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...large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand in 2003 and is in U.S. custody.) As J.I.'s chief strategist, and as a charismatic recruiter, Nurdin is more dangerous than Azahari, says Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the International Crisis Group. What's more, adds terrorism expert Zachary Abuza of the United States Institute...
...Sukham Panjoy, a resident of Chiang Mai who had reportedly seen local media coverage of Jenkins' life story, declared that the woman in the photo was his younger sister, Anocha, who disappeared from Macau 27 years ago. These revelations have caused a storm of anger against North Korea in Thailand and sparked concerns that there may have been more Thai abductees. In a meeting with Thai officials last week, however, North Korean envoys denied that anyone by Panjoy's name or description had been kidnapped or had ever lived in North Korea...
...angioplasties. By last year, any physical effort brought on chest pains - even taking a shower left him exhausted. After his doctors told him there was nothing more they could do, Grinstead turned to the Internet for ideas. Countless searches and phone calls later, he was on a plane to Thailand in a quest for the Holy Grail of 21st century medicine: stem-cell therapy. Today, eight months after having stem cells injected into one of his coronary arteries, Grinstead's heart is operating more efficiently and he's leading a life his U.S. doctors thought impossible...
...angioplasties. By last year, any physical effort brought on chest pains?even taking a shower left him exhausted. After his doctors told him there was nothing more they could do, Grinstead turned to the Internet for ideas. Countless searches and phone calls later, he was on a plane to Thailand in a quest for the Holy Grail of 21st century medicine: stem-cell therapy. Today, eight months after having stem cells injected into one of his coronary arteries, Grinstead's heart is operating more efficiently and he's leading a life his U.S. doctors thought impossible...
...practices of “extraordinary rendition,” the outsourcing of torture practices to Syria, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt—all of which have been cited for human-rights violations by the State Department. A corollary to this practice is CIA operated secret prisons in Thailand and Eastern Europe, as recently reported by Dana Priest in The Washington Post. Such forays into ethically murky territory—to say the least—do no small harm to U.S. credibility abroad. On Jan. 27, President Bush assured us that “torture is never acceptable...