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...eight-hour standoff and left at least 12 people dead. In telephone interviews with Pakistani news agencies, Mehsud also promised to "amaze everyone in the world" with an attack on Washington as revenge for U.S. missile strikes on militant bases along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The FBI painted the threat as purely aspirational, pointing out that Mehsud had made similar comments before. Still, the attack comes less than a month after a deadly assault on the visiting Sri Lankan national cricket team in Lahore; analysts are concerned about increased coordination among al-Qaeda, Taliban and other extremist forces...
...President Obama sees the large and painful rift that developed between the U.S. and the Muslim world during the Bush presidency as damaging to the world and as a threat to American security," says Hady Amr, director of the Brookings Center in Doha, Qatar. "Obama seeks to be a transformative figure in healing the rift between the U.S. and the Muslim world and is harnessing his personal history - as an America born to an immigrant Muslim father from one part of the world, who spent part of his childhood growing up in another part of the Muslim world...
...cannot allow such a threat to become a reality through cosmetic selection. The dangers of prejudice still exist, and the effects of such arbitrary discrimination will be devastating now unless we take action. With the proliferation of cosmetic selection, certain characteristics that can be associated with different races would also be associated with different social classes, and parents would have the ability to choose from these socially stigmatized characteristics...
...usual Saturday morning bustle of Harvard Square was disrupted when Cambridge Police and the Cambridge bomb squad swarmed the area in response to a bomb threat. Police closed down Massachusetts Avenue, the Harvard Square MBTA stop, and several nearby Square businesses. “Where the T stop was, there must have been like eight or 10 SWAT cars and a big squad car parked there,” said Pierce E. Tria ’10. Tria said he saw Harvard and Cambridge police officers cordoning off Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets. The scare was precipitated by a call...
...Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. "Prabhakaran will stay back and fight until death," says Gunaratna, who has written extensively about the Tigers. At an April 2002 press conference, during the cease-fire, the Tiger leader said he had advised his aides to kill him if there were ever a threat of capture. Recently there have been intelligence reports that he had advised his cadres to burn his body and not allow it to be discovered by government forces, but Prabhakaran's intentions - let alone his whereabouts - are difficult to determine. "He rarely allows anyone other than his trusted lieutenants...