourage other would-be terrorists...
...questions that these exhibits continue to raise is, How was this possible in a democracy? Why didn't the fire department put out the fires?" says Andreas Nachama, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation, an independent research foundation that is sponsoring the Kristallnacht exhibit. The mass-circulation Bild newspaper set aside its usual fare of crime and sports to show one of Berlin's largest synagogues in flames under the headline "The Night that the Synagogues Burned!" while German TV is carrying documentaries about the pogrom...
...performed by the philharmonic chamber orchestra. The mayor will accompany a ceremonial procession from the old city hall in Alexanderplatz in former East Berlin to the so-called new synagogue in the center of the city, where an exhibit of rare photographs of the event entitled "Fire! Anti-Jewish Terror on Kristallnacht" is being shown...
...Central Europe to maintain the memory of the Holocaust in the minds of a new generation of Germans by personalizing the events rather than relying on cold statistics. Schools in Germany, for example, have experimented with a cartoon depiction of a young Jewish girl caught in the Nazi terror to bring the experience to life for students. And an extensive online archive featuring thousands of photographs and more than 1,350 interviews with elderly Jews still living in Central Europe, recently unveiled by a Vienna-based organization known as Centropa, is being used as a teaching aid in Austrian-German...