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...Journal published an astonishing tale. Journal reporters in Kabul purchased a secondhand computer whose hard drive contained thousands of files written by al-Qaeda members. One file was a detailed account of the travels last summer of "Abdul Ra'uff," who flew from the Netherlands to Israel, Egypt and Turkey scouting locations for terrorist attacks. Abdul Ra'uff's itinerary matched one known to have been taken at the same time by Reid. FBI analysts now firmly believe that Reid and Ra'uff are the same man. Moreover, in the past two weeks, European investigators have linked Reid to some...
...strike began in opposition to the proposed transfer of prisoners accused or convicted under Turkey's antiterrorism law from large, dormitory-style facilities to new single- or triple-bunk cells. The authorities reasoned that they could better maintain order and discipline by reducing the exposure of supporters of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front - known as the DHKP/C - to other inmates and to each other. However, the prisoners expressed fear of being moved to smaller cells, even in new, more comfortable buildings. The relative isolation, they argued, would leave them at the mercy of their jailers, who could more easily...
...upward and no resolution in sight, the government ponders its options as it continues to pursue reforms that it hopes will please the E.U. "People don't have a right to die," says Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk, who is responsible for the country's prisons. Like many in Turkey, he sees the hunger strikes themselves as a kind of terror...
...most freedom-of-expression cases, the alleged offense was more flagrant than the Chomsky text that propelled Tas into court. In that March 2001 lecture, entitled "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" and delivered in Toledo, Ohio, the U.S. academic referred to Turkey's crackdown on its Kurdish population as "one of the most severe human-rights atrocities of the 1990s, continuing in fact." Chomsky also laid much of the blame for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds and the destruction of their villages - in "massive ethnic cleansing" - at the feet of the U.S., which provided Turkey...
With the world's television cameras trained on them as their country hosted the forum on harmony among civilizations, the three-man state-security tribunal accepted Tas' defense - that he had intended only to "contribute to academic debate." In Turkey, that is no small victory...