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I know to take death threats seriously. My home was under special police watch during part of my 14 years as a U.S. Congressman. Eventually, a man went to prison for threatening to kill and dismember me because I opposed the legalization of marijuana.
"This is a new and interesting twist in a long, bizarre and extremely worrying saga," says Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. Gao says he is now living on Wutai Mountain, the site of several dozen monasteries in China's central Shanxi province...
There may be more to Hekmatyar's outreach than simply a whipping at the hands of the Taliban in Baghlan. The warlord has kept close ties with Pakistan spy agency the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ever since he was the main recipient of the CIA and Saudi aid...
"Where is he? Under what kind of circumstances is he? Is he in jail? Is he in prison? Is he under some sort of house arrest?" asks Kine, the human-rights researcher. "It is a relief to learn that Gao Zhisheng appears to be alive and healthy enough to talk...
The site of the second attack, which came within 40 minutes of the first, was the Park Kultury metro station, a few miles southwest of Lubyanka Square. The entryway to the station was filled on Monday morning with the smell of char rising up from the deep tunnels. An ambulance...